Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations SSS148 on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Search results for query: *

  1. M

    New Patented High Speed Steel Alloys

    How convenient that AR also happens to be your initials! Go for it. For a more literary option, consider "Reardon Metal"
  2. M

    Shou Sugi Ban procedure

    Here's a study of materials from a US supplier. Several species studied, but not any actual sugi. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/9/1262
  3. M

    Shou Sugi Ban procedure

    The Japanese characters are 焼杉板. Literally, burnt "sugi" plank. Sugi is the Japanese ceder tree, which is anyways insect and water resistant. Perhaps the heat polymerizes the natural ceder resins? Or maybe the benefits are basically those of the wood itself. Your mileage may vary if...
  4. M

    Shou Sugi Ban procedure

    Anicdotally, here in Japan there are many old buildings (hundreds of years) with the charred finish still standing. It was used extensively on "yagura", out buildings used to store valuable items. My father in law's yagura has this finish, not sure how old it is.
  5. M

    One Drive - Am I the Last Person Using Dropbox for Business

    We use DropBox. I like OneDrive's collaboration features and automatic version controls. Both are better than DropBox.
  6. M

    Carbon River Fairfax Bridge - Closed

    The NTSB report on the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse in Pittsburg made the remarkable assertation that "rust makes metal weaker". https://www.eng-tips.com/threads/pittsburgh-bridge-collapse.507081/ It seems that the State of Washington has been conducting a peer review test of this assertation...
  7. M

    Questions on airflow performance specs of two dif register designs.

    The damper design seems different.
  8. M

    Unknown steel

    The drawing looks to be from Germany (or one of the other German speaking countries). "OX" is possibly from "Oxelösund" which once might have been an independent mill, but is now part of SSAB. https://www.ssab.com/en/news/2023/06/ssab-invests-in-green-transformation-of-production-in-oxelsund
  9. M

    Product Misalignment at Conveyor Transition

    Maybe if the fingers were more 3-dimensional. If they had a triangular cross-section then packages would be more likely to slide back down, onto the belt, instead of getting stuck on top of the fingers. A rounded tip, instead of pointy, might also help.
  10. M

    Pump Automation

    Ok, the priming water comes from a pipe. So the pump is the thing that looks like a tank? And the other thing that looks like a tank is the motor? And there aren't actually any tanks at all? How, exactly, is the motor that overheats when it's not doing any work (no prime, no flow, no work)...
  11. M

    Pump Automation

    Where does the priming water come from?
  12. M

    Bolts in Shear on Circumferential Bolt Pattern

    It's not a very good design. Hard to assemble, and will almost certainly leak.
  13. M

    To replace faulty power alternator with a smaller unit

    Assuming that the original alternator and the turbine were well matched....... Then you'll need to look at the turbine performance charts and the controls to see how happy it will be running at about 75% of its "design" rating. The turbine efficiency will likely drop a few percentage points...
  14. M

    I feel like I wasted 2 years — advice from senior engineers appreciated

    And here you are asking strangers on the internet what to do. It's your life. You need to take control of it. Stop waiting for others to do it for you.
  15. M

    IP65 PROTECTION CLASS FOR NON ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT

    The assessment for IP ratings is "protected against the harmful effects of....". So if the valve "Worked perfectly before and after the test" then it passed, didn't it.
  16. M

    Connector to casing assembly design

    It might be really helpful for you to have a set of well defined design requirements and constraints.
  17. M

    Guidance on Zirconium Overlay (ERZr-2) on 316L Stainless Steel Using GTAW

    zirconium nitride can be sputtered. zirconium oxide and zirconium carbide can be applied by CVD. Do you need the thickness implied by weld overlay? Do you need the ERZr-2 composition?
  18. M

    White Rust in HVAC Ductwork, again

    It's a fine mess. I doubt that the applying new galvanized sheet over the existing rust would have worked. As 3DDave noted, it just becomes a place for mold to grow and other crap to accumulate. Did whoever actually did the spraying wear any sort of respirator? Toxic nasty stuff in an...
  19. M

    Study of an ironing device

    In my many years of experience I've never heard the term "barycentric". I had to look it up. The geometry leads to self-energization, which contributes to both the "crushing load", and if we guess that T0 is tension somewhere, that as well. I guess that "construction drawing" is somewhere...
  20. M

    Vilnius crash

    If we believe your earlier link, then I don't see any hydraulic backup for TE flaps. I guess the mitigation is "you'll be landing fast, deal with it." From the excellent b737 site http://www.b737.org.uk/hydraulics.htm

Part and Inventory Search