Category: Hydraulics

My buddy can find strange things. On a recent trip to the dump he found a worn out air conditioner compressor with the shaft broken off. Trash right?Well not for him; he wanted to melt it down and...

Pneumatic cylinders can work best in the fully extended or retracted positions. Midstroke position can't be held due to the compressibility of air If you have any experience using pneumatic...

If you have ever used a pneumatic or air cylinder, you know that they only have 2 positions: fully retracted or fully extended. There is no middle ground. In fact, due to the compressibility of...

Over the past 20 years, most of the hydraulic systems I've worked on have been between 2500 psi and 3000 psi (165 to 207 bar). There have been a few subsystems where the pressure was less (600 psi,...

Over the years, I have made and seen some bad hydraulic system designs. For the most part, these have be easily fixed. Others we just suffered through the consequences of bad design. Let's take a...

I was over at my neighbor's house watching him split wood. His father and uncle had built this log splitter nearly 20 years ago. Being that this was some redneck engineering going on, it worked,...