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New Tapered Section Rings from Smalley! Smalley is bringing you even more retaining ring solutions! When you need a quick and economical heavy-duty ring, our newest standard series, Tapered Section Rings (circlips), is here to secure your assembly needs. They can be axially installed into a bore/shaft groove to safely secure assemblies in place. In stock from 0.25 - 3", or 3 - 75 mm in Spring Steel SAE 1060 and 1074. Request no-cost samples to test.
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Bye-bye silicon: Intel unveils glass-chip future Big discovery: Metals can heal themselves NASA and DARPA developing nuclear rocket engine for future Mars missions Antimatter gravity experiment answers big scientific questions |
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Basketball-size inverse-Wankel rotary engine claims 5x power density gains, Army is testing Small combustion engine developer LiquidPiston aims to commercialize its XTS-210, a 25-hp, two-stroke, supercharged rotary engine that is 80% smaller than a diesel piston engine with comparable power output. The U.S. Army is investing over $8 million to test the mini engine as a 10-kW generator.
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First-ever Mustang GTD: Street-legal and track-ready supercar Ford's limited-edition, ultra-high-performance Mustang GTD is a street-legal supercar meant to thrill. Designed and engineered as a collaboration between Ford and Multimatic, the first-ever Mustang GTD sports an 800-hp supercharged 5.2-liter V8 and a price tag as high as its incredible wing.
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Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170: Fastest and most powerful muscle car in the world Dodge's seventh and final "Last Call" special-edition Challenger model is the quickest, fastest, and most powerful muscle car in the world: the 1,025-hp 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. It can do 0 to 60 in 1.66 sec.
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Boeing to build NASA braced-wing plane demonstrator NASA has selected Boeing and its industry team to lead the development and flight testing of a full-scale Transonic Truss-Braced Wing demonstrator airplane. A single-aisle airplane with this configuration could reduce fuel consumption and emissions up to 30%.
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Why was Roman concrete so durable? Self-healing was built right in Researchers have spent decades trying to figure out the secret of ancient Roman concrete, particularly in structures that have survived for two millennia. Now, an international team of investigators has made substantial progress.
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Will a hydrofoiling boat fly in America? Swedish boat builder Candela aims to electrify America's No. 1 boat segment: center consoles for fishing, families, and watersports. The company's 29-ft C-8 CC model flies on computer-guided hydrofoils, which are underwater wings that enable it to soar above the waves using 80% less energy.
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New corrosion protection plastic repairs itself Researchers in Switzerland have developed an extraordinary protection against corrosion after a chance discovery. It glows in places where it is not damaged, repairs itself, and can be reused multiple times.
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Top Product: New Raspberry Pi 5 board full of updates The much-anticipated new Raspberry Pi 5 4GB and 8GB boards are now available from Newark, delivering a two-to-three times increase in performance over Raspberry Pi 4 and many other improvements.
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Top Tech Tip: Gear crowning -- a cheap fix for noise With smaller gearboxes transmitting more power at higher rpm and the incumbent demands for greater efficiency, gear engineers are always searching for ways to reduce vibration and limit noise without increasing costs.
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Top Tech Tip: Sheet metal design guide If you're looking for a basic guide to sheet metal design, this one from Xometry will serve your needs well. Follow the design requirements and tolerances to ensure parts fall closer to design intent. This is the type of information you'll sock away and then refer to again and again.
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Top Product: Slimmest enclosure AC on the market! Seifert's SlimLine Series of enclosure air conditioners integrates unique technologies -- maximum power-to-size ratio, mounting of merely 4.5 in. inside-cabinet depth -- making this line the slimmest AC in the market. It features Seifert's proprietary condenser design for improved cooling and reliability. Cooling capacity: 1,090 to 5,120 Btu/hr.
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Ford 2,000-hp SuperVan takes on Pikes Peak Ford Performance debuted its way-out-there SuperVan 4.2 all-electric concept at the 101st running of The Broadmoor Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on June 25 -- and came out blazing to land the second-fastest time on the Colorado course overall.
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Assembly tape could cause phone and laptop battery drain In a fascinating discovery, researchers at Dalhousie University in Canada have concluded that some adhesive tape used to assemble commercial lithium-ion batteries can contribute to charge loss while devices sit idle. Read the full article to find out why.
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Amazon delivers on massive CAD conversion project for its industrial customers Amazon's industrial products division recently undertook what may be the largest CAD conversion project in history. Converting millions of 2D drawings and legacy CAD files into modern 3D CAD systems led to new opportunities and improved processes thanks to the capable CAD outsourcing services of CAD/CAM Services.
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| How Lexus fixed Tesla's bad idea: Steer-by-wire yoke | |
| Are you ready for steer-by-wire tech, where there is no mechanical connection between the steering wheel and the front wheels of your car? Engineering Explained's Jason Fenske runs through the advantages and disadvantages, and why Lexus' system (available on upcoming Lexus RZ 450e models) with self-adjusting variable steering ratio is a winner over Tesla's attempts to implement the technology. View the Engineering Explained video.
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