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What is Passivation, and Do My Products Need It?
From: Vulcan Spring & Mfg. Co.Description: Passivation is a process by which stainless steel can be protected from corrosion by an added layer of oxidation to its outer surface. Although some stainless steel product specifications call for ...
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What to Know About Septa
Description: By definition, a rubber septum consists of a disk of rubber or similar material used to seal a vial or other device. It is installed along the inside of a cap, which is typically made of metal or ...
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What is the Difference Between a Metal Seal and a Rubber Seal?
Description: With ever more stringent pollution and leakage legislation, plus the demand for greater efficiency and lifetime reliability, metal seals provide the highest reliability sealing solutions for today's ...
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Wind Energy Generation ยป Rotor - Bearings and Components
Description: Sub-systems within the Rotor ...
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Metal Ring Seals: Application in MAN ES Marine Propulsion Systems
Description: MAN Energy Solutions SE is a global leading company based in Germany that provides energy system solution, large-bore diesel engines and turbomachinery for marine and stationary applications. With the ...
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Boyd's Essential Sealing, Thermal, and Protection Solutions in the Fight Against COVID-19
From: Boyd CorporationDescription: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate, the world is faced with new challenges each to combat and overcome the virus. With each rising challenge, companies are coming together to rapidly ...
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What is a Friction Hinge?
From: TorqMaster InternationalDescription: A friction hinge, or torque hinge, is a specialty hinge that gives resistance to the pivoting motion. They are typically used to control motion or hold a pivoting object opened or closed. The most ...
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Metal Seal Best Practice: Sealing in High Temperature or High Pressure
Description: Nowadays, More and more industry applications are involved with high temperature, high pressure, or vacuum. Customers who is new to metal seal always have a concern if metal seals can really achieve ...
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SPACE | CRYOGENIC FLUID SAFE-SHEAR™ BURST DISCS
From: Technetics GroupDescription: Cryogenic fluid management is the foundation for current and future space programs. The availability of these propulsive fluids at launch, in orbital depots, and on the lunar surface is essential for ...
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Top 5 Mistakes in Choosing and Using Linear Guides
Description: Linear guides are precision mechanical assemblies that operate as part of a system. As such, they can only perform to the degree that they are properly integrated into the overall machine. Merely ...
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Advantages of Metal Seal Rings
Description: The most extreme environments demand metal seal sealing solutions. Resilient metal seals meet the challenges of high temperatures or cryogenics, high pressures or high vacuum, corrosive chemicals and ...
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The Characteristics of Metal C Ring and Its Application in Vacuum System
Description: 1. The common metal C-shaped sealing ring is made of stainless steel wire, does not contain any rubber components, and has strong usage characteristics. Generally, it can maintain normal working ...
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8 Questions for Selecting a Best-fit Metal Seal
Description: Metal Seal is a special seal for extreme working conditions, which can be applied in high temperature, high pressure, special medium, or combinations. Different applications need different types of ...
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Thinking Outside the Circle, Applying Tribology to Improve System Performance
From: GGBDescription: Bearings are among the most critical components in a mechanical assembly, but are often one of the latest design components selected. However, one important aspect is frequently not considered - ...
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Self-Sealing Nuts Engineering
Description: Ordinary nuts and plugs lack adequate seal technology and allow external/internal pressure and contaminants to damage the integrity of the enclosure, and therefore your device. ...
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C-Seal Design Guide
From: JETSEAL, Inc.Description: C-Seals are available in various diameters, cross-sections, and noncircular shapes. JETSEAL's cross-sections are not limited to those shown in the following tables. An additional version of the ...
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E-Seal Design Guide
From: JETSEAL, Inc.Description: E-Seals are available in various diameters, cross-sections, and noncircular shapes. JETSEAL's E-Seal cross-sections are not limited to those shown in the following tables. E-Seals are produced in ...
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Omega Seal Design Guide
From: JETSEAL, Inc.Description: Omega Seals are available in various diameters and cross-sections. JETSEAL's cross-sections are not limited to those shown in the following tables. Our application engineers will work with you and ...
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V-Seal Design Guide
From: JETSEAL, Inc.Description: V-Seals are available in various diameters and cross-sections. JETSEAL's cross-sections are not limited to those shown in the following tables. Our application engineers will work with you and your ...
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Benefits of Working with a One-Stop-Shop Manufacturer
From: APM Hexseal Corp.Description: In order to fabricate custom sealing components, many industry professionals must closely coordinate with each other throughout every step of the process. During the course of a project, you are ...
