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Hi all, I need to locate 3D models of branch connections (weldolets, sockolets and threadolets). I can find a few in a few sizes on McMaster-Carr's website, but I need a more complete library of these fittings. Does anyone know where I can find these? Thanks!!

Perfect! Thanks a bunch!

Hi. I just received a request from a customer for my company to us JIS 10K flanges on their order. I'm not familiar with this flange spec. I know it is a Japanese spec, and the 10K refers to the pressure rating (at least I think). Could someone point me to an online table, offer a reference...

Hi all, I just started with a company that makes differential pressure flowmeters three months ago. I was hired because the company being consolidated back to corporate headquarters but none of the engineers were relocating. I forced as much information into my head as possible while the...

Thanks to all of your for your suggestions...I should be well on my way to getting a good estimate...

Hi all. I am working on putting together a pricing program for our sales department that would allow them to enter in the dimensional parameters for venturis that we sell and obtain an estimate of our cost to manufacture. Dimensionally, it was easy to compute the weight of the unit, but when...

The gauge is held at 70°F. My main problem is trying to justify to the customer why the gauge loses about 150 psig over the course of an hour or so. It must be the relaxation of the glass, allowing a larger volume. Like I said, a helium (I mis-spoke up above) leak test shows that the gauge is...

Thanks Guidoo! I'll give it a shot and let you know how it worked out! Much appreciated!!

My company makes liquid level gauges (my area being boiler trim). I am working on calcs for a gauge with a valve at each end. The gauge is pressurized to hydrostatic test pressure (at 70°F) and the valves are closed. Over the course of an hour the gauge loses about 150 psig of pressure...

I will most certainly try it that way, cb4, thanks for your input. I'll post an update as soon as I can so that maybe others may benefit as well. Thanks again.

cb4, Just to clarify, I am using a working pressure of 1500 psig. Given this pressure, I have a safety factor greater than 1.00 at the nominal wall thickness minus 12.5%, so I have plenty of wall thickness to start with. What I want to determine is my tightest bend radius that I can make with...

Hi all. My company makes liquid level gages for boiler trim applications. I am working on pipe bends that join two gage sections together. Our current product (designed WAY before my time)has the radius of the bend at 1 5/8" (NPS 3/4 Sch. 160 SA-106 Gr. B pipe)which, according to our...

I believe smcadman is correct. I have an AutoLisp programming book here, and VL, VLAX is not mentioned anywhere. Does anyone know how to do this without using VL-VLAX?

CarlB, I tried copying and pasting the code into Notepad. I saved it as a .lsp file and loaded it into autocad. It loads it, but I get an error: Command: _appload Loading C:\colorchange2.lsp ... Error: null function*Cancel* Any suggestions?

I am running AutoCAD 14.01 and need a way to quickly change my background color from black to white, and back to black again (without going through all the dialog boxes). Is there a way to change the status of a system variable to edit-able if it is read only (ie: CurrentProfile)? Is there a...