We looked into using Renshaw product. RESR Rings. You may be able to press one onto coupling. Our project fell through. Good luck.
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I over simpligied first discription. We are actually testing an aircraft part called an ABrake. This is an actuator that senses when a flap has been damaged on an aircraft. So in my discription the brake is actually this actuator. If the flap has been damaged it will force the actuator to slam...
I have a machine that has a motor on one end. There is a magnetic coupler between it and an inertia wheel. The inertia wheel is connected to a brake using a ling flexable shaft. The machine spins the inertia wheel to a fixed speed, then the brake is applied. The motor decouples and only the...
Roy my tubes are made of inconel so your idea intrigues me. For my application I do not see a way to attach to all the tubes at once easily. See attached picture.
Compositepro - I looked into into using IR to heat tubes, manufacuturer could not convince me this is the way to go.
If you look at...
We are building a stand to test stirling engines. These engines rely on solar energy being focused on Hydrogen filled tubes to work. The tubes need to be heated to 1600 degrees F. We need to simulate this energy on our test stand. The first option is to use a gas fired burner. This does not seem...
