6 Things To Look Out For When Selecting The Right Industrial Hose

Your system is only as durable as your weakest industrial hose. This statement works for any system and equipment that uses hoses. Even though hoses may look the same, they are highly sophisticated and diverse.

Choosing the wrong hose can lead to leaks, breakdowns, and potentially complete system failure. In order to select the right industrial hose, you need to take a careful approach to several parameters.

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A Quick Guide To Ball Valves

A ball valve is a simple, two-part, chambered control valve commonly used in hydraulic, pneumatic, and liquid plumbing systems. Ball valves are used to shut off the flow of liquid or gas, adjust it to a limited level, or redirect flow on a two-forked connector (when used in conjunction with another ball valve). A ball valve is omnidirectional (and can be used as such) but is usually used to control a one-way liquid or gas flow.

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What Are Service Plugs And What Features Should I Look For In One?

A service plug is a resistant device that can be placed in an open hydraulic pipeline or chamber inlet or outlet to stop leaks, spillages, and unintentional drainage. They are used when a machine has stopped and is being maintained and should never be used on a running hydraulic system, or one that is cooling after having recently been shut down.

Service plugs come in many different shapes and sizes to fit different types of hydraulic pipe and nozzle. They are usually a simple, high-resilience piece of moulded rubber shaped into a wedge, with a broad top ridge for easy removal. They’re used in industrial, plumbing, and catering machines, but are most popular for use in hydraulic control and maintenance.

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4 Effective Ways To Improve The Efficiency Of Your Pneumatic System

Improving the efficiency of your pneumatic system is central to minimising your manufacturing costs. Improving compressed air efficiency can cut electricity consumption by up to 50%: a significant saving for manufacturing companies! However, many operators are unaware that their pneumatic systems are performing inefficiently, even though a series of simple steps can make a significant difference. Continue reading “4 Effective Ways To Improve The Efficiency Of Your Pneumatic System”

How To Choose The Best Compression Fittings

Choosing the correct compression fittings for hydraulic systems is essential to ensure the quality of the seal, maintain optimum hose pressure, and reduce the possibility of torqueing. Incorrect, poorly fitted, or malfunctioning compression fittings pose a severe risk of injury. Despite their tiny size, compression fittings play a vital role in ensuring fluid transmission takes place safely, without the risk of hoses or tubes becoming detached.

With a wide variety of hydraulic compression fittings from which to choose, it’s important to have confidence that you’ve selected the correct components for your system, so consider the key points in this article before making your decision. Continue reading “How To Choose The Best Compression Fittings”

How To Prevent Dangerous Leaks In Hydraulic Hoses

A leak from a hydraulic hose spells danger. The highly pressured liquids used in hydraulic systems can pose a significant risk to personnel and property in the workplace, producing spillages that can cause slips and falls, creating a fire danger that could be potentially devastating. Chemical or corrosive liquids can cause life-changing injuries, such as severe burns, damage to eyesight or impaired breathing, and may also be carcinogenic.

Fortunately, leaking hoses are easy to spot, but administering repairs, as well as cleaning up spilled hydraulic fluids, is time-consuming and logistically difficult. Repairing damaged or worn hoses also means taking equipment out of service, affecting production and damaging profitability. As with many problems in industry, prevention – rather than the cure – is the best answer. Continue reading “How To Prevent Dangerous Leaks In Hydraulic Hoses”

What Is E-Crimp?

High quality hose assemblies are vital for the efficient and safe operation of hydraulic machinery. Incorrect hose assembly increases the potential for components to separate under extreme pressure, spraying hot fluid around the working environment. At the very least, this causes disruption to the production line while equipment is taken out of service and hydraulic fluid is cleaned up. In the worst case scenario, line operatives may be severely injured by hot or corrosive fluid, or hose whips.

Hydrastar supplies the full range of Gates crimping equipment to help you create robust and safe hose assemblies for your production line and minimise the possibility of hose lines separating – and the Gates eCrimp app will make your workshop even more efficient. Continue reading “What Is E-Crimp?”

Troubleshooting Steps To Resolve Problems With Pneumatic Systems

Pneumatic systems are complex so, when a problem occurs, it tends to fill the operator with dread. To avoid lost production time it is important to troubleshoot the problem in a logical step-by-step way. Compressed air is potentially dangerous if safety is not observed and can cause serious injury, so when you experience troubleshooting problems with pneumatic systems, make sure you follow these steps: Continue reading “Troubleshooting Steps To Resolve Problems With Pneumatic Systems”

4 Common Problems In Compressed Air Systems & How To Rectify Them

Compressed air systems offer many advantages, including improved economy, reliability, and energy efficiency. Their ease of use and versatility enable complex tasks to be completed more quickly compared to other power tools so, when technical problems occur, time, productivity and energy can be wasted.

Fortunately, some of the problems that affect compressed air systems are not complex and can be solved by taking some straightforward steps. Continue reading “4 Common Problems In Compressed Air Systems & How To Rectify Them”

Where Can I Buy Reliable Hydraulic Tube Fittings?

If you’re assembling hydraulic equipment, or need to upgrade components in an existing system, you must use high quality, durable and reliable hydraulic fittings. Components need to withstand excesses of pressure and temperature and any failure in the system could cause potentially catastrophic results, leading to damage to the equipment and serious injury to operators.

Consequently, it is important to have absolute confidence in the hydraulic fittings you use so you can contain, control and direct the flow of the hydraulic pressure while guaranteeing consistent and reliable service. Continue reading “Where Can I Buy Reliable Hydraulic Tube Fittings?”