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December 2005 — Volume 1, Issue 5

Try a Retaining Ring or Wave Spring for Free
Smalley offers free samples of standard parts from our catalog to test in your application. Spiral Retaining Rings have No Ears To Interfere™ with mating components and are interchangeable with standard snap ring grooves. Wave springs can replace conventional coil springs while occupying only half the space and providing the same force and deflection. Try one today.  Visit Smalley Steel Ring Company online
This Issue:
Yes, there will be a test …

Locking Fasteners

**1st Place Winner**
Taming extreme forces
After getting high marks from MIT, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and the Goddard Space Flight Center, can Spiralock fasteners pass your extreme applications test? Read the full article.

Test and Measurement

**2nd Place Winner**
Spectrum analyzers: It's the time thing
A few decades ago, when analog oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers were state-of-the-art instruments, an engineer’s life was far simpler than today. Of course, it also was much less flexible and many would say less interesting. An RF engineer didn’t worry about DC drift, and a DC voltmeter designer didn’t care about voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR). Read the full article.


 

Looking for actuators to move a load 300 to 3000 lbs. with a specific gear ratio or motor voltage?
Burr Engineering & Development Company builds high performance linear actuators in smaller quantities with custom-made specifications, and at prices competitive with other brands' stock models. Visit  Burr Engineering online for more information.

Field Testing

Get ready to rumble
New T-2000 Electrodynamic Shaker System is the only one operational in a defense/commercial independent test laboratory. Read the full article.

Advances

Redefine "power user" with supercomputing at your desktop
Mathematica Personal Grid Edition and quad-core computers aim for heavy-duty prototyping. Read the full article.
NYLON FASTENER NEWS: In a hurry? Need to meet fast-paced design requirements with low volume production? Now there is Rapid Soft Tooling (RST) for washers, shoulder washers, and spacers. Just one week delivery from the day of approved drawing! Micro Plastics, Inc. is a family-owned company providing fast, economical ideas in plastic fastener production. Visit Micro Plastics online for more information.

Feats

**3rd Place Winner**
FEI installs world's most powerful commercial microscope at OSU
"This revolutionary system will divide the world into the Haves and the Have-Nots," Ohio State professor H. L. Fraser told Designfax. "Nobody wants to be a Have-Not in Materials Science. It will allow us to start writing the next chapters in high-resolution materials analysis." Read the full article.

New Feature
How We Innovate

Written by Designfax readers for Designfax readers
This issue: SolidWorks With COSMOSWorks. Read the full article.

Electric Replacement for Hydraulics!

Exlar’s electric linear actuators deliver the force of hydraulics and the speed of pneumatics. The patented roller screw technology offers peak forces in excess of 40,000 lbf., speeds to 60 in/sec, and stroke lengths to 96 inches, all with the ease and reliability of servo control. Visit Exlar online for more information.

Five-Star Product
Our best of the best

 Hard-turning gets big breakthrough
New technology enables lean manufacturing of thin-wall hardened or out-of-round parts

New Products

Special Focus
CAD/CAE/CAM
Electrical/Electronic
Mechanical
Motion Control

New Feature
Guides

  • Adhesives: New Loctite Design Guide for Electric Motors and Generators covers nine primary applications
  • Motion: Baldor offers Energy Solutions brochure
  • Materials: Polymer and rubber compound selector CD—A useful aid in designing rubber parts
  • Material Handling: Scientific Technologies 2006-2007 Guide to Machine & Process Safeguarding

MicroMo offers NEW Ultra-flat motors. Motor diameters from 15 to 26mm, heights start at 5.2mm.  The ultra-thin design is made possible by the coreless rotor with three flat oval coils. Ultra-flat motors offer no cogging and minimal moment of inertia. These motors are ideal for medical and laboratory equipment, robotics, scanners, optical and video systems. Visit MicroMo Online for more information.

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