A Customer Case shows why hydraulic cylinders for injection mold slides must be sized for both slide movement and the...
Tag Archives: Mechanical Locking
Broken Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder: How to Investigate the Real Cause of a Failure
A Customer case shows how Vega investigated a broken self-locking hydraulic cylinder by analyzing hardness, pressure, preload, cycles, mounting and...
How to Protect a Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder from Overpressure, Shock and Premature Wear: A Customer Case
A real Customer case shows how hydraulic pressure, flow control, end-of-stroke speed and mechanical locking affect the reliability of hydraulic...
Why Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder Locking Segments Can Break: Causes, Diagnosis and Prevention
Discover the main causes of broken locking segments in self-locking hydraulic cylinders, including excessive speed, preload and overload....
V270CG vs V260CF: What’s Really Changed?
The V270CG represents the second generation of Vega self-locking hydraulic cylinders. While maintaining the proven mechanical locking principle of the...