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27 July, 2025

Perfect O-Ring Grooves Every Time!


20 July, 2025

A Breeze of Fresh Air... With Hydraulic Troubleshooting


13 July, 2025

Project Super Pressure Gauge - Connecting to a Proper Pressure Transducer


06 July, 2025

Hydraulic Balance of Piston Slippers


29 June, 2025

Eight Embarrassing Mistakes You Will Make as a Hydraulic Technician


22 June, 2025

These Numbers May Be Useless, But You Should Know What They Mean Anyway


15 June, 2025

Battle With a Viking


8 June, 2025

Super Pressure Gauge Project - Trying Out ADC Boards


1 June, 2025

"Mystery Cartridges" are Lessons in Disguise


25 May, 2025

A presentation of a spectacular motor failure, an explanation of an interesting phenomenon, and a request to the audience, in Segment Valve Tipping in Bent-Axis Variable Displacement Motors.


18 May, 2025

Danfoss H1 Bent Axis Motor Hydraulic Proportional Displacement Control Actuator is Different.


11 May, 2025

Super Pressure Gauge - ADC PCB Layout


4 May, 2025

I have two Rexroth A6VE topics for you today - a DIY Acessory for Reading Pressure in the Flange-Face-Located Brake Release Port of a Plug-in Motor, and a List of Seals for Rexroth A6VE55HZ3/63 Hydraulic Motor.


27 April, 2025

Super Pressure Gauge - Choosing the ADC and Designing the Circuit


20 April, 2025

Elegant Directional Solution from Enerpac


13 April, 2025

Welcome to the Project Super Pressure Gauge


6 April, 2025

Today's blog post relies on external links (my apologies for that) but is is very educational - and if you slowly go through the graphs that I am discussing there, you will never be intimidated by a dynamic LS system ever again - Dynamic LS - Follow Up. Also, I've added another seal kit to the seals database - List of Seals for Rexroth A10VO71..3X Hydraulic Pump.


30 March, 2025

One Orifice, Two Orifices, Three Orifices... or - Is It Hard to Be Dynamic?


23 March, 2025

A Handy Accessory For Obvious (and Not Obvious) Purposes.


9 March, 2025

A Simple DIY Tool for Disassembling Cartridge Valves of Threaded Design


2 March, 2025

Rings, Pins and Springs


23 February, 2025

Webtec DHM403-B-6 - Wet Parts and Electronics


16 February, 2025

Lots of pictures and 3d renders in today's back-engineering session devoted to the Variable Orifice Loading Valve From Webtec


09 February, 2025

DIY Bluetooth Pressure Gauge Hardware Details


02 February, 2025

Another seal list is added to the seal kit database database today - and this one also presents a good example of why one would want to go through the hassle of ordering the o-rings by size instead of getting a proper seal kit - List of Seals for Rexroth A6VM55xx/63 Hydraulic Motor. And here's what happens when you mount a shaft coupling on a Rexroth A6VM motor with a hammer.