Hey guys, I work almost exclusively with steel and a little with plastics, but now a product of mine needs a rubber part. The part will be used outdoors so it needs to be UV resistant and weather resistant. It also will need to be colored so it needs good color fastness. It needs to be fairly...
Can anybody help me out with the name of this thing? I'm just trying to experiment with something and I'm looking for the actuators (may not even be called that) that are used in rear hatches for SUVs and sometimes on screen doors on porches. The kind from the porch that just slowly hisses air...
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As a quick background I'm designing a kayak rack for suv's. We're working to find the perfect material and to do so I need to know what all the rack will be put through. My question is what sort of G forces do trucks/suv's go through on a day to day basis? I don't mean the g's of...
I'm working on a few new products that will be used as automotive accessories, think canoe racks and things of that sort.
The designs we have are good, but the material suggested by our factory is entirely too expensive. They've suggested PC (didn't specify yet what specific type). We need a...
So in college (Ga Tech) I was usually pretty strapped for $$ and sold most of my books back after each semester. I always figured I'd just buy the ones I needed back when I got a job. Well now I have that job, and can't figure out which ones to buy back. I'd rather not just start buying each...
This is a hitch attachment product for an automobile. We're increasing the angle that the hitch attaches by +3 degrees, the factory has informed us that they'd like to do it one of the following two ways.
1) change angle A
2) change angle B
changing angle B would likely be easier, but which...
I'm designing a stabilizing hitch pin for trailer and hitch applications, everything is good to go except my supervisor would like it to be cross drilled near the end so that a locking pin may be used. My problem with this is that I think somebody could just come by with a hammer and knock the...
I'm designing a bike rack from square and round tubing, and need the tubing to be as thin as possible. I have none of my books with me and could use help with which equations I'll need to calculate if the thing will be strong enough or not. The car from front to back will be the X axis and the...
I'm designing a hitch bike rack for automobiles.
What are some suggestions for a material that the bike holders (the frame everything is on is already manufactured from steel, I'm referring strictly to the rubber holder the bike frame sits on atop the holder arms)could be made of? The material...
