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89 relations: Agricultural machinery, Axle, Babbitt (alloy), Bearing (mechanical), Bearing surface, Bogie, Break-in (mechanical run-in), Bronze, Capillary action, Cash register, Cast iron, Ceramic, Chemically inert, Clothes dryer, Corrosion, Crankshaft, Dowel, Dry lubricant, Electromagnetism, Felt, Flange, Fluid bearing, Fluid dynamics, Frelon (material), Friction, Galling, Garnet, Gemstone, Graphalloy, Graphite, Grease (lubricant), Great Western Railway, Groove (engineering), Hardened steel, Heat, Hinge, Hot box, Injection moulding, Interchangeable parts, Lathe, Leather, Lignum vitae, Linear-motion bearing, List of copper alloys, List of railroad truck parts, Locomotive, Lubrication, Medical device, Metre per second, Nickel silver, ..., Nylon, Oil, Oilite, Oven, Parting line, Pascal (unit), Photocopier, Piano, Pillow block bearing, Plain bearing, Plastigauge, Polyether ether ketone, Polyimide, Polyoxymethylene, Polytetrafluoroethylene, Polyurethane, Pounds per square inch, Pressure, Pump, Railroad car, Retaining ring, Ring oiler, Rotation around a fixed axis, Ruby, Rulon (plastic), SAE International, Sapphire, Self-lubricating chain, Shim (spacer), Sintering, Slide plate, Steel, Stuffing box, Surface feet per minute, Thermal expansion, Thrust bearing, Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene, Vespel, Wheelset (rail transport). Expand index (39 more) »
Agricultural machinery
Agricultural machinery is machinery used in farming or other agriculture.
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Axle
An axle is a central shaft for a rotating wheel or gear.
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Babbitt (alloy)
Babbitt, also called Babbitt metal or bearing metal, is any of several alloys used for the bearing surface in a plain bearing.
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Bearing (mechanical)
A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.
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Bearing surface
A bearing surface is a mechanical engineering term that refers to the area of contact between two objects.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Break-in (mechanical run-in)
Break-in or breaking in, also known as run-in or running in, is the procedure of conditioning a new piece of equipment by giving it an initial period of running, usually under light load, but sometimes under heavy load or normal load.
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Bronze
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon.
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Capillary action
Capillary action (sometimes capillarity, capillary motion, capillary effect, or wicking) is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, external forces like gravity.
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Cash register
A cash register, also referred to as a till in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale.
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Cast iron
Cast iron is a group of iron-carbon alloys with a carbon content greater than 2%.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is a non-metallic solid material comprising an inorganic compound of metal, non-metal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.
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Chemically inert
In chemistry, the term chemically inert is used to describe a substance that is not chemically reactive.
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Clothes dryer
A clothes dryer, tumble dryer, drying machine or dryer is a powered household appliance that is used to remove moisture from a load of clothing, bedding and other textiles, usually shortly after they are washed in a washing machine.
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Corrosion
Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more chemically-stable form, such as its oxide, hydroxide, or sulfide.
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Crankshaft
A crankshaft—related to crank—is a mechanical part able to perform a conversion between reciprocating motion and rotational motion.
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Dowel
A dowel is a cylindrical rod, usually made from wood, plastic, or metal.
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Dry lubricant
Dry lubricants or solid lubricants are materials that, despite being in the solid phase, are able to reduce friction between two surfaces sliding against each other without the need for a liquid oil medium.
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Electromagnetism
Electromagnetism is a branch of physics involving the study of the electromagnetic force, a type of physical interaction that occurs between electrically charged particles.
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Felt
Felt is a textile material that is produced by matting, condensing and pressing fibers together.
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Flange
A flange is an external or internal ridge, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange of an iron beam such as an I-beam or a T-beam; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc., or on the lens mount of a camera; or for a flange of a rail car or tram wheel.
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Fluid bearing
Fluid bearings are bearings in which the load is supported by a thin layer of rapidly moving pressurized liquid or gas between the bearing surfaces.
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Fluid dynamics
In physics and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids - liquids and gases.
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Frelon (material)
Frelon is a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) based material with other proprietary fillers to increase bearing characteristics, such as low wear, low friction, and high strength.
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Friction
Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other.
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Galling
Galling is a form of wear caused by adhesion between sliding surfaces.
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Garnet
Garnets are a group of silicate minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives.
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Gemstone
A gemstone (also called a gem, fine gem, jewel, precious stone, or semi-precious stone) is a piece of mineral crystal which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.
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Graphalloy
Graphalloy is a group of metal impregnated graphite materials.
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Graphite
Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.
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Grease (lubricant)
Grease is a semisolid lubricant.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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Groove (engineering)
In manufacturing or mechanical engineering a groove is a long and narrow indentation built into a material, generally for the purpose of allowing another material or part to move within the groove and be guided by it.
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Hardened steel
The term hardened steel is often used for a medium or high carbon steel that has been given heat treatment and then quenching followed by tempering.
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Heat
In thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one system to another as a result of thermal interactions.
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Hinge
A hinge is a mechanical bearing that connects two solid objects, typically allowing only a limited angle of rotation between them.
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Hot box
A hot box is the term used when an axle bearing overheats on a piece of railway rolling stock.
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Injection moulding
Injection moulding (British English) or injection molding (American English) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould.