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O-Ring Failure Modes: Explosive Decompression
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: While O-ring designs are meant to withstand outside influences within the application environment in which they are used, failure is still possible. In this piece, we highlight explosive ...
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O-Ring Failure Modes: Extrusion Damage
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: Extrusion damage failures often occur in dynamic applications such as hydraulic controlled rod and piston seals. These can also occur in static applications when seals are subjected to high-pressure ...
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O-Ring Failure Modes: Heat Hardening & Oxidation Damage
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: Hardening and oxidation occur when the part is exposed to high temperatures for an extended period of time, causing plasticizer volatilization and oxidative cracking. As the O-ring material hardens, ...
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O-Ring Failure Modes: Spiral Failure
From: Zatkoff Seals & PackingsDescription: Spiral twist failure is often found on long stroke, hydraulic piston seals. It's rare, yet possible, for spiral twist failures to occur on rod seals. ...
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Preventing Gasket Failure Part 1: Compression Set
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Foam gaskets are small but mighty. They reduce noise, vibration, and harshness. They cushion against shock. They seal out elements. They insulate against heat and sound. In short, they play a critical ...
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Feltmetal™: Adaptable Abradable Materials
From: Technetics GroupDescription: This paper describes the ways in which abradables provide for a range of seal properties by adapting the metallic alloy or the metal matrix composite (MMC) materials and the structure to specific ...
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Technetics Class 100 Cleanroom and Commitment to Cleanliness Elevates Quality, Performance
From: Technetics GroupDescription: The semiconductor, aerospace and other industries that require machined plastics have strict guidelines regarding purity. Without a strategic focus on material purity, achieved through the use of ...
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Technetics Supports ITER; Reshaping Energy Production for the Future
From: Technetics GroupDescription: The world depends on energy. It has since the dawn of time, and how we capture energy is always changing and evolving. ITER Seeks to Redefine Energy Production ...
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The Benefits of High-Performance Metallic Seals in Critical Applications
From: Technetics GroupDescription: Failure is not an option in the most demanding sealing applications. Valves continually strain the capabilities of sealing solutions, and elastomer solutions are often not enough. The unparalleled ...
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Accuride in Action: Elevating Home Kitchens with Gorenje Appliances
Description: Are you thinking about upgrading your oven? Thanks to Accuride telescopic slides, which provide enhanced safety and increased usability, the Gorenje combination steam oven presents an appetizing ...
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Acrylic Foam Tapes - An Alternative to Mechanical Fasteners
From: JBC Technologies, Inc.Description: Consumer demand for interconnected, high performing devices, cars, and home appliances that are also sleek, lightweight, and quiet continues to grow worldwide. In order to keep up with consumer ...
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How to Calculate Torque to Tighten Bolts
From: American BellevilleDescription: You must know how to calculate torque for tightening bolts to ensure that your application is functional and safe. Errors in torque calculation can result in expensive failure, including the time and ...
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Design Considerations for High-Temperature Sealing
From: Technetics GroupDescription: With growing pressure to combat fugitive emissions and meet strict industry regulations, understanding the latest sealing technologies and design considerations for component solutions in severe ...
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Fabricated Parts for Air Infiltration Sealing
Description: Air leakage control is a critical activity for a wide spectrum of businesses. Contractors may be tasked with sealing building envelopes to prevent heat loss, thus energy wastage. ...
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The Bearing Glossary to End All Bearing Glossaries
From: Alpine Bearing, Inc.Description: Bearing Glossary (in case you forgot) ...
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The Advantages of Sealed Bearings
From: DieQua CorporationDescription: Sealed bearings are preferred over the unsealed alternative, but why is that? Why should sealed bearings be considered over unsealed bearings? What are the benefits of sealed ball bearings? ...
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Secured with ZAGO Sealing Screws, Tracetag from Triax Enables Employers to Monitor Workplace Social Distancing; Contact Tracing
Description: To ensure the TraceTag performs under harsh environmental conditions, its exterior perimeter is sealed with ZAGO high-tech sealing screws. Unlike ordinary screws, ZAGO sealing screws are engineered ...
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PUR-GARD™ FDA Compliant Seals
From: Web Seal Inc.Description: Garlock's PUR-GARD™ FDA compliant seals for food and beverage processing plants ensure contamination protection from daily wash downs, high-pressure spray, and dust particulate. The unique ...
