| July 14, 2015 | Volume 11 Issue 26 |
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 | Completely Updated New Full Line Catalog:
Full of New Fasteners
Micro Plastics introduces its new 300-page catalog #40 containing thousands of fastening solutions for engineers and product designers. Find hundreds of new problem-solving products, including Spacers, Washers, Clips, Clamps, Ties, Bushings, Screws, Nuts, Rivets, and Plugs. Micro Plastics specializes in Nylon threaded fasteners, but the company also offers extensive product lines for wire management and circuit board hardware. FREE samples are available upon request.
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 | Select the best shaft for your bearing system
In order to optimize the friction and wear of your bearing systems, shaft and bearing materials that work well together are crucial. Cohesiveness between the shaft and bearing materials is essential, as a whole range of problems can arise if the wrong shaft material is used with a particular bearing. In this technical guide from igus, review what to consider when it comes to choosing the surface treatment of your bearings' shaft surfaces.
Read the shaft selection guide. |
 | Wheels: Supersonic air blower sweeps train rails clean
Like an SUV towing a trailer in winter, locomotives can lose their grip on slick rails if they're pulling too much behind them. Since the weather in mountainous areas can change quickly, railroads play it safe and usually only run trains long enough to pull through all weather conditions.
But shorter trains can get expensive. That's why GE locomotive engineers developed a software-guided supersonic air blower to keep the rails clear.
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 | Most Popular Dev Kit:
Freescale 9-axis sensor toolbox breakout board
Newark element14 has added the Freescale 9-axis Sensor Toolbox Breakout Board to its extensive portfolio of technology products, which includes the largest range of development kits available globally from one single source. The BRKT-STBC-AGM01 9-axis board can be soldered onto a prototype design to determine motion, position, and location as well as angle of rotation for real-world testing.
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 | Top Mike Likes:
Lightweight high-density zipper-fin heat sinks
New zipper-fin heat sinks from Advanced Thermal Solutions (ATS) are protecting thousands of components from the dangers of excess heat at a lower cost than other high-fin-density heat-sink types. Zipper fins are machined from thin sheet metal, typically aluminum or copper, and are formed into custom shapes. Zipper-fin sinks can be designed with integral ducts to contain and optimize cooling airflow for LEDs as well as hot components in the telecom, datacom, military, and embedded electronics industries.
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 | Top Product: Turn ordinary pipe into a conveyor
EXAIR's new aluminum 3/8 NPT and 1/2 NPT Threaded Line Vac Air Operated Conveyors convert ordinary pipe into a powerful conveying system for parts, scrap, trim, and other bulk materials. Their small size makes them perfect for fitting in the cramped spaces and tight confines of many production lines. The Threaded Line Vac is designed to attach to plumbing pipe couplers, making it easy to build a complete system using ordinary pipe and fittings. Threaded Line Vac Conveyors eject a small amount of compressed air to produce a vacuum on one end with high-output flows on the other. Response is instantaneous. Regulating the compressed air pressure provides infinite control of the conveying rate.
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 | Top Product: First instant hybrid cyanoacrylate adhesive
Henkel has introduced Loctite 4090, a versatile, patented hybrid adhesive that combines the bond strength of a structural epoxy with the speed of an instant adhesive. This powerful combo delivers the first structural cyanoacrylate: an adhesive that offers rapid, high-strength bonding to a range of substrates along with impact and moisture resistance, and temperature resistance to 300 F. Versatile enough to solve both indoor and outdoor design and assembly challenges, the new tech greatly expands the capabilities of cyanoacrylates, especially in applications where traditional instant adhesives offer too little strength or are too brittle.
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 | Top Cool Tools: Creaform GO!SCAN 3D scanner
Creaform's Go!SCAN 3D is a simple, portable, and affordable 3D scanner that lets engineering users effortlessly capture the 3D shape of any object, including complex, freeform, and organic shapes. This is a really slick tool that lets you scan using a super-easy spray-paint motion style for accurate reverse-engineering or prototyping models. Dynamic referencing makes it possible to move the part during scanning, all while keeping the accuracy level up to 0.1 mm.
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| | Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action | How do you stop a 1,000-mph car?
Find out how air-brake technology from motion-control specialist Parker will help stop the 6.5-ton BLOODHOUND Supersonic jet-rocket car. The air brakes are deployed after BLOODHOUND travels 800 mph. Runway testing in preparation for attempting to break the World Land Speed Record is expected to take place in South Africa this year.
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Hacker's motorized gadget cracks combo locks
C-C-C-Combo Breaker is a motorized, battery-powered, 3D-printed, Arduino-based device that can crack any Master combination lock in less than 30 seconds. According to an NBC News report, the device was created by Samy Kamkar, a hacker and engineer "who in April revealed a method of cracking Master locks by feeling carefully for hitches in the dial's spin, which hint at the actual combination and limit it to eight options. ... One part grips the dial and spins to the numbers as it goes through the process of checking for the resistance that indicates the combo. Meanwhile, a little lever tugs on the shackle at the right moments -- and to see if the lock opens after each attempt."
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