Remote Control Lawn Mowers For Slope Mowing Applications Today’s popular zero-turn riding mowers are generally rated to safely handle up to a 30 degree incline without risking injury to the operator. A lawn care professional has to equip 5 or 6 of his crew members with profit eating string trimmers when it comes time to […]
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Pressure Basics – Air and Hydrostatic
Air compressors are relatively common machines that have practically become a household item owing both to its increasingly affordable price as well as the various functions it’s capable of performing from pumping bicycle tires to air-cleaning to the running of air tools. Loosely speaking, air compressors consist of a compressor unit which compresses the air […]
Let Hydrostatic Pressure Testing Find Out – Can it Take the Pressure?
Hydrostatic Pressure Testing is a nondestructive testing (NDT) method of finding leaks or verifying performance and durability in pressure vessels such as pipe, tubing, and coils. Although this is considered nondestructive testing and failures are rare, they can occur when the test piece does not meet performance or durability specifications and may render the piece […]
Hydrostatic Pressure Test Safety Checklist
According to ASME Section VIII Division I, hydrostatic pressure is conducted at the pressure of 1.5 times design pressure. If a vessel is design for holding 1.0 kg/cm2.g pressure, the hydrostatic pressure test has to be done at 1.5 kg/cm2.g. Hydrostatic test is also applied to existing equipments and pipe lines to check for leakage […]