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A Guide To Working With A Heating Oil Company

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When you're trying to heat your building, it means looking into the different sources that are available to you. Your decisions related to finding a heating oil company will play a large role in how you manage your residential or commercial energy, your budget, and so much more. In this article, you can learn more about heating oil, why it's beneficial, and how you can use it as a resource.

30 March 2021

Masonry Tools You'll Need for DIY Projects

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Will you soon be working on a project that might require some masonry skills? If you are going to do it all yourself instead of hiring a professional, you'll need to make sure you have plenty of masonry supplies so you can get the job done right. To that end, here are some of the tools that every beginning masonry worker should have available to them. 1. A Mason's Hammer 

25 November 2020

Finding The Best Custom Rubber Parts Supplier As A High-Volume Customer

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As a high-volume manufacturer, finding the best rubber parts supplier is ever-important. Here are a few ways to make sure you find the best.  Does the company allow digital uploads of your specifications for the parts you need? When you have a new idea for a new part and want to submit your designs, it is better if your supplier can offer an easy-to-use platform where you can submit the imagery and specs digitally.

21 September 2020

Helpful Tips When Choosing Metric Fasteners

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Metric fasteners are used in many industries and are great at joining materials together. If you need to purchase some for an upcoming work project, these tips will help you make the right selection that works out perfectly.  Decide Between Standard and Custom Fasteners In terms of how fasteners are designed, there are primarily two options. Either you can have them custom made from scratch or you can order standard fasteners.

29 July 2020

Self-Tightening Pipe Fittings: What You Need To Know

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There are as many different pipe fittings as there are sizes of pipe. There are even self-tightening pipe fittings. Rather than automatically screwing themselves together, however, these pipe fittings require just a little bit of manual assistance before they are completely snug and holding two ends of pipe together. Here are a few other things you need to know about these kinds of pipe fittings.  Different Types of Self-Tightening Along with being different from other types of fittings, these particular fittings all have different mechanical means of tightening "

17 December 2019

Discover If A Forklift Will Benefit Your Warehouse Operations

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A smaller business operation that contains a shipping and receiving department may rely heavily upon manpower to get things from point A to point B. If your computer refurbishing company has recently expanded and you are going to be operating out of a much larger facility, the possibility of using heavy duty equipment to assist with work tasks may have crossed your mind. A forklift is a machine that you could benefit from having at your disposal.

9 November 2019

3 Reasons Custom Carbide Inserts Are Worth The Extra Cost

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When purchasing carbide inserts for your tools, you might normally just purchase carbide inserts that are commercially available. Instead, though, you can order custom carbide inserts that are made to your specifications, such as by being made in the size and exact shape that you need. As with many things that you can custom order, custom carbide inserts can be a little more expensive than carbide inserts that can be purchased off of the shelf.

25 September 2019

How To Make Better Use Of Your Industrial Shelving Structures

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In an industrial environment, using industrial shelving structures for storing supplies, inventory and more is pretty common. You might already have shelving units in place that are used on a daily basis, for example, but you might not be making the best possible use out of them. A few ways that your business can get more out of your industrial shelving structures have been outlined here. Choose the Right Shelving Units

8 May 2019

7 Questions To Ask When Renting A Crane

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Need to lift a big piece of furniture out of an upper-story window? Want help moving some beams to the upper level of a structure you're building? Trying to move a large, heavy object? If you are attempting a task like this, you need a crane. To ensure you rent the right crane, ask the rental company the following questions. 1. What Is the Maximum Weight Capacity? Arguably, the most important question you should ask when renting a crane is how much weight it can hold.

5 February 2019

Secondary Effects Of Humidity And Other Weather On Rubber Parts

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Proper care of rubber and other materials gives your equipment a better chance of lasting a very long time with few issues. If you haven't been careful to keep the humidity levels stable and haven't been able to protect rubber parts from rain and other bad weather, you know that the parts could fail earlier than expected. You also need to be aware of the secondary effects of bad environmental conditions on the items the rubber parts are holding together or are covering up.

21 September 2018