Mechanical Components Reference Materials

Description: Are you looking for a more stylish appearance for your hinge knuckles? Is your hinge length not a multiple of the knuckle length? Then you may want to look at having the hinge cut with balanced ends. ...

Description: While probably everyone has some sort of conception of what is considered a fastener, the actual technical definition, pun intended, can be difficult to completely nail down. Quite simply, a fastener ...

Description: We've put together a series of informational articles to highlight bearing types, terminology, and components. In this segment of Bearings 101, we focus on machine tool spindle bearings. ...

Description: The aerospace market has been using Qualiseal’s Non-contacting Lift Off Seals for decades. Since the 1990s, they have increasingly found their way into aerospace applications for their ...

Description: WHY TECHNETICS HELICOFLEX® DELTA SEAL WAS THE PERFECT MATCH FOR BERKLEY NATIONAL LABORATORY ...

Description: Are you looking for custom hinge leaves? Guden can supply unequal leaves, bends, holes slots, and an assortment of customizations to any hinge leaf or leaves. ...

Description: Leaf swaging is the process of changing the plane of one or both of the hinge leaves. ...

Description: Rotary bearings are machine elements that support rotating shafts accurately while providing low friction conditions. In order to maintain a stable bearing performance over a prolonged duration, ...

Description: An unbalanced shear is the same slicing operation as a standard shear, but the overall length is not a full multiple of the knuckle length. If you are trying to achieve a length that would call for ...

Description: If at all possible, mount your gas spring with the tube higher than the rod for a longer life and better workability. ...

Description: Does your application require your hinge leaves to be more than just bent at an angle? ...

Description: If a slightly deformed knuckle doesn't bother your application, this would be a cheaper alternative to a saw cut ...

Description: Turbine and generator manufacturers are often confronted with issues related to the project’s specific characteristics, which influences the performance of the bearings used. In fact, some of ...

Description: There is little debate that stainless steel lives up to its namesake. The metal is as strong as traditional steel and retains excellent corrosion resistance over long useful lifetimes. ...

Description: When it comes to manufacturing, two of the primary goals are ease of assembly and efficiency of use, as perfectly embodied by the installation method of our knurled press-fit plungers. Originally ...

Description: A guide and checklist to assist Purchasing and Supply Chain Management Departments on what to look for in their existing and future suppliers to mitigate risk and improve efficiencies. ...

Description: Design engineers are challenged daily to come up with economical designs that reduce weight, size, raw materials, and labor. This competitive mandate affects every facet of the design, including the ...

Description: Flat wire wave springs offer the best balance of size and spring force. here's what you need to know to design these high-performance alternatives to traditional springs. ...

Description: In many applications, flat wire wave springs offer significant advantages over traditional spring designs such as coils and discs. ...

Description: WoodEzine, an outlet specializing in the latest tools and techniques in woodcraft, spotlighted Accuride's latest movement innovation, the 3306DO. ...

Description: Routinely overlooked, the surface coating on a fastener is as important as the underlying fastener material. Fastener threads are manufactured in a cutting or forming machining process, and the ...

Description: LOST FISHING GEAR HURTS LIVELIHOODS, POLLUTES OCEANWATERS ...

Description: Driven by rapid changes and markets, the electronics industry has seen massive growth over the past few decades. The short product life cycle has pushed PCB fabrication technology to its limits. ...

Description: There are lots of hardware choices to keep a door closed, but there are some even better choices to also allow for opening the door. ...

Description: The pin and barrel dimension for a hinge can sometimes be a mistakenly called out, which at times can be confusing. ...

Description: A wooden safety beam, which helps sailors maneuver their ships into a ship lock in the Netherlands, recently cracked after a cargo ship collided with it. But despite some splintered wood, the overall ...

Description: It’s no secret that gas springs are a sensible choice for use with heavy doors or hoods. Typically, users access one side of the device, and then one or two gas springs do the job. However, ...

Description: Sand and dust environments cause serious damage to the operation of vehicles and turbine engines in the form of abrasion and melted silica glaze coatings on turbine parts. ...

Description: First, let's review what pre-assembled screws aka SEMS are. The SEMS name derives from pre-assembled highlighting the letters SEM. Simply put they are bolts that come pre-installed with a washer. The ...

Description: With rotational capacity requirements of modern applications higher than ever, it's challenging to find a retaining ring that can withstand high speeds. Work-around solutions end up needing more ...

Description: Does your hinge require more than just holes or slots? Maybe you're looking to place a hinge around something that doesn't allow your hinge leaf to lay flat? We can easily supply your hinge with cut ...

Description: we design, customize and manufacture Metal Seal products for harsh environments such as extremes of temperature, pressure, media, or combinations of these. Our products are used in a variety of ...

Description: Does your product design require a precise alignment for positive locking to secure or position? Our line of quick release devices (QRD)—more specifically, our quick release plunger ...