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Sealing Low-Compressive Loads with Multi-Swell™ Style 3760
From: Web Seal Inc.Description: When you can't get an effective seal because the compressive load on a gasket is too low, or because the flanges aren't rigid enough to compress standard gasketing material in the areas between bolts, ...
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Chassis Parts Line: Malfunction of the Screw Processing Decreased (Page 2)
From: Takachiho America, Inc.Description: Introduction information, problem and effectiveness and flow chart information regarding chassis parts lines ...
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Chassis Parts Line: ZERO Defective Parts Processing from Sludge Affecting Tool Performance
From: Takachiho America, Inc.Description: Introduction information, problem and effectiveness and flow chart information regarding chassis parts line ...
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Drive System Line: Cost Cut by Washing Degree Improvement
From: Takachiho America, Inc.Description: Introduction information, problem and effectiveness and flow chart information regarding drive system lines ...
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Engine Parts Line: Reduce Running Cost by Improving Filtration Efficiency
From: Takachiho America, Inc.Description: Introduction information, problem and effectiveness and flow chart information regarding engine parts line ...
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Dealing with Pressure
Description: The best possible mechanism to prevent leaks due to pressure, and the infiltration or egression of liquids and gasses, is a fastener with an O-ring and a groove ...
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Engineering a Difference
Description: In DiscoverE's first-ever Global Engineer Survey 2 (released 2019) out of 2,882 engineers surveyed, engineers rank environmental issues-such as access to clean water and sanitation and economical ...
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Hack the Crisis: An Interview with the CEO of ZAGO Manufacturing
Description: As the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic continues, several manufacturers are still operating and deemed essential for supplying critical components. ...
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What are Sealing Fasteners?
Description: Sealing fasteners are highly specialized fasteners that include sealing screws, sealing nuts, sealing bolts and sealing washers. Unlike ordinary fasteners, sealing fasteners are configured with a ...
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What Size is that O-Ring?
Description: How we determine the size of the o-ring ...
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ZAGO Sealing Hardware Protects Data Centers from Environmental Threats
Description: High tech companies in the US and overseas are discovering that ordinary fasteners are not sufficient to protect high value assets ...
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ZAGO Self Sealing Fasteners Optimize NEMA Enclosures
Description: ZAGO's fasteners are perfectly suited to meet the requirements of NEMA enclosures as well as the standards of the IEC ...
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ZAGO Self-Sealing Fasteners Take a Deep Dive
Description: Manufacturers of subsea products have learned that using ordinary fasteners on robotics and sophisticated machinery intended for the ocean depths is hazardous. ...
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Industrial Gas Springs Help Intensive Care Teams Fight COVID-19
From: ACE Controls Inc.Description: As Wuhan, China became the first metropolis to confront the fast-spreading SARS-CoV-2 virus, crisis managers desperately needed equipment, including mobile X-ray machines. These devices would provide ...
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Shock Absorbers Solve Balance-Testing Bottlenecks for Fan Manufacturer
From: ACE Controls Inc.Description: When you want to put a rotating part through its paces, detecting unwanted vibration will often be part of the test regimen. In recent years, the process of testing and balancing rotating parts, has ...
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Quarter-Turn Fasteners Case Study
From: Imao-FixtureworksDescription: Toyokawa highly esteems the quick & easy operation of IMAO's tool-less clamps, wide variation of line ups and their ready availability of IMAO's standard products as a manufacturer of standard machine ...
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Roller Upgrade System Eliminates "Maintenance Nightmare" at Beverage Bottling Facility
From: Rexnord CorporationDescription: A beverage bottling manufacturer was using 11 roller conveyors on a packaging line to transport bottled containers in cardboard flats from a case packaging machine to a shrink wrapping machine. Over ...
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Soda Manufacturer Drinks in Savings of $73k with Roller Upgrade System
From: Rexnord CorporationDescription: A global leader in the beverage industry was conveying containers of cans and two-liter bottles of soda over four powered roller conveyors. By installing the Roller Upgrade System, the soft drink ...
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Whitepaper: Spiral Conveyor Systems
From: Rexnord CorporationDescription: Spiral conveyor systems are a great way to increase throughput and optimize floor space. How do you know which one is right for your operation? ...
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Wine Company Toasts Savings of 78% with Roller Upgrade System
From: Rexnord CorporationDescription: One of the largest U.S. suppliers of wine was using a powered roller conveyor to move empty boxes to its packaging conveyor, where glass bottles of some of the most popular brands of wine were ...
