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June 5, 2007

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Online catalog provides clamps, pins, knobs, plungers, supports, locators and more. Site provides pricing, availability, CAD drawings and online ordering.
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New & Improved Sample Requests From Apple Rubber

Apple Rubber Products, Inc. introduces their new and improve user-friendly sample request tool. The accurate and easy-to-use tool works as a step-by-step guide when requesting free O-ring samples.
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Oriental Motor

The BLU Series consists of models with an output rating of 1/38, 1/19 or 1/8 HP, all combining an energy-saving, slim, compact brushless DC motor with panel-installation type driver.
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Bimba Medical Pinch Valve

Using Original Line technology, the Pinch Valve was designed to precisely control the flow of fluids in dialysis equipment by pinching a tube when extended.
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Cleveland Motion Controls

CMC-Torque System’s MDM-5000 high-energy brushless servomotor was engineered to deliver the industry’s highest available torque density in a compact and versatile platform. MDM-5000 servomotors produce stall torque up to 35-40% higher than conventional designs.
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Active Tracking Filters from Sola/Hevi-Duty

Stop electronic rust with the STF series. Attenuates noise in a frequency range of 50 KHz to 50 MHz to a minimum of 40db.
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Encoders Ride A Controlled Explosion

In motor racing terms, it doesn’t get much simpler — traverse the straight

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linefrom A to B as quickly as possible. Within a split second, the engine of a 360 kg motorcycle screams to 7,500 rpm. Before a spectator has a chance tocomprehend what has transpired, the race is over and bike and rider are aquarter mile down the track, braking frantically. Built by Finland-based Salakazi Racing and generating almost 1500 horsepower from just 1995cc, the KTMnitro methane dragsterdoes the quarter mile in 6.7 seconds at a terminalvelocity of 196 mph/316 km/h. Helping to barely tame the dragster’s controlled explosion are a brace of “bomb proof” Renishaw RM22 compact, high-speed rotary magnetic encoders. More>>

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		New Developments in Off-Road Hydraulics Years ago, designing a mobile system was simplicity itself. You’d probably specify a gear pump, manual valves, the necessary actuators, and finish off with an appropriate reservoir, filter, and cooler. But today the vendors serving this key market have brought forth new equipment with capabilities unsuspected a decade ago. More>>

		Goodbye to LVDTs in Recreational Vehicles Linear potentiometers and LVDTs may have seen their last RVs. MTS Sensors has developed a C-Series linear-position sensor that suits the requirements of recreational vehicles: it is small, less expensive, and more durable than its predecessors. More >>

		Core Drill Gets the Dirt on Mars NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover mission is supposed to go up in 2009. On board will be a specially designed device to handle coring operations, the Mini-Corer from Honeybee Robotics Spacecraft and Mechanisms Design Company. More>>

		ATS 115 Linear Motion The ATS115 linear motion guide bearing system has speeds to 300 mm/s and travels to 600 mm. Side seals keep dirt and pariculates out of the stage to protect bearing surfaces from contamination. More>>

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On this Day in History

1951 : T-Top patent is issued: Gordon M. Buehrig was issued a U.S. patent for his "vehicle top with removable panels," an invention that would eventually appear as a "T-top" on the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. In 1928, Buehrig was the fourth man hired by Harley Earl for General Motors' (GM) new Art and Colour Section, the first GM department dedicated solely to design concerns. More>>

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