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How to Analyze Gear Failures
When an important gear failure occurs, someone becomes responsible for analyzing the failure, determining its cause and recommending a solution. A company can select its own engineer, an...
Demonstration on How to Properly Install a Shaft-Mount Gear Unit
Proper shaft mounting reduces the load on bearings and extends the life expectancy of your equipment. In this short video clip, learn the tools necessary and...
9 Tips for Shopping Online for Triathlon Gear
Believe it or not, buying your tri gear online is easy—if you know how to do it.
What is the Most Important Piece of Information Needed for Vibration Analysis?
Is it bearing information, number of poles, frame size, number of gears, impellers, blades, horse power, operating voltage, motor type, manufacturer, number of belts, sheave size, or tooth count? Nope! None of the above. All of the above information is great to have when analyzing vibration data, but the single most important item that is …
Understanding Gears, Gear Metrology, & Gear Measurement
Have you ever driven a car? Ever used an elevator? What about watching the wing flaps move up and down while staring out the window on a boring flight from Detroit to Des Moines? Whether you know it or not, these things all rely on gears to translate forces into rotational motion. The list doesn’t …
What Are the Key Approaches in Gearbox Selection?
Over the years, gears and gearboxes have been used for several industrial operations. They are not only an excellent tool to increase the operational output, but also transmit rotational force required for a device to move. Considering the increasing demands, most of the businesses choose high-quality, branded gearboxes for consistent and smooth operations. Thus, selecting a gearbox is an important task. There are various types of…
Why Bother With Retractable Gear?
Planes with retractable gear cost weight and money, not to mention the risk of gear-up landings. So why pilots are still infatuated with them?
When to choose a worm or helical gear
It may be conventional wisdom that using a helical gearbox design will lead to more system efficiency than using a worm gear design.
STEM Made Easy: Gearing Up for Robotics
From robots that vacuum your floor to those that can cook you dinner or perform surgery, robotics plays an important part in our lives. Learning how to program, design, and maybe even compete with …
When it Comes to Custom Team Gear, Let Technology Help
There’s a tongue-in-cheek saying going around these days in the tech world that, at some point in the not-so-distant future, we’re all going to lose our job to robots.
Keeping the Gears in Motion: How IIoT Drives Predictive Maintenance
Unplanned machine downtime can disrupt operations, diminish employee productivity, and generate high costs for emergency repairs. IIoT devices offer an effective solution by transmitting data on temperature, vibration, friction, and other factors, enablin...
Sync Gear: How World War I Fighters Avoided Damaging Their Own Propellers
Did you ever wonder how World War I machine gun operators were able to fire from the air without damaging their propellers? Sync gear, also known as an int
How to Care for Outdoor Gear
Learn how to extend the life of your performance wear, activewear and outdoor gear.
Compression Gear: Help or Hype?
Find out whether compression gear can really improve performance and speed recovery.
Unusual Gear the Pros Use—and Why You Need It Too
Have you always wondered what some of the gear is that pro cyclists use? We break down what it is and why you need it.
New or Used? Your Guide to Buying Outdoor Gear
Not everything you need for the outdoors has to be bought brand new. This outdoor gear guide will help you answer the question—"buy new or used?"
Three Overlooked Outdoor Gear Brands You Should Know
Outdoor gear brands from U.S.-assembled optics, a veteran Scandinavian apparel manufacturer, to a gear label from the Appalachian heartland.
Your Essential Women’s Soccer Gear Guide — Find The Perfect Products
When it comes to gearing up, make sure what you suit up in is built to match your particular set of skills and your position’s requirements with our Women's Soccer Gear Guide.
How to spot counterfeit sports gear
“Whether you go down and steal someone’s purse and hit him over the head or you make counterfeit gear that keeps people from working, it’s still stealing.”
