Why is “country of smelting” suddenly so important? Smelting produces the raw material billet for steel or aluminium for further processing. Steel is shown. A rolling mill or extrusion press will produce the material that your material supplier buys. A steel rolling mill is shown. Why you need [...]
Why was the Tangye Hydrapak such a great concept hydraulic hand pump and why have today’s Hydrapak, HMP, MHX and PSP hand pumps all evolved that original design so well? An old Hydrapak product brochure. The Tangye Hydrapak was the original pump back in the 1960’s. It was a trailblazer. That classic unit [...]
Our Micropac MW pumps are often piped into systems rather than supplied on a reservoir with suction tube already in place. What suction tube is right, which is wrong, and how long can a suction tube be? This is a basic question, but not commonly asked. Maybe hydraulic engineers get on with it from [...]
Can I achieve a neat and cost effective hydraulic that runs on and on? Real world hacks that hydraulic designers use every time to make their projects a win. A very neat hydraulic installation in a JCB131X excavator. Don’t we all want our hydraulic system to be neat, come in at a [...]
Why use a pneumatic air driven pump on your hydraulics? Why do we sell air driven pumps? They are simply a great choice in the right application. We have manufactured our Micropac hand pumps for over 40 years and sell a lot of air driven pumps where they offer features that our manual pumps [...]
There are lots of hazardous areas in daily life and the larger world. We are focussed on one particular type that has been with us for a very long time. We all live amongst hazardous areas where there may be a risk of an explosive atmosphere. It is more common than you might [...]
A pump check valve has complexity and needs to be right. How to design inlet and outlet check valves for your pump. Are the check valves for a pump the same as catalogue hydraulic check valves? We would say no. Lots of features are the same but there are some big differences. Are the [...]
What you need to know to configure your 2 speed PSP, HMP, MHX or Hydrapak pressure test pump. Our Micropac PSP 2 speed hydrostatic pressure test set Why has this pump format been so popular for decades? This style of pump is a great workhorse for pressure testing for the shop, site or [...]
Why is my hydraulic hand pump such hard work? Make using a hydraulic hand pump as easy as possible. A hydraulic hand pump is the ultra-dependable pump with no battery or electronics Hand pumps are a great piece of kit. There are no batteries or electronics. They are dependable in an emergency [...]
Pressure Test and Hydrotest Hand Pumps. Essential tools for safety and integrity in critical pressure systems. So much large scale infrastructure for industrial processes relies upon vessels, pipework and key pressure components. If there is a failure under pressure, the operator has to face the consequences of safety for staff and the wider population, security, [...]
