If the ends are properly retained and open to the outside atmosphere, the main shrinkage will be in the thickness of the wall as the length increases. The inside size will shrink only if the inside is isolated fron the outside atmosphere.
"If you rent oxygen equipment, Medicare payments (and your coinsurance) for this equipment now stop after 36 months. But suppliers are required by Federal law to continue providing oxygen and oxygen equipment for up to 5 years as long as you medically need it, and to keep the equipment in good...
I am looking for good news from your company related to engineering jobs being saved or created by the new health insurance plan. I think the rush is over of people lining up at doctors offices for their now "free" health care. Please post the "good" aspects that will help business and keep us...
Sand blasting and treating the pins with adhesive is a good start. There are methods of testing but you will have to perform a test based on the geometry of your product. The best adhesion test is one in which the rubber tears before the rubber lets go of the insert.
I am wondering if there is any polymer better than PVC for the following:
1) Direct digital print adhesion
2) Good tear resistance
3) Weatherability and wash and dry cycles.
Current material is 80 durometer Shore A PVC.
My experience in doing design reviews on products we are asked to make, military included, is that it is easy to find contradictions on hole sizes and positional tolerances. Standard or no standard, the designer needs to have a practical sense of the related components and, more importantly, the...
The winner is... well, the customer is not completely sure either. Neither of us has been in the business since 1983 so caseynick gets the nod on this one.
I have a drawing with the tolerance block stating +/-1/64" VOSP I am not sure what the letters stand for. Is this part of a standard? Thanks in advance.
Microsoft advertised Vista heavily in China in 2007 and it was taken up and used very heavily by millions of people. At one point, they had recorded only 244 legal sales of the software. I won't get out my calculator but I think you can probably smell the $$$ problem at the root of this whole...
In the late 90's, there was a very long Dilbert session on ISO:90001 registration. We were going through the process at the time and there were several days that the Dilbert cartoon matched our meeting minutes a little too close. I dont't know which one he was, but he had to have been there.
