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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 Size Hydraulic Locking Cylinders for Injection Mold Slides
A practical guide to sizing hydraulic cylinders for locking injection-mold slides, including thrust force, traction force, injection pressure, cylinder selection...
When Injection Pressure Pushes a Punch Back: How to Size a Hydraulic Locking Cylinder
A real injection-mold application shows how injection pressure, punch area, holding force, preload and mechanical locking influence hydraulic cylinder selection....
How to Select the Correct Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder for an Injection Mold
Learn how to select a self-locking hydraulic cylinder by calculating cavity pressure, cylinder force, traction reserve, locking capacity, preload, breakaway...
The Engineering Problem: Dimensioning a Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder for an Injection Mold Slide
Learn how to correctly size a self-locking hydraulic cylinder for an injection mold slide by calculating injection force, extraction force,...
How to Size a Mechanical Self-Locking Hydraulic Cylinder for an Injection Mold
A detailed engineering analysis of CF030 and CF036 self-locking hydraulic cylinders, including locking force, preload, injection pressure and stripping force...
How to Choose the Right Locking Hydraulic Cylinder for an Injection Mold
Choosing a locking hydraulic cylinder requires more than a simple force calculation. This real engineering case explains how Vega verified...
Why Does a Hydraulic Cylinder Pull the Slide Only Sometimes?
A hydraulic cylinder that occasionally fails to retract a mold slide is not always undersized or defective. This real engineering...
MoldMaking Technology publish our first technical article!
We are proud to announce the first technical article published by MoldMaking Technology, a prominent Online Magazine in USA. The...