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Thanks for the reply's. A few details: these are sand castings and we are not using any exotic alloys or grades of steel. My question/point about US foundry capacity was that it doesn't pass the smell test. We have one foundry supporting our needs (we are about 25% of their business) and I...

My company started having a lot of problems with one our primary casting suppliers. It turns out that there have been some significant changes and this company will no longer be an option in the future. The company supplies sand castings ranging between 50 and about 800 pounds. It isn't my job...

Even when showing models and assemblies?

Has anyone used a good web meeting software? I just had a web meeting and it was horrible. I used Microsoft Live Meeting. It was not good but OK when I was showing the powerpoint, but when I was showing models it was awful. Kept locking up the refresh was bad. Any suggestions?

Adalius- We have found that lock wire doesn't really work as a retention device but more like an indicator (if lock wire is broken you bolt is loose. Nordlocks do work very well but I don't have the counter bore.

I like the last on Mike

It is backing out due to vibration. We are including a perminate fix we designed

Is there a more technical way of saying that a bolt is backing out? I am writing a service bulletin and want to let the customer know that a bolt tends to back out over time.

Thanks for the tip dgallup. Since I was working in an assembly and wanting to show and hide various components I was trying to use the group selection. I guess since Pro considers a group a feature in the model tree that is how they want you to select it. It seems odd that there is a group...

Thanks for the replies. I was hopping that the part in question was something I could buy off the shelf, cheap and easy.

I have a large assembly with 2 different versions. I have all the components shown in the generic and two instances. I would like to simplify my family table by grouping. Group 1 is shown in instance 1 and group 2 is shown in instance 2. I can add components to the family table, but when I...

I have two rollers in Hertzian contact. One roller is driving the other. I put a coating on one roller and want to determine how much it helps. I have the ability to determine the RPM & torque of both rollers. This seems like a simple enough case that it could be tested with some ASTM code, but...

I was wanting it to be a one piece thing, I checked both reid and mcmaster but they didn't have anything. It was kind of a shot in the dark to see if anyone had com across something like that and knew what it was called. Thanks for the input.

You can see the attached poorly drawn sketch, but I am looking for something kind of like a shoulder bolt but the shoulder part is a lot bigger than the bolt part. (Something in the neighborhood of a 1" shoulder to a 0.25" threaded) This is not going to see any load it is a target for a prox...

One of my professors told me that ammonia is a superior refrigerant because of the reasons listed above, but because of small leaks that early systems were prone to they switched because of the smell.