Techsil has launched a new leading edge PUR Form-in-Place-Foam-Gasketing service. Using an innovative single-component liquid-polyurethane-foam sealing system and machine technology, Techsil’s FIPFG service offers a solution for replacing labour intensive peel and stick gasket applications. Taking measured quantities of material and compressed air the mixture is homogenised and, through sheer f...

Sigma Components has developed a new range of lightweight self-locking nuts (SLN), for aerospace applications, that is says offer weight savings of up to 46% over the current AS standard counterparts. With self-locking nuts being used extensively across a number of engine programmes, Sigma also points out that the potential for weight and cost-savings is significant. “The need for lightweight,...

20th March 2017 By Chris Petts, managing director, Lee Spring UK Ref: Ref: FFT170320 Stress, set and weight should be important considerations in establishing a custom spring design that need to be understood at the outset. Here, Chris Petts expands on this general discussion and looks at detailed considerations required for the correct specification of compression springs. Click here to download

Vitralit® VBB-2N LV, a new solvent-free UV adhesive, is now available from UK distributor Techsil. Manufactured by Panacol, this adhesive features low viscosity and is ideally suited for bonding elastomeric materials. Elastomeric materials and rubbers all differ in their polymer structure, polarity, and surface properties. This makes them very difficult to bond and there are drawbacks with usin...

PennEngineering® says its new PEM® self-clinching stainless steel standoff fasteners with bright nickel plating offer corrosion resistance and contribute to an attractive finish in stainless steel assemblies. These 400 Series stainless steel threaded fasteners enable mounting, spacing, or stacking of panels, boards, or components and will install reliably into thin stainless host sheets by pres...

Select Products states that its new BladeFixer brand is the world's first plasterboard fixing that can hold 245kg in shear tests and 85kg tension tests* after being independently tested and verified by the BRE (Building Research Establishment). Making BladeFixer the heavyweight champion of plasterboard fixings. Select Products Ltd points out that BladeFixers also offer a larger fixing surface (...

According to JCS, one of the many industries where its hose clamps are used is the agricultural sector - equipment such a crop-sprayers, slurry-spreaders and seed drills make use of high-performance hose clamps during operation. Tractor-mounted crop sprayers feature a series of hoses secured to a boom arm by hose clamps. Likewise, some designs of slurry spreaders include a run of hoses fixed to...

WDS Component Parts Ltd has introduced a new range of compact parking type spring loaded index bolts supplied in a distinctive red colour for ease of identification. Available with shaft diameters from 3mm to 10mm and head diameters from 14mm to 33mm, with lengths from 5mm to 12mm, the spring loaded index bolts make many assembly and positioning jobs easier and less time consuming. Different si...

First published: 1st May 2011 By Mark Salmon, Independent Fixings Consultants Ref: FFM691105/80 In the Technical Analysis paper entitled Tightening torques explained (ref: FFM671101/66), Mark Salmon outlined the relationship between tightening torque and clamping force and introduced the idea of Load relaxation. In this article he follows this up by explaining how this can affect anchor testing...

Rivit Srl is known in Italy and abroad as a leading company in the production and distribution of fastening systems and related tools for sheet metal working, including the newly released RIV906 ratchet hand tool for rivet nuts and the RIV916 hydropneumatic riveter. Designed to place RIVSERT female rivet nuts from M5 to M12 and RIVBOLT male rivet nuts from M5 to M8, the top lever of the RIV906...