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Quarter-Turn Fastener Reduced Fixture Changeover Time by Half!
From: Imao-FixtureworksDescription: Toyokawa Engineering manufactures testing equipment for automotive parts and they use IMAO's Quarter Turn Clamps on the fixtures in their equipment. ...
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What's the Difference Between a Gasket and a Seal?
Description: It is a common misconception that gaskets and seals are the same thing. While it is true they perform similar functions in preventing leaks, gaskets and seals have distinct applications. ...
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5 Great Reasons to Use Coiling Springs
Description: Coiling Technologies Inc. is part of the essential critical infrastructure workforce as we produce products for the US Government and we must maintain normal operations under the current COVID 19 ...
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Choosing Your O-Ring Material
Description: When choosing an O-ring there are several factors to consider in determining proper selection ...
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Clearance Hole Data
Description: For optimal seal screw performance, we recommend creating a clearance gap in the panel, into which the O-ring can be fitted ...
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Dimensional Tables
Description: Dimensional Tables ...
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Installation and Torque
Description: With respect to installation and torque, there are three important design calculations ...
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It Takes A Village: Ventec Life Systems and GM Thank Suppliers for Role in Manufacturing Medical Ventilators
Description: ZAGO is extremely proud to play a role in manufacturing air-tight sealing screws with FDA-grade O-rings for accelerated production of Ventec pneumatic medical ventilators during COVID-19. Check out ...
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Marketing TECHniques: Want to be Different from your Competitors? Consider Purpose-Driven Marketing
Description: While business leaders generally understand the value of sharing and upholding their mission and vision with their stakeholders, there is a third component that is often overlooked and necessary for ...
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Pro-Tips for Choosing Screw Material
Description: When considering the choice of material there are certain variables that need to be taken into consideration. Proper material selection is based upon 5 important criteria ...
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Sealing Screws Engineering
Description: Fasteners Types ...
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Small Components Making Big Impact Featured on 60 Minutes
Description: While watching a 60 Minutes segment on Ford and GM joining the fight against COVID-19, Ms. Friedberg-Rottenstrich came upon an interview with Tracy Streeter, a longtime GM fork lift operator. Turns ...
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Special Rings: Self-Locking, Balanced, and ID/OD Lock
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley Spirolox Retaining Rings are the trusted industry solution because of their unique configuration, reliability, and convenience across thousands of applications. While we have five standard ...
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Lubrication for Linear Motion
Description: Lubrication plays a critical role in extending the life of mechanical equipment. With that said, there are many issues related to the application and use of lubrication in mechanical systems. In ...
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5-Minute Crash Course in Shock Analysis
Description: How do we summarize shock analysis in less than 1 sentence? ...
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Shock Analysis: Response Spectrum (SRS), Pseudo Velocity & Severity
Description: Many people jump to comparing the peak acceleration value which we'll prove is not only inadequate but often misleading. But there is a way to summarize a shock event into a single metric that ...
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ACE Gas Springs Come to the Rescue of an Emergency Helicopter Operator
From: ACE Controls Inc.Description: During helicopter rescue missions, speed is critical. Rescuers can't afford to be slowed down by doors that don't open and close easily. And when the doors are easier to use, their faster action makes ...
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Air Springs Keep High-Fidelity Sounds Pure
From: ACE Controls Inc.Description: BaiRuiKe Technology serves some of the most exacting customers around - audiophiles. The maker of high-quality tube amplifiers and related components regularly hosts visitors from around the world at ...
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Can a Bearing be Used for Both Linear and Rotational Motion?
Description: Can a bearing be used for both Linear and Rotational motion? A bearing or bushing can be used for linear or rotational motion. While most bearings and bushings are designed for only one type of ...
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The Basics of Crossed Roller Bearings
Description: The Basics of Crossed Roller Bearings Crossed roller bearings provide more accuracy, rigidity, and weight-bearing capacity for linear motion than other commonly used friction-reducing devices such as ...
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Canned Magnetic Bearings Achieve 99.9% Availability
From: Waukesha BearingsDescription: In 2002, a leading oil & gas customer approached Waukesha Magnetic Bearings with the challenge of developing a bearing for a hermetically sealed integral motor compressor. Availability and reliability ...
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Press-in-Place Seals (PiP) | Drop-in-Place Seals
From: Web Seal Inc.Description: Press-in-Place (PiP) or "drop-in-place" seals are static seals that overcome installation issues and sealing performance problems common with many typical face seal products, such as an O-ring. A ...
