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When a joint needs a spring the catalogue does not carry, the answer is not

When the standard range does not fit: special sizes and custom development

Disc spring tolerances are specified in four places: overall height, thickness, load and diameter. Each

How to read a disc spring drawing: the tolerances that decide whether it fits

A flat washer spreads load. A load washer spreads load and stores energy. Load washers

Load washers, HS and HDS: when a specialty disc spring beats a flat washer

The fastest route to a part number is usually: search the standard range in the

From CAD model to quote in an afternoon: the shortest route to the right part

Disc springs for automotive applications have to do three difficult things at once: deliver high

Turbochargers, shock absorbers and brake boosters: what a car asks of a spring

Impact duty punishes springs. Disc springs for machine tools cope because they are largely self

Stamping machines, spindles and percussion drills: springs that live under impact

Offshore drills and safety valves ask for everything at once: high force in a small

Offshore drills and safety valves: high load joints in hostile places

Stationary railway clamps, ski lift cable clamps and emergency brakes in elevators are all joints

Rail clamps, ski lifts and elevator brakes: joints that must not move for twenty years

A spring that is correctly sized and wrongly specified will still fail. Heat relaxes it,

Heat, salt water and magnets: choosing the right material for a spring or washer

A disc spring is a cone shaped washer that carries load along its axis. On

Disc spring stacks: how series and parallel stacking changes the force you get

Most of the questions we take in Ann Arbor are some version of the same

Type S or type VS: how to pick the right safety washer, and fit it properly

Every maintenance engineer has seen the same failure. A joint that was torqued correctly at

Why bolted joints come loose under vibration, and what actually holds them