When do I have to use a double acting hydraulic cylinder and why? Sometimes, a double acting hydraulic cylinder circuit is the only way to achieve your requirements. What are basic design considerations? Single versus double acting cylinders. Sometimes your design needs push and pull. The single acting configuration is left and double [...]
How do you use a single acting hydraulic cylinder cheaply, effectively and safely? We are fans of single acting hydraulic cylinders if they work for your application. Read how. We would always start by asking whether we can use a single acting cylinder. Without a doubt, there are key reasons for using one if [...]
Four decades of experience have told us what is important to customers. For Professionals specifying hydraulic equipment, hand pumps are important. It must be reliable in an emergency, capable of handling specific fluids, and resistant to your operating environment. Let’s run through the design philosophy on a Micropac pump. Why do we recommend the [...]
High quality potable water from the tap is something we take for granted. Lots of people in the world don’t have this luxury. Image thanks to CV Water Consultancy. What is potable water and what should a designer know about working with it? What is potable water? Potable water is drinking water suitable for [...]
Why was the Tangye Hydrapak such a great concept hydraulic hand pump and why have today’s Hydrapak, HMP, MHX and PSP hand pumps all evolved that original design so well? An old Hydrapak product brochure. The Tangye Hydrapak was the original pump back in the 1960’s. It was a trailblazer. That classic unit [...]
Our Micropac MW pumps are often piped into systems rather than supplied on a reservoir with suction tube already in place. What suction tube is right, which is wrong, and how long can a suction tube be? This is a basic question, but not commonly asked. Maybe hydraulic engineers get on with it from [...]
Can I achieve a neat and cost effective hydraulic that runs on and on? Real world hacks that hydraulic designers use every time to make their projects a win. A very neat hydraulic installation in a JCB131X excavator. Don’t we all want our hydraulic system to be neat, come in at a [...]
Why use a pneumatic air driven pump on your hydraulics? Why do we sell air driven pumps? They are simply a great choice in the right application. We have manufactured our Micropac hand pumps for over 40 years and sell a lot of air driven pumps where they offer features that our manual pumps [...]
There are lots of hazardous areas in daily life and the larger world. We are focussed on one particular type that has been with us for a very long time. We all live amongst hazardous areas where there may be a risk of an explosive atmosphere. It is more common than you might [...]
This is quite a deep subject and worth an answer. This is our take after manufacturing this equipment for over 40 years. A pressure test rig seems to mean different things to our customers. Some see it as a basic carry-around hydrotest and at the other end of the spectrum it is floor standing [...]