Often times the homemade tools we find are more interesting than the actual tools they are meant to mimic. Such is the case with a rotary tool design that is powered by the suction of a vacuum and has the secondary effect of cleaning up ...
Tags: Rotary Tool, Tools
Pump Systems Matter (PSM) and the Hydraulic Institute (HI) have announced the upcoming Pump Systems Optimization 3-Part webinar series. The series will begin on June 3, 2013. During this series participants will examine and identify ...
Tags: PSM&HI, Pump Systems
Blackmer is pleased to announce that its XL and HXL Series Sliding Vane Pumps feature the capability to handle a number of critical processing, filling and transfer applications that are commonly found in oil and natural gas production ...
Tags: Pumps, Processing Machinery
Do screws, metal tracks, garages, door tensions and the likes excite you? If they do, well then I am sure that you might be indulging in all this and repairing the garage door too. Basically garage door repair entails, checking if it ...
Tags: Garage Door, Construction, Decoration
The Gorman-Rupp Company reports that its Patterson Pump Company subsidiary has been reaffirmed as the supplier of pumps for the Permanent Canal Closures and Pumps (PCCP) project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District. ...
During The Timken Company's 109th annual meeting of shareholders on Tuesday in Canton, Ohio, shareholders voted in support of the non-binding shareholder proposal to spin off the company's steel business with approximately 47 percent of the ...
Tags: Timken Shareholders, Split Steel
NOV Mono has helped solve an ongoing maintenance problem for a major German wastewater treatment plant with the installation of an EZstrip TR Muncher. The Mono Muncher has dramatically reduced the number of pipeline blockages occurring at ...
Tags: Transfer Problem, Wastewater Plant
German automobile manufacturer Volkswagen is planning to upgrade the 2013 models of the Beetle Turbo, Beetle Turbo Convertible, and the Jetta GLI, which will be launched in June 2013. As part of the upgrade, the vehicles will be equipped ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Beetle Turbo
Building on its success in the construction and industrial pumps market in the US, Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics has launched its innovative Norglide composite bearings solutions for hydraulic pump technology in heavy-duty vehicles ...
Electrical Equipment and Lubrication Reliability Modern lubrication technology and practices can help improve the reliability of outdoor electric utility equipment such as high-voltage switchgear and circuit breakers. Different types of ...
There may be a sliver of light at the end of the tunnel for retailers frustrated with creaky, plastic-y, non-serviceable OEM bottom brackets in $8,000 bikes. A new generation of aftermarket designs goes directly after creak and ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Tie Rod Jib Crane Improves Safety and Efficiency A regional power generation company was using 3 and 5 ton hoists suspended from monorails in their weld/fabrication shop. Hanging over the workbenches, the hoists were used to pick up ...
In daily life Around the turn of the 20th century, bicycles reduced crowding in inner-city tenements by allowing workers to commute from more spacious dwellings in the suburbs. They also reduced dependence on horses. Bicycles allowed ...
Tags: Social Aspects, Historical Aspects, Bicycle
The great majority of today's bicycles have a frame with upright seating which looks much like the first chain-driven bike. Such upright bicycles almost always feature the diamond frame, a truss consisting of two triangles: the front ...
A bicycle, often called a bike (and sometimes referred to as a "pushbike", "pedal bike", "pedal cycle", or "cycle"), is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A ...