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  1. Foxtrap

    Specifying a Welding Procedure

    Howdy all, I am about to write my first welding procedure. How do I start? It is for an Oil Prodution pressure body. Is there any tips about what is my responsibility as the designer and the responsibility of the fabricator. Where can I find help on welding joint design, number of passes, any...
  2. Foxtrap

    Wafer or Lug?

    Howdy, I am new at picking valves. I don't know if I have enough information to pick the right one. I was asked to find quotes for an 8" butterfly valve, sour-trimmed, air actuated to be used in an abrasive service application. As I started researching them I have discovered some two types of...
  3. Foxtrap

    Can PVC be NACE approved for Sour Service?

    I was told to research butterfly valves to put in a PVC piping system. I was also asked to make sure that the valve was sour trimmed. I never thought that PVC would be able to be used in sour conditions. Is that right?
  4. Foxtrap

    Hydrodynamic Seals, are they all they're cracked up to be?

    Howdy, I am working on a mostly rotating but sometimes static application and, like engineers before and probably always will till the end of time, I am having sealing issues. Unfortunately this is a project I am stepping into therefore am trying to figure out the reasoning of the first...
  5. Foxtrap

    Using Vault and a Customized Content Library

    Our company is currently putting all of our Inventor models and drawings into Vault. Just before this I was in the process of customizing the Inventor Content Library to reflect our part numbers that we use for standard fasteners/o-rings/etc.. I put that library into Vault but now when I want...
  6. Foxtrap

    Standards

    Has anyone ever heard of IHS. They are a online company that sell books/technical material(paper and online)on standards. You may also apply for a subscription to browse their document collections. The website is: http://www.ihs.com/index.html. Has anyone used their services before? Waste of...
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    Metric O-ring Size Code

    What is the typical way to specify a metric o-ring? Imperial is 2 or 8 for o-ring or backup and then the series #, is there a way that you do this for metric ones?

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