Description: Most people are familiar with traditional springs. When they first hear about a wave spring, they may think this is a new innovation. However, wave springs have been around for decades. From everyday ...

Description: Solid Pins are commonly used as permanent fasteners in a wide range of applications. They are retained by the harder Solid Pin displacing material in the softer host component(s). This White Paper ...

Description: Light-Duty Retaining Rings for light loads may be a cost-efficient solution in comparison to snap rings. If you've ever had to hold mating components of assemblies in place, you've probably used a ...

Description: Slotted Spring Pins, sometimes referred to as Roll Pins or Split Pins, are general purpose low cost pins commonly used in various fastening applications. While both SPIROL Standard Slotted Pins and ...

Description: You've all seen holes that have a slight angle to them so a flathead screw can fit snugly and lay flat into the surface of your hinge. These are countersunk holes ...

Description: Slots, also known as obrounds or ovals, need to have a dimension to identify their size just like any other perforation. When dimensioning holes, all is needed is the diameter, but how does one call ...

Description: The pin of the hinge is normally run loose enough for the hinge to turn, but tight enough so that it doesn't just fall out either ...

Description: Spring loaded hinges are available in two styles; spring-loaded-to-open and spring-loaded-to-close. ...

Description: Leveraging the multi-axis alignment features of an industry workhorse ...

Description: Mechanical seals are used for the sealing of rotating shafts against stationary housings, as in pumps, multiport swivels and agitators. The assembly of a mechanical seal is based on two main ...

Description: Thermoplastic use as labyrinth seals in rotating equipment is continuing to gain acceptance in the process industries. Presented in this paper is a discussion on thermoplastic use as a labyrinth seal ...

Description: At Miba, we routinely repair and manufacture sleeve and tilting pad journal bearings for gearboxes. Typically, these gearboxes are single or double helix parallel shaft design and are used as single ...

Description: In a variety of 4-lobe journal bearing applications, hydrostatic lifting is used to prevent damage during the start-up or run-out phase. The design of hydrostatic pockets depends very much on the ...

Description: In high speed, high load fluid-film bearings, the laminar-turbulent flow transition can lead to a considerable reduction of the maximum bearing temperatures, due to a homogenization of the fluid-film ...

Description: Tilting pad journal bearings are used in turbo machines like turbo compressors, turbo gears, gas turbines and steam turbines. By increasing the power density, the applied loads and velocities have ...

Description: In this article, we list the top six questions and answers that we encountered while providing customer support. This article will be very useful if you need to become acquainted with metal ring ...

Description: O-rings play a vital role in sealing fasteners. Sealing fasteners are hardware devices (e.g., sealing bolts, sealing screws, and sealing nuts) used to mechanically join two or more components ...

Description: What is a damper? ...

Description: What are gas springs used for? ...

Description: Here are some important rules about Gas Springs and Dampers ...

Description: What are Hasps and Staples? ...

Description: Learn about the world of hinges with our extensive glossary of hinge terms. ...

Description: Didn't find what you were looking for? Here are a few suggestions: More information about Hinges can be found in the additional questions and answers below or on our Main Hinge page. The Search Box at ...

Description: What kinds of Lift Off hinges are there? ...

Description: What is a spring hinge? ...

Description: Metal Seals are a type of static device that can withstand extreme temperatures, pressures, and vacuums. There is no industry standard for metal seals, and almost every customer must customize their ...

Description: How do we evaluate the validity of the data? We know that all experiments have measurement errors. Some data sets are worse than others. Some may simply be bad and should be discarded. Others may have ...

Description: ABTech Air Bearings are "Orifice Compensated" and float on a specific Air Gap (thickness of air film) and many design aspects revolve around the air gap specification. ...

Description: The selection of the most suitable metal seal is a necessary step for ensuring quality and performance under an assortment of different conditions. For any service condition, there's often a delicate ...

Description: Adhesive selection in high dynamic load environments relies heavily on mechanical adhesive properties, including shear, peel and compressive strength. Over time and in the life a part, fatigue can ...

Description: This article describes the development of metal seal types and explains how your operating conditions determine the metal seal type. ...

Description: Before the use of metal polymer plain bearings, grease was applied to boot, bonnet and door hinges to act as a lubricant between the pin and the housing during the opening and closing of the hinge. ...

Description: Crop sprayers, both self-propelled and trailed, incorporate plain bearings in the pivot joints of the arms to fold and unfold them. ...

Description: Standard wheel-driven tractors and harvesters are available in rubber track versions for better traction in muddy, sandy, soft and slippery terrain. ...

Description: Tamping units are used to tightly pack the irregularly sized stones (or "track ballast") under railway tracks. This process helps support the track's structure and improves durability ...

Description: Non-contact rubber sealed bearings are greased for life with factory controlled volumes. ...