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Why Use Sealing Hardware?
From: APM Hexseal Corp.Description: In the industrial sector, sealing hardware plays a critical role in ensuring components are securely fastened within a system and preventing contaminants-such as liquids and gases-from moving through ...
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Ask the Expert - Tensile Strength vs. Hardness: Importance for Wave Spring and Retaining Ring Design
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert blog. The blog is designed to help educate you on all things retaining rings and wave springs. This week, we talk about tensile strength and why it's important in ...
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Retaining Ring Types and Selection
From: SmalleyDescription: 1. Why are there so many different types of retaining and constant section (snap) rings? 2. What type of retaining ring should I use for my application? This blog covers the main types of retaining ...
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Smalley Spirolox® Retaining Ring vs. Stamped Circlip
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley remains open and operational at all of our global facilities. Smalley continues to urgently provide the products and engineering expertise needed to support our current and new customers, ...
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What is a Retaining Ring? Smalley's Retaining Ring Overview
From: SmalleyDescription: Nails, screws, nuts, bolts, pins- the list goes on. What do these all have in common? They hold things together. When you staple a piece of paper or hang a painting on a wall, you're joining two ...
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Roller Upgrade System Eliminates "Maintenance Nightmare" at Beverage Bottling Facility
Description: A beverage bottling manufacturer was using 11 roller conveyors on a packaging line to transport bottled containers in cardboard flats from a case packaging machine to a shrink wrapping machine. Over ...
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Soda Manufacturer Drinks in Savings of $73k with Roller Upgrade System
Description: A global leader in the beverage industry was conveying containers of cans and two-liter bottles of soda over four powered roller conveyors. By installing the Roller Upgrade System, the soft drink ...
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Wine Company Toasts Savings of 78% with Roller Upgrade System
Description: One of the largest U.S. suppliers of wine was using a powered roller conveyor to move empty boxes to its packaging conveyor, where glass bottles of some of the most popular brands of wine were ...
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RoHS Compliance for Fasteners: What It Is, Why It Matters
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Everyday fasteners and fasteners are being tightened and torqued into a wide range of manufactured products, like electronics, medical devices, automobiles, air crafts and more. One item that can ...
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Specify a Torque & Tightening Sequence for Critical Fastening Joints
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: These general guidelines are to help identify potential pitfalls relating to the tightening of bolted joints. ...
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Techniques to Reduce Joint Relaxation in Fastened Joints
From: Mountz, Inc.Description: Joint relaxation occurs to some extent in all fastened joints. There are techniques that can be used to help resolve any "joint relaxation" from incurring during fastening process. ...
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Can a Spherical Bearing be Used in High Misalignment and High Load Conditions?
From: GGBDescription: Spherical bearings are also referred to as spherical plain bearings, spherical ball bearings or ball bushings. ...
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Glossary of Bearing Types
From: GGBDescription: Glossary of bearing types ...
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PyroSlide™1100 & the Indian Market
From: GGBDescription: Mahesh Thangamani, GGB India Sales Manager, was interviewed by MotorIndia magazine. In the article published on 17 March, Mahesh provides details about PyroSlide™1100, GGB High Temperature ...
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What are Cylindrical Bearings and How are They Used?
From: GGBDescription: Plain cylindrical bearings are made to handle heavier loads and higher speeds than ball bearings and cylindrical roller bearings, both of which are bearings with rolling elements. This is because ...
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What are Flange Bearings?
From: GGBDescription: Flange bearings consist of a cylindrical body with a flange at one end. These bearings are capable of supporting radial loads as well as light axial loads due to the flange providing a thrust surface. ...
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What are Plain Bearings?
From: GGBDescription: Plain bearings, also referred to as bushes, bushings or sleeve bearings, are cylindrical shaped and have no moving parts. ...
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What are Radial and Axial Bearings?
From: GGBDescription: Back to FAQ While all ball bearings reduce rotational friction, some high precision bearings are specially manufactured to withstand support loads, or bearing loads, in various directions. Two ...
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What are the Differences between Plain Bearings and Roller Bearings?
From: GGBDescription: Plain bearings, also referred to as bushings, sleeve bearings, solid bearings, shaft bearings, or journal bearings, are differentiated from roller bearings by the fact that plain bearings have no ...
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What are Thrust Washers?
From: GGBDescription: Thrust washers, also referred to as thrust bearings or thrust plates, are flat, disk-shaped bearings that are made of either metal-polymer or fiber reinforced composite material. ...