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One of the most common failures we come across after hydraulic hose bursting or being damaged is the hydraulic pump which is part of the PTO on mobile hydraulic machinery. What is a PTO? Power Take Of (Unit) is a specially designed gearbox that bolts to a Truck's Gear...

The Original title of this blog was Warning How Not to Lift a 4200 Kg Forklift Vertically 6 m in 8.5 seconds. That's moving 4.2 tons at a velocity of 70 cm per second or 2 feet 3-3/4 inches per second straight up.Just before Christmas 2018, we were called...

Removing Repairing and or replacing a damaged Hydraulic Hose is not generally very difficult. That being said there are quite a few important steps to ensure the final outcome is a success.  With a little bit of planing, preparation and using the comprehensive...

1. Clean the cylinder in wash bay to remove oil, grease and dirt.  Before commencing disassembly have your mobile phone or digital camera ready and take a picture each step as a part or component is removed.  2. Set up cylinder to be clamped in the floor vice, with...

In Hydraulics they say that getting two or more cylinders to move at the same time and at the same speed is one of the hardest things to do. We had a call from a customer who recently purchased a full hydraulic kit including a 12 Volt DC hydraulic power pack with push...

As a hydraulics business specialising in the repair and maintenance of small to medium hydraulic equipment, we get to witness first hand the effects that time, oil and the heat generated from engines and the sun have on the seals of high-pressure cylinders of modern...

A few years ago we were asked by one of our clients  "Do you do High Pressure Flow and Pressure Testing of Hydraulic Systems?"We said "not yet, but we will investigate and get back to you". We called our specialist hydraulics suppliers looking for a Hydraulic flow...

Machines that need an oil cooler are generally those that are required to operate outside the parameters that they were originally designed for.For example,A. An internal combustion engine modified to produce more power. B. A Transmission Required...

Field Fit Hydraulic Hose fittings are a two (2) piece design that screw On To and In To a Hydraulic Hose using only basic hand tools and following a certain sequence, when fully assembled the connection is rated to work safely up to the full pressure rating of the...

Jaspal Purchased a 5-meter coil of 3/4" 2 Wire Hydraulic Hose SAE100R2-12 MSHA EUROPEAN MADE 3118 PSI working pressureand wrote "Good to deal with" Jude purchased a Pressure Washing Unloader Valve with a flow 40 Lpm and a pressure of 4050 PSI with 3/8" EndsSaid wrote...