Thanks for the reply's.
A few details: these are sand castings and we are not using any exotic alloys or grades of steel.
My question/point about US foundry capacity was that it doesn't pass the smell test. We have one foundry supporting our needs (we are about 25% of their business) and I...
My company started having a lot of problems with one our primary casting suppliers. It turns out that there have been some significant changes and this company will no longer be an option in the future.
The company supplies sand castings ranging between 50 and about 800 pounds. It isn't my job...
Has anyone used a good web meeting software? I just had a web meeting and it was horrible. I used Microsoft Live Meeting. It was not good but OK when I was showing the powerpoint, but when I was showing models it was awful. Kept locking up the refresh was bad. Any suggestions?
Adalius-
We have found that lock wire doesn't really work as a retention device but more like an indicator (if lock wire is broken you bolt is loose.
Nordlocks do work very well but I don't have the counter bore.
Is there a more technical way of saying that a bolt is backing out?
I am writing a service bulletin and want to let the customer know that a bolt tends to back out over time.
Thanks for the tip dgallup. Since I was working in an assembly and wanting to show and hide various components I was trying to use the group selection. I guess since Pro considers a group a feature in the model tree that is how they want you to select it. It seems odd that there is a group...
I have a large assembly with 2 different versions. I have all the components shown in the generic and two instances. I would like to simplify my family table by grouping. Group 1 is shown in instance 1 and group 2 is shown in instance 2.
I can add components to the family table, but when I...
I have two rollers in Hertzian contact. One roller is driving the other. I put a coating on one roller and want to determine how much it helps. I have the ability to determine the RPM & torque of both rollers.
This seems like a simple enough case that it could be tested with some ASTM code, but...
I was wanting it to be a one piece thing, I checked both reid and mcmaster but they didn't have anything.
It was kind of a shot in the dark to see if anyone had com across something like that and knew what it was called. Thanks for the input.
You can see the attached poorly drawn sketch, but I am looking for something kind of like a shoulder bolt but the shoulder part is a lot bigger than the bolt part. (Something in the neighborhood of a 1" shoulder to a 0.25" threaded)
This is not going to see any load it is a target for a prox...
One of my professors told me that ammonia is a superior refrigerant because of the reasons listed above, but because of small leaks that early systems were prone to they switched because of the smell.
thruthefence-
It has been a couple of years since I looked at it and it may have changed, but as I recall there are some ways to bob and weave around how you actually remove the alcohol. I think there is a little bit of gray you can work with. I would read up on it before I tried. And I...
Mike did your 4 kids come about because you are a home brewer? ;)
I would recommend the "The Alaskan Bootleggers Bible" it is a great book covers everything from the law, equipment, and recipes. Also a lot of info on the web.
http://www.happymountain.net/
There are a lot of different...
The problem with MIM or PIM is that the complicated geometry is internal. The external geometry of all most all or our manifolds is very simple (a rectangular solid) An additive process like DMLS would eliminate the need to have intersecting bores that need to be plugged later.
The idea was to...
Has anyone used DMLS for production parts? I think I may have found an ideal application for this technology.
We do a lot of hydraulic manifolds, so they are low load (about 5000 PSI MAX) and have a complicated geometry. It would also change the way the manifolds are designed. It would make...
