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This mini tabletop diode laser takes photos of obsolete gaskets and includes its own CAD system so you can sketch the cutting profile. If you are in a business where you often need gaskets to repair old equipment it's a real timesaver. As well,it can make better quality gaskets than are often provided with new equipment.
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Burlington, Ontario company Vac-Aero specializes in high temperature vacuum furnaces for heat treatment of aircraft parts. Thanks to a big order from Seattle Washington USA based Boeing Aircraft They will be spending the next 48 weeks building heat treatment furnaces for the worlds premier aircraft manufacturer.
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Forest fires have released poisonous dioxins and furans into our atmosphere for thousands upon thousands of years and will contunue to do so. The wood burning fireplaces that we have loved for hundreds of years are no different. Restricting an air curtain incinerator which is designed to reduce dioxin and furan emissions from burning disaster waste materials makes so sense. Especially since the time it will be running will produce almost zero emissions compared to what is already in the atmosphere.
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How many times do we lose the retaining pins for the 2 wheel hand truck, you can always have spares available by making a jig like this.
Just putting multiple hole locations in the base would allow you to bend up a wide variety of custom retaining pins that you could use for a thousand different applications
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Yale University Professor W.Edwards Deming laid the groundwork for the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing but was completely ignored when he tried to interest USA auto manufacturing companies about the importance of quality and zero defects in the 1950's.
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China makes 96% of the worlds dry shipping containers and 100% of the refrigerated ones. All from a product that was invented and perfected in the USA by a truck driver who went on to start his own international shipping company.
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Bry-Air dessicant rotors Ltd in Gurgaon India has developed a new dessicant technology that it says makes large industrial size dehumidifiers much more efficient
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MRI machines cost hundreds of thousands of dollars but Ultrasound machines are everywhere. This Ontario, Canada company has come up with a 3D Scanner attachment that practically turns any ultrasound machine into an MRI scanner.
It creates 3D images of pathology that allows doctors to see blood vessels, tissue and accurately diagnose problems right in their own offices.
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Very cool looking Corten steel perforated metal facade protects the outside of this building in Tbilisi, the capital city of Georgia.
The whole facades is made up of massive doors with remote control actuators that open up to reveal the windows
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UK Company AUAR is betting on its robot house framing carpenter to build wall, floor and roof panels in record time with great accuracy.
Prefabricating wood frame wall panels indoors inplant is already a much more efficient way of building homes quickly.
Using the robot carpenter and especially the panel fixture will drive up accuracy, repeatability and speed and allow the actual human carpenter to save their body.
Letting the Robot do all the heavy hauling while the human Carpenter programs the robot for the next house.
Baghouses are vital a piece of anti polltion equipment for the clean operation of modern municipal waste incinerators. But the important caveat is that these incinerators must be kept continuously working 24/7 365 days a year holding constant high combustionn temperatures.
Any time the combustion temperature drops unburned pollutant vapours get through the secondary combustion process and condense into corrosive liquids inside the baghouse.
This article goes into ways to prevent this but it underscores how important it is to keep the incinerator operating for total combustion so that pollutants dont get out the stack
An Aluminum foundry in Georgia, USA recently had a Baghouse dust explosion that shows just how dangerous aluminum dust can be.
Of all dusts, aluminum is one of the most explosive, even in tiny concentrations. A significant amount of money has to be spent on safety equipment just to manage the threat of a potential blast.
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If you have lots of leaves to clean up in the fall your local city may not want to clean them up anymore, even if you push them to the curb.
Investing in a leaf pelletizing machine might be a bad idea if you have a pellet stove or fireplace.
Bigger versions of these machines would even be good for municipalities who could get into the sale of pellet fuel to fund their waste operations.
This Pakistan vendor manufactures his own water cooler and designs the cooling system from scratch literally from the ground up.
Great brazing skills, figures out the right R134a refrigerant charge, makes use of spare parts easily available from other equipment. Understands how refrigeration works.
Take this guy and set him up doing refrigerator repair in the USA and he would make millions
We used a 400,000 diesel fired construction heater from Rentals247.ca to clear dangerous ice and snow off the roof of this 53 foot trailer so there would be no danger to cars following behind.
There was one duct up on the roof held on place by our home made support and another duct inside the trailer getting rid of all the snow in a matter of hours
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The demolition of a dividing wall between an ice rink and a swimming pool caused all sorts of humidity problems in this popular Squamish , B.C, Canada recreation facility.
Rental dehumidiifers had to brought in when almost 100% humid air from the pool mixed with dehumidified air for the ice rink. The poor swimmers were freezing and the hockey players couldnt see each other in the fog
In Chennai, Tamil Nadu residents are complaining of continuing smoke and emissions form a 50 ton continuous municipal waste incinerator.
Continous smoke is never a good sign. If an incinerator is burning waste completely there should be no visible smoke. The whole idea of modern dual chamber incinerators is to completely burn all products of combustion.
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This German pollution measuring drone can do a better job of tracking air pollution and particulate matter than ground based measurung stations. Air pollution is often found to be worse at altitudes of 100 meters which is a perfect environment for drone monitoring.
The device would also be a great tool for analyzing stack emissions on furnaces and incinerators. Not only could you determine how much emissions are coming out of the stack, you could determine in which direction and verify the particulates are being carried high enough into the atmosphere.
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This company is selling futuristic ADU's built in China with some amazing features. ADU's are small low cost houses that can be added to single family lots to provide more housing capacity.
Cities like Mississauga actively encourage this and have streamlined their building approval process for landowners with single family homes on suitably large plots of land
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