How Big Hydraulics keeps London running smoothly. What caught our eye from The Shard? The Shard, next door to London Bridge Station, is the UK’s tallest building at 306m and one of the iconic landmarks of London. Opened in February 2013 after four years of construction, its 95 floors house hotels, apartments, restaurants and offices [...]
Hydraulic compression fittings explained. Read our take after 30 years of using single and double ferrule fittings. Before you start. Rigid pipe or hoses? If you want a permanent installation and a neat job, piping it up with tube and compression fittings will give you a “better job.” Debatable? Yes, hoses have a big place [...]
Clever water hydraulics crafts the perfect Espresso. Can a hydraulic process really capture the craft of the barista maestro and produce the perfect espresso? The world loves espresso. The world loves espresso coffee. There are 21,000 coffee shops in the UK alone, so the Allegra Coffee Portal tells us. This article tries to [...]
How soon will car hydraulics be heading to Beaulieu Motor Museum? Why do designers love electric? Electrics has big attractions for designers. Electric actuation has made big inroads towards replacing hydraulics in systems everywhere. We have discussed before about the enormous growth in pure electric actuation on aircraft. Out go those hoses, pumps, control valves [...]
Tech helps in fighting the hydraulic contamination battle. If anybody tells Sarum Hydraulics that there is a “contamination issue”, we insist on digging deeper. Maybe that was an acceptable blanket excuse in 1986, but not today. We just need to know what it is. We had an “old school” optical microscope for years, a cheap [...]
Setting the pace – and pulse in hybrid marine power technology: leading the fleet is the USS Zumwalt Class destroyer. But Sarum Hydraulics asks how realistic is hybrid marine power technology on smaller vessels? Hybrid marine power on boats – the buzzword in 2016 is hybrid. There’s good reason that the one word that keeps popping up [...]
Why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first? We wrote a thoughtful blog on low pressure hydraulics last year and asked the question "why wouldn’t you look at low pressure hydraulics first?”. The article generated a lot of interest and we have had endless discussion over it. Designers love a chat! Our premise was [...]
How innovative hydraulics, advanced optoelectronics and clever control could just be the dream ticket for a hydroponic future. Farming underground, in your attic and in a factory unit using high tech lighting and hydroponics is a great tech story for the press. But is it the start of what will become a massive [...]
Where a neat aerospace electro-hydraulic actuator might point the way on future mobile hydraulics. Sarum Hydraulics loves innovative hydraulic design. There is always something interesting that a clever hydraulic designer comes up with whether it is aerospace, offshore, marine, mobile or the myriad other fluid power applications. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) [...]
The payback game: so just which hydraulic manufacturers will profit from the robot challenge? The FT recently reported that China bought 66,000 out of 240,000 robot units sold globally last year. The UK bought only an estimated 2400 units in 2015, according to statistics from the International Federation of Robotics. It makes riveting [...]
