Brennan Industries has launched an all new 3D CAD catalog powered by CADENAS PARTsolutions. The new platform supplies precise 3D CAD data, enabling engineers to download digital product models in their preferred native format, including interactive 3D PDF data sheets. By upgrading to eCATALOGsolutions, Brennan Industries is providing more accurate data in a wider variety […]
Fittings
An insight into AIGNEP’s business
Joseph Quinn, regional sales manager for the western region of AIGNEP USA and I spoke recently about the company’s products. “We’ve found that distributors of hose product also run into customers that require pneumatic connectivity,” he said. “So what we sell is product that connects pneumatic systems to valves and cylinders from the compressor. We […]
Skiving a hydraulic hose
Skiving a hydraulic hose is really about reliability. The right thing to do is to skive it if you’re using reasonable fittings. It allows the fitting to bite into the braiding rather than simply rest at the top, the cover. If that cover peels back or pulls off, you’re going to have failures. For hydraulic […]
Stauff presents the soft-sealing cutting ring
New to the Stauff Connect product range and introduced for the first time at the Hanover Fair are FI-WDDS-type soft-sealing cutting rings, which compensate for settling effects in tube fittings, for example, from temperature fluctuations or from pressure pulse and vibration loads in a hydraulic system. With 24° tube connectors, 37° flared tube fittings and […]
Guide helps to select the proper pneumatic fitting
A new guide from Beswick Engineering Co. explains the various choices faced when you are selecting pneumatic fittings for your product. There are three common fitting types: barbed, push-to-connect, and compression. Each has advantages and disadvantages. How will you select the best type for the long term success of your design? The Beswick Fitting Selection Guide […]
Brass fittings from Anderson Metals are suitable for a variety of harsh environments
Although not one of the most common fittings used in fluid power applications, brass fittings are extremely useful in corrosive environments for both hydraulic and pneumatic hose and tubing applications. Anderson Metals offers a variety of fittings, including 45° flare fittings, pipe fittings, and push-on hose barbs for a wide range of temperatures. The SAE 45° flare […]
How do you measure threads on a hydraulic fitting?
Before you select a hydraulic fitting, you must first determine if its threads will match the hose you have selected. Measuring and identifying the fittings is easily done but you must have the correct tools. These tools include ID/OD calipers and thread pitch gauges. Using the thread pitch gauge, as seen in Figure 1, simply […]
Midland Metal launches updated 2017 catalog
Midland Metal Mfg. has launched its new 2017 catalog. The 576 page, full color catalog offers 14,000 products with over 1,300 new items. New products include truck and trailer accessories, hose clamps, pneumatic accessories, many new valves, and an all new LP Gas section of products. Midland Metal Mfg. partners with wholesalers and distributors nationwide that […]
Parker Hannifin introduces GlobalCore at Bauma 2016
At the Bauma show, Parker Hannifin introduced GlobalCore—five hydraulic hoses and two fittings series that significantly reduce engineering and service complexity by providing the first comprehensive product family across the most commonly used constant working pressure classes. Designed to meet the most common working pressures in industry, GlobalCore is built and tested to the ISO […]
Voswinkel presents new fitting system at Bauma 2016
Voswinkel, part of the Stauff Group and manufacturers of hydraulic quick release couplings and one of the largest German producer of hydraulic hose fittings, presented a new fitting system in the ECOVOS range at the Bauma trade fair. In contrast to the previously available hose fittings with 24° sealing cone (EN 8434-1), the new fittings […]