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Interchangeable parts
Interchangeable parts are parts (components) that are, for practical purposes, identical.
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Lathe
A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.
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Leather
Leather is a durable and flexible material created by tanning animal rawhides, mostly cattle hide.
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Lignum vitae
Lignum vitae is a wood, also called guayacan or guaiacum, and in parts of Europe known as pockholz, from trees of the genus Guaiacum.
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Linear-motion bearing
A linear-motion bearing or linear slide is a bearing designed to provide free motion in one direction.
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List of copper alloys
Copper alloys are metal alloys that have copper as their principal component.
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List of railroad truck parts
A bogie or railroad truck holds the wheel sets of a rail vehicle.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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Lubrication
Lubrication is the process or technique of using a lubricant to reduce friction and/or wear in a contact between two surfaces.
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Medical device
A medical device is any apparatus, appliance, software, material, or other article—whether used alone or in combination, including the software intended by its manufacturer to be used specifically for diagnostic and/or therapeutic purposes and necessary for its proper application—intended by the manufacturer to be used for human beings for the purpose of.
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Metre per second
Metre per second (American English: meter per second) is an SI derived unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity which specifies both magnitude and a specific direction), defined by distance in metres divided by time in seconds.
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Nickel silver
Nickel silver, Maillechort, German silver, Argentan, new silver, nickel brass, albata, alpacca, or electrum is a copper alloy with nickel and often zinc.
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Nylon
Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, based on aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides.
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Oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").
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Oilite
Oilite is a porous bronze or iron alloy commonly impregnated with an oil lubricant and used in bearings.
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Oven
An oven is a thermally insulated chamber used for the heating, baking, or drying of a substance, and most commonly used for cooking.
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Parting line
A parting line, in industrial casting of molds, is the border line in which draft angles change direction.
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Pascal (unit)
The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the SI derived unit of pressure used to quantify internal pressure, stress, Young's modulus and ultimate tensile strength.
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Photocopier
A photocopier (also known as a copier or copy machine) is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pillow block bearing
A pillow block is a pedestal used to provide support for a rotating shaft with the help of compatible bearings & various accessories.
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Plain bearing
A plain bearing, or more commonly sliding bearing and slide bearing (in railroading sometimes called a solid bearing or friction bearing), is the simplest type of bearing, comprising just a bearing surface and no rolling elements.
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Plastigauge
Plastigauge is a measuring tool used for measuring plain bearing clearances, such as in engines.
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Polyether ether ketone
Polyether ether ketone (PEEK) is a colourless organic thermoplastic polymer in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family, used in engineering applications.
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Polyimide
Polyimide (sometimes abbreviated PI) is a polymer of imide monomers.
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Polyoxymethylene
Polyoxymethylene (POM), also known as acetal, polyacetal, and polyformaldehyde, is an engineering thermoplastic used in precision parts requiring high stiffness, low friction, and excellent dimensional stability.
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Polytetrafluoroethylene
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Pounds per square inch
The pound per square inch or, more accurately, pound-force per square inch (symbol: lbf/in2; abbreviation: psi) is a unit of pressure or of stress based on avoirdupois units.
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Pressure
Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed.
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Pump
A pump is a device that moves fluids (liquids or gases), or sometimes slurries, by mechanical action.
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Railroad car
A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).
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Retaining ring
A retaining ring is a fastener that holds components or assemblies onto a shaft or in a housing/bore when installed in a groove.
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Ring oiler
A ring oiler or oil ring is a form of oil-lubrication system for bearings.
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Rotation around a fixed axis
Rotation around a fixed axis or about a fixed axis of revolution or motion with respect to a fixed axis of rotation is a special case of rotational motion.
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Ruby
A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide).
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Rulon (plastic)
Rulon is the trade name for a family of PTFE plastics produced by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics.
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SAE International
SAE International, initially established as the Society of Automotive Engineers, is a U.S.-based, globally active professional association and standards developing organization for engineering professionals in various industries.
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Sapphire
Sapphire is a precious gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum, an aluminium oxide.
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Self-lubricating chain
Self-lubricating chains, also referred to as lube-free chains, are commonly found in both roller chain (ANSI Standards, British Standards, and DIN Standards) and conveyor chain varieties, with specialty self-lubricating chains also available.
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Shim (spacer)
A shim is a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material, used to fill small gaps or spaces between objects.
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Sintering
Clinker nodules produced by sintering Sintering is the process of compacting and forming a solid mass of material by heat or pressure without melting it to the point of liquefaction.
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Slide plate
A slide plate is linear bearing such as may be part of the expansion joints of bridges, high temperature horizontal ducts of water-tube boilers and other mechanical or structural engineering applications.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon and other elements.
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Stuffing box
A stuffing box is an assembly which is used to house a gland seal.
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Surface feet per minute
Surface feet per minute (SFPM or SFM) is the combination of a physical quantity (surface speed) and an imperial and American customary unit (feet per minute).
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Thermal expansion
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature.
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Thrust bearing
A thrust bearing is a particular type of rotary bearing.
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Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE, UHMW) is a subset of the thermoplastic polyethylene.
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Vespel
Vespel is the trademark of a range of durable high-performance polyimide-based plastics manufactured by DuPont.
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Wheelset (rail transport)
A wheelset is the wheel - axle assembly of a railroad car.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_bearing
