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    API 7: IF vs. REG vs. FH Threads

    We still cut several more IF, Reg. and FH threads than we do NC in any given week, in a shop that primarily builds specialty wellhead equipment, wireline and downhole tools, crossovers and lately a fair number of PDC bit bodies (API 6A, 7, 16A and 16C licenses). I would say at least three or...
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    RP 5C1 Make-Up Torque Values

    Oops, just realized my spreadsheet mistake. Used nominal pipe OD instead of upset OD. None of this explains any of my original problems but at least now I can duplicate the tabulated values in RP 5C1. SnubEngr
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    API Connection Make-Up Torques

    NOTE: I have cross-posted this to the API Code Issues Forum. Does anyone here have experience with API EUE tubing, especially L-80, at all sizes, being made up to the specs given in Bull. 5C1 and finding that it is just way too high? Over the years, I have come across this several times, and...
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    RP 5C1 Make-Up Torque Values

    Does anyone have experience with EUE tubing, especially L-80, at all sizes, being made up to the specs given in 5C1 and finding that it is just way too high? Over the years, I have come across this several times, and now again recently with 2 7/8" 6.50# L-80. After looking at the derivation...
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    pressure testing standards for hyd line

    Remembering back to my instrumentation days, I think that in general, pressure measuring devices which utilize bourdon tubes, are at the highest accuracy between 30% and 80% of the range. I think that most, if not all, analog chart recorders use bourdon tubes for pressure measurement. However...
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    Optimized and BORING!!!

    Much of this info is relevant to SP2. Have you guys 'upgraded' to SP2? I did and then ending up going back to SP1 because I had all kinds of problems while using Inventor. Lock ups, ghosting, lost time & info. were common, especially in large (500 part+) assemblies. Went back to SP1 and have...
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    shop labor reporting and data collection

    Where are you located? I know of a shop using a customized version of a commercially available shop management program that, among other things, produces travellers and quality plans with each process bar-coded. It also produces employee ID tags which are bar coded. When a...
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    E-drawings now supports Inventor files

    Free? Where would I go to find it?
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    Quick Reference Cards

    Try http://icrank.com/cgi-bin/pageman/pageout.cgi?path=/index_html.html Look in the Design Tools section.
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    Milling Feature into a shaft

    I actually only need to go about 50 degrees around the shaft, and I understand the 3-d sketch concept, but I'm falling down on how to make a sketch on the surface of the cylinder. As for lofting...what you talkin' bout Mike? (I just have no experience with it at all). Thanks for your quick...
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    Milling Feature into a shaft

    Hello: I am trying to put a slot into a shaft which follows a fairly convoluted path, but the slot itself is the same shape and size throughout. I believe I need to make the slot profile sketch and then a sketch of the path to sweep the feature through but I can't figure out how to make a...
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    Step-up hydraulic cylinder?

    Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm still missing something. Isn't the pressure in the cylinder constant? If so, what determines when the secondary (outer I guess) cylinder is activated? Cheers, Denande
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    Step-up hydraulic cylinder?

    Hello: Today I came across a website for a 'step-up hydraulic cylinder'. Apparently it has a high-speed, low force mode and then when it encounters resistance it switches to a low-speed, high force mode. I'm assuming that it must work by somehow altering the active pressure area of the...
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    Carbon Fiber Construction:

    Try this site. He built a bike from CF in his garage. http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/howibuil.htm BTW, many high end bikes are made from CF these days and have been for many years. I ride one from the late '80s. Cheers, DA
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    API 10,000 # Flange Dimensions

    Try www.woodcousa.com They have an online version of the classic API 6A Flange Slide Rule. Denande

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