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: LM guide load calculation for vertical conveying (2 rails, 2 blocks)

2026/1/2 LM Guide/Linear Guide /Linear Shaft

Today's note is about "LM Guide Load Calculation for Vertical Conveying (2 rails, 2 blocks)". I have previously shared the calculation sheet for horizontal use, and today I will share the load calculation sheet for vertical use of the LM Guide. The LM Guide ...

: Bending R design method and instructions for sheet metal, supplemental

2025/10/19 Drawing/Writing, Design Information

Today's note is on "How to design sheet metal bending R and how to instruct and supplement it". Sheet metal parts are used in machinery and everywhere else.　Today, I'd like to explain how to design a bending radius for sheet metal and the information surrounding ