I sent my resume in to a local company unsolicited and they called very quickly for an interview saying they were planning on looking for someone with my qualifications for a new position. I had to reschedule due to an unexpected meeting time change for exactly the time for the interview that I...
I'm a relatively new user to Autocad and wanted to make some as-built ladder diagrams for some of the equipment in our plant, but have not had any luck finding any tutorials or anything like that on ways to set up the drawings. Everything I have come across is for Autocad Electrical and that...
We take in cake from other wastewater treatment plants to burn in our incinerator. The cake gets dumped into a receiving bin with a series of 6 augers in the live bottom and passes pretty much anything that comes in. The problem is we get all sorts of junk in there, large rocks, bolts, pieces...
A consulting engineer I am working with is specifying equipment where one manf. centrifugally casts the highly stressed components and the other static casts. He is leaning towards the centrifugal casting but the static cast vendor now says they will centrifugally cast. We don't entirely trust...
I am looking to build an ER32 collet adaptor for my lathe and am having trouble finding much info. All I have found so far are the overall dimensions and angle of the collet, but can't find info for the adaptor. I can estimate what I need from the collet dimensions since it's for my own use...
Is there a rule of thumb or calculation for the duty cycle of a motor run at speeds other then it's nameplate? For example, if a motor is controled by a VFD on a machine tool that runs at all different speeds intermittantly, maybe as low as 5-10 hz, does the duty cycle of the motor need to be...
I am trying to find information on german stainless steels and the ASTM equivalents. The ones I am intersted in are 1.4468-A1, 1.4462-B1 and 1.4462-A2. I can find info on these without the suffix and would like to know what the difference is between the standard type and the one with the -B1...
