Pick the right application and a miniature hydraulic system will be perfect for you or your customer. It can provide a dedicated hydraulic system for your specific task rather than sharing a complicated system, have a very small space envelope and can be incredibly cost effective. After 40 years, we have seen how our customers [...]
How Big Hydraulics keeps London running smoothly. What caught our eye from The Shard? The Shard, next door to London Bridge Station, is the UK’s tallest building at 306m and one of the iconic landmarks of London. Opened in February 2013 after four years of construction, its 95 floors house hotels, apartments, restaurants and offices [...]
Why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first? We wrote a thoughtful blog on low pressure hydraulics last year and asked the question "why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first?”. The article generated a lot of interest and we have had endless discussion over it. Designers love a chat! Our premise was [...]
How innovative hydraulics, advanced optoelectronics and clever control could just be the dream ticket for a hydroponic future. Farming underground, in your attic and in a factory unit using high tech lighting and hydroponics is a great tech story for the press. But is it the start of what will become a massive [...]
Where a neat aerospace electro-hydraulic actuator might point the way on future mobile hydraulics. Sarum Hydraulics loves innovative hydraulic design. There is always something interesting that a clever hydraulic designer comes up with whether it is aerospace, offshore, marine, mobile or the myriad other fluid power applications. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) [...]
The craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, may have started in the thirteenth century, but there’s good reason why jutaku has more recently exploded in popularity outside Japan. These micro houses are often built on unused, “leftover” land —urban infill, in the truest sense of the term. We’re talking [...]
Has silicon graphics made the pencil redundant for designers and creative minds? Whether you were Leonardo da Vinci, Enzo Ferrari or even the Mad Men, a pencil and some paper had always been the way to download your creative thoughts from your mind, play about with them and share them with other people. Fabriano started [...]
Green with envy: With engine-makers’ revenues potentially totalling $1trillion over the next 20 years, who is leading the design race for greener jet travel? With the aviation industry striving to achieve big reductions in fuel consumption by 2020, who is in pole position? Engineering gets exciting when aero engine titans are next to each other [...]
At Lymington Yacht Haven, Sarum Hydraulics regularly spots the most beautiful Hinckley 36 foot Picnic Boat, fitted with a pair of simply monstrous 400 horsepower Hamilton water jet drives. What’s the story on this boat? Where are we with jet drives? Has their time come for the mass market? A stroll round Southampton Boat Show [...]
Southampton Boat Week is the big deal on the Solent this week. We love it with its fabulous yachts afloat on the pontoons alongside a busy working port. As ever, the Old Salts at Sarum HQ are reminding us (again) that the two best days for a yachtsman are the day you buy it and [...]