Description: If your equipment is exposed to harsh environments then your equipment is best served and protected by using sealing screws and fasteners. ZAGO's line of self-sealing screws, bolts, and rivets offers ...

Description: Founded in 1947, APM Hexseal has provided environmental sealing solutions for over 70 years. We offer a wide range of innovative sealing products for use in industrial and commercial applications. ...

Description: Most of the sealing rings are designed to be round, and cylinder sealing rings are no exception. and they are often used in large mechanical equipment. However, there are many requirements for the ...

Description: Thermal losses are one of the biggest challenges industrial potlines face due to poor or neglected thermal insulation. ...

Description: Sustainability. Once considered a nice to have in the business, residential and commercial sectors, is now an urgent global imperative for all, and for good reason. ...

Description: Whether enabling the Internet of Things, autonomous vehicles, lights out manufacturing, or electronic devices capturing data from remote locations, turning a physical asset into a digital asset is ...

Description: There is a way to safeguard robots, and the sensors, cameras, and electronic components within them, from breaking down or malfunctioning: sealing them with high-tech sealing fasteners. ...

Description: Demand for sealing fasteners is skyrocketing, and engineers are flocking to this specialty sealing solution. ...

Description: We use silicone masking caps and plugs in our powder coating line. After a few uses the paint builds up and begins to flake off during the subsequent wash cycles, contaminating the finish. How can we ...

Description: We do a great deal to keep ourselves safe - we wear helmets when cycling, we wear boots when its cold and wet out, and we fasten our seatbelts when we're on the road. But are people doing enough to ...

Description: A leading New England firm that manufacturers pizza ovens recently tackled with serious problems that were resolved with the help of ZAGO, a New Jersey-based sealing product manufacturer. ...

Description: Fluid leakage is a significant, time-consuming, and costly problem for engineering teams in most factories. Fluid leakage problems need constant monitoring because they result in raw material and ...

Description: A startling 3 trillion cubic feet of methane gas leaks into the atmosphere every year, which is enough to generate warming power equivalent to that produced by over half of the coal power plants in ...

Description: Shock factor is great in the entertainment world - that is, the shock of a dramatic story, rather than an electrical shock from a microphone. A prominent manufacturer of microphones recently ...

Description: ZAGO Manufacturing Company has grown into a into a reputable global leader, working with European engineers on a wide array of projects that require sealing. It has made an entrance into the European ...

Description: Not long ago, a reputable company that specializes in manufacturing parking revenue systems contacted ZAGO to devise a solution that would prevent rain water from infiltrating into sensitive push ...

Description: Canada's Vision Tech Water was searching for a means to seal its camera cases so that the cameras could function underwater. Who, then, did the company turned to? Vision Tech Water turned to ZAGO, the ...

Description: A magnetic resonance imaging scan, more commonly known as an MRI, is a popular medical procedure that uses a strong magnetic field and radio waves to create detailed images of the organs and tissues ...

Description: Geeplus offers small bistable rotary solenoids and actuators in several types, suited to actuation of small shutter mechanisms. These typically require rotation of a small ‘flag’ to block ...

Description: There are a number of different factors that can influence the choice of a linear solenoid or actuator; the goal of the selection process is to identify the least expensive device that will satisfy ...

Description: Device size is determined for the required force, displacement, and duty cycle from the tables below, more detailed force data is shown graphically in the datasheet for each solenoid. These charts ...

Description: When deciding on a rotary solenoid for an application, there are a number of factors to take into consideration: Size, torque, and angle of rotation are the basics, but it doesn't end there. This ...

Description: The bistable rotary solenoid changes state with the application of a momentary pulse of electricity, and then remains in the changed state without power applied until a further pulse of reverse ...

Description: Whether you’re needing to comply with local code requirements, provide protection at a joint expansion/contractio n point, or protect the environment from accidental chemical seepage, you may ...

Description: In high performance turbomachinery, the maximum bearing temperatures can be a crucial parameter. To increase the operational safety and performance, Miba developed the patent pending eddy groove ...

Description: Miba Industrial Bearings manufactures custom-engineered designs and bearings built to customer prints, but even when asked to build the customer’s design, we may recommend improvements to ...

Description: A regional supplier of USA-made sealing screws played a key role bringing to market a software-driven proximity tracing technology. ...

Description: Torque Magazine analyses the growth of the North American wind energy sector and speaks with Zago and Heico about the challenges this brings to the fastener and fixing industries... ...

Description: As manufacturers across industry sectors pitch in to accelerate production of life-saving ventilator equipment, ZAGO Manufacturing is ready to meet heightened, global demand for its specialty ...

Description: Sealing boots are protective coverings used on mechanical devices, and electrical inputs, to create an airtight seal between the switch and the panel. These help to protect sensitive and expensive ...

Description: It is no secret that the exterior and interior design of vehicles has gone through a multitude of modifications and transformations. As a species, we have seen it all - from the Flintstones ...