Four decades of experience have told us what is important to customers. For Professionals specifying hydraulic equipment, hand pumps are important. It must be reliable in an emergency, capable of handling specific fluids, and resistant to your operating environment. Let’s run through the design philosophy on a Micropac pump. Why do we recommend the [...]
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 [...]
How to select, configure and integrate hand pumps for designers and specifiers. With a massive range of pressures, flows and formats for all sorts of operating conditions, where do you start? Work up a specification. Start with pressures and fluids. Try to find the fluid generic type, not a single trade name. Describe the [...]
Pick the right application and a miniature hydraulic system will be perfect for you or your customer. It can provide a dedicated hydraulic system for your specific task rather than sharing a complicated system, have a very small space envelope and can be incredibly cost effective. After 40 years, we have seen how our customers [...]
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 [...]
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 craze for kyosho jutaku, that distinctly Japanese variant of the micro home, may have started in the thirteenth century, but there’s good reason why jutaku has more recently exploded in popularity outside Japan. These micro houses are often built on unused, “leftover” land —urban infill, in the truest sense of the term. We’re talking [...]
Has silicon graphics made the pencil redundant for designers and creative minds? Whether you were Leonardo da Vinci, Enzo Ferrari or even the Mad Men, a pencil and some paper had always been the way to download your creative thoughts from your mind, play about with them and share them with other people. Fabriano started [...]
