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Tom-Thumb turbines power radio-controlled jets
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Engineers have managed to shrink the modern jet engine until it is small enough to fit in model planes.

Avoiding Design Problems with Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
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Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)  finds bad designs before parts get made.

Tricked-Out Trucks

Stylists and engineers are exploring new ways to personalize pickup trucks, the best-selling type of vehicle in the U.S.

Gulliver's Engines

Shrinking full-scale engines to pocket size is no small feat.

The meaning of bearing life

How long will a bearing last? Standardized life equations help to answer.

3D & 2D CAD Files

Our on-line CAD library contains 2D files in .dwg for AutoCAD and .dxf for other systems; and 3D files for Pro/Engineer and STEP. Access to our other on-line CAD drawings is now integrated into our on-line catalog.

Auto suspension design made easy

Lotus Engineering Suspension Analysis (LSA), the commercial version of software from Lotus Engineering in the U.K., quickly creates 2D and 3D kinematic models of standard suspensions using templates.

Industry Focus: Medical -- Rethinking the Wheelchair
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Using aerospace design and manufacturing techniques, a small company hopes to make it big in the wheelchair business.

Better Injection Molding Through Bubbles
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Supercritical gases injected into a polymer melt facilitate molding while lowering process costs to boot.

How to plastic-injection mold microscopic parts

The fundamental best practices of plastic design still apply for micromolding, just at a smaller scale.

100 years of Aircraft engines
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The 100th Anniversary of flight has us looking back at some evolutionary and revolutionary aircraft engines.

When lightning strikes wind turbines

It's not a matter of "if" but of “when” a wind turbine will see overvoltages and currents that must get bypassed to ground.

Damping Grease for Design

See how damping greases can cost-effectively control motion, noise and vibration in mechanical and electro-mechanical devices.

Big diggers

Giant-size mining projects depend on massive machines.

Gear Design: Breaking the status quo

Traditional gear design limits the performance of mechanical drives.

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