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    Linear bearings safety factor

    They are acting at the same time as the forces listed are a result of a load eccentric to the bearings. i.e. Develops a overturning moment which can be represted as two forces in the x axis and one in the y axis.
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    Linear bearings safety factor

    My supplier when I asked for loading information in relation to a application I had, has given me some detials I would like to cross check with others here. Where a bearing has loading in two different axes. He combined there loads to determine a safety factor. I am curious if it is correct, I...
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    Ball Screw

    If in australia contact the bellow: http://www.motiontech.com.au/
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    Linear bearings

    My supplier when I asked for loading information in relation to a application I had, has given me some detials I would like to cross check with others here. Where a bearing has loading in two different axes. He combined there loads to determine a safety factor. I am curious if it is correct, I...
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    'Enthusiasm' or 'Knowledge' ?

    with great Enthusiasm I will build my Knowledge, with my knowledge I will build great ethusiasm to be a part of something great!.
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    Hi Guys, Thanks for all your input, I'm glad to say I'm obviously not that annoying Salesmen some of you have described. Since my last post I have been out on the road visiting customers whom where very receptive and appreiciative of my visit. I either sat down and had 30min convo's over their...
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    I guess I was refering to the half formed ideas, incomplete ideas, that need more fine tuning, this is fine! why else would they contact us??, thats what engineering is all about!!. Concept throught to completion. I wasn't tring to say I was better than them (Actually never with cleintelle we...
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    "one tip: forget that old saw "The customer is always right." Customers are rarely right and often come to the table with half-formed or incomplete ideas of what they want to do." Already experience this one many times! it's been my biggest learning experience since starting at this firm...
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    WOW!! I never expected so many replies, I have really hit a nerve in the engineering field . . . . thankyou all for your replies you all made me feel so much better about my job believe it or not. . . . for the sake of defending myself as an engineer I graduated from University of Technology...
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    yeah thats why I am struggling to find adecent sales course they sound like "get rich quick scheme's". people buy from me because of good advise not something I can say or act out. I good humor and personality is about as far as it goes for me.
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    Why is there no section on this forum for sales engineering?

    Hi There, I have fairly recently become a sales engineer, for a industrial automation company. having sucessfully found this website usefull for technical issues in the past. I thought I would come back for some so called side issues as an engineer in my case "selling" as a profession. The...
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    LPG substition for diesel engine

    Hi, diesel engine runing with LPG seems like a great idea here in australia diesel is much more expensive then petrol and LPG. It makes financial sense to convert from petrol to LPG but not to diesel/lpg because available kits dont seem to uses high levels of LPG substitution, what is the...
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    cracks in newly poured concrete pile

    Hi, I recently did some design work for some lighting columns, the piles are sitting in hard soil and rock. The soil/rock was first augered out at Dia 0.9 Meteres and rio cage put in. at various lengths in line with a geotech report, and used brinch Hansen for faliure type mode, safety factor...
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    Why are diesels more efficient?

    you are all jumping around the answer, diesel engines can perform a significant lean burning environment. i.e. the cylinder fills with air and at idle or at any rev range lower than full throttle, only a relatively small quantity of fuel is in the cyclinder compared to the air quantity. The...

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