Extending maintenance intervals: drifting into failure?

IN JANUARY 2000 an Alaskan Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 jet crashed into the Pacific Ocean off California killing all 88 people on board.

Turning toolmaking into rocket science

ALAN Reid’s toolmaking career began in the late 1960s and he has been involved in a number of slightly weird but always wonderful projects over the years.

Big is good: the case for long-wheelbase vans

Some company fleet buyers are now turning to long-wheelbase delivery vans in preference to light trucks with box bodies. Provided that the Gross Vehicle Mass (GVM) is less than 4.5 tonnes, these vans can be driven on a Class One passenger vehicle licence. However, should that tonnage be exceeded then a Class Two heavy transport licence is required.

Unique and cost effective pulse encoder

A LARGE number of modern applications call for some form of motor speed and/or position monitoring – be it just so a system knows the motor is rotating and in which direction, or to know the actual position of the machine.

Crusher exceeds expectations at Hunua

THE first Metso HP4 crusher installed in Australasia has achieved impressive crushing efficiencies and increased capacity at Winstone Aggregates’ Hunua Quarry.

PAINT applicators and end users – for example, hospitals, rest homes, schools, the hotel industry and food processing plants – are not aware that acrylic paints applied to the interior of buildings can be the biggest contributor to indoor air pollution.