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    broke out section depth

    It looks to me like the section is correctly cut at it's centerline as intended. I would guess that the broken out section is simply cutting the material beyond it's limit, i.e. think of doing an excessive blind extrude cut vs. a through all extrude cut. Your property manager shows no...
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    L profile bracket how to find the needed tickness?

    dhengr is spot on with this reply. If these "conceptual" answers aren't immeadiately apparent, I'd be very hesitant to trust my own ANSYS results. In reality this is rather basic algebra, just needs some manipulation to be applied to your application. No worries this isn't a gang up, instead...
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    Hard Coat Anodizing Tapped Holes - Oversized Taps Available?

    We regularly spec anodized threads through our machine shop when we want to electrically isolate or protect from the ocean, and they always come back fitting fine. I simply put "(.005 OVERSIZE)" under my normal UNC-2B, depth, etc. callout. I believe they may be using a high H tap, but in...
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    Sealing surface, surface treatment

    I take it only the outer surface on the cylinder is being coated then? I think your two options here would be a material change (out of curiosty what drove the decision of S355 instead of 316L?) or else trust your zincs to do their jobs as the components will be electrically linked. A cursory...
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    STI stud for anodize racking?

    Afternoon all, Looking for some insight. I’m making some revs to this old part, but I can’t find where the previous designers racked it for anodizing. Is it common for a plater to have the appropriate hardware (oversized stud?) to use one of the STI helicoil tapped holes to rack the part? This...
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    Titanium gr5 and CF8M stainless steel Galvanic Corrosion

    Hi Smokes, Is the Ti being used for corrosion resistance or because of loading requirements? If the contact point isn't under any high load, I find thin walled nylon 6/6 or equivalent plastic bearings solve the problem outright by isolating dissimilar metals from each other. Even if your...
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    Aluminum Pads, Connecting Hardware Choice

    Hi Bob, I take it the aluminum pads are not designed yet. I would open up the mounting holes by one standard increment before anodizing, then simply use a plastic isolation shoulder washer at the connect points. This way you can use your SS or galvanized hardware with no risk of galvanic...
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    Using Loctite in deep sea environment with 316 fasteners?

    I heard back from the Loctite representative and he confirmed that there were no extraneous issues involved with corrosion. I'm going to use the medium strength (blue) primer-less 243 for this application. Thanks to Mike and Mint for your replies and hopefully the thread will help someone else...
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    Using Loctite in deep sea environment with 316 fasteners?

    Thanks for the reply Mike, I did put an e-mail out to there customer service but no answer as of yet. I'm take your wording as saying any Loctite product won't make a difference beyond what the general conditions would dictate? I threw my question up on here on the chance that someone may say...
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    Using Loctite in deep sea environment with 316 fasteners?

    Hi all, I am having some trouble with 316SS 10-24 FH screws backing out of their 316SS housing during system deployment. Looking to implement some sort of thread locking, but unsure of Loctite's performance in an open marine environment, and also if it arises any corrosion concerns (he housing...
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    CPVC Coloring

    According to my other engineers in the building, CPVC exhibits this higher ductility in the form of higher compressibility without fracture, which would be disastrous in an underwater environment. Didn't take the time to do a research search to my standards, but for these purposes, it would...
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    CPVC Coloring

    Hello All, A new rev of a product is using a 3" Schedule 80 CPVC pipe as a pressure tube and solid stock for 2 endcaps, instead our the typical anodized/painted aluminum. The product is for a long term (1-3 year) deployment in ocean water at depths up to 200m. From a sellers perspective, this...
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    Using eDrawings File as Assembly Drawing

    Hi All, Always had great help in these forums, so here's another topic I hope can help someone else too. We are experimenting with abandoning the traditional hard assembly drawings (exploded view, fastener lines, etc.) and replacing them with an eDrawings file to be displayed on the assemblers...
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    Stress question to help streamline component

    Here's another image zoomed out. Maybe it better shows how the "hump" could be considered significant enough to be at least addressed. http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=8bf558bd-2a5a-4705-a0d1-842e0df23e54&file=Assembly2.JPG
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    Stress question to help streamline component

    First off, thank you all so much for your prompt replies. I've attached a JPEG of the hook as it appears in the assembly. I made my first post rather hastily, and I see how it came across a little misleading. I can't find how to turn off the scaling in SW, but the image was indeed scaled is...

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