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Guide-Wheel System: Properties, Selection & Sizing
Paper dust particulates wreak havoc with just about every aspect of paper converting machinery, especially the bearings. Linear guides, planar bearings and shafts, even with wipers, lubricators, scrapers ...


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Caterpillar Opens Its Doors
Caterpillar's new testing group, Engine Systems Technologies and Solutions, is inviting other manufacturers of equipment from engines to construction machinery to avail themselves of its services. The company maintains the machines and the instruments to test engine emissions, noise, and vibration, and has already begun working with engine components suppliers and makers of after-treatment equ...


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The Case of the Capricious Carburetor
My e-mail reply to A recent comment by a reader of these "Calamities" columns brought back my memory of a bizarre incident involving an engine-powered lift truck. While employed as a staff engineer for what was then a major fork lift manufacturer, I got a request to assist the eastern zone service manager in analyzing the cause of an alleged forklift "run-away.


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The Anadromous Strain
It was author John McPhee that I first learned the word anadromous. It describes salmon, shad, and other fish who swim uphill from salt to fresh water to breed. A writer would appreciate McPhee's applying it in a completely different context, to that of ships entering the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico.


The Grueling Race to Boost Failing Hearts
It's a medical marketer's dream: Offer a safe implantable blood pump for patients dying from end-stage heart failure. With nearly 5 million Americans suffering from that disease—and another 400,000 new cases diagnosed each year—experts have pegged the potential market for ventricular-assist devices (VADs) at 70,000 in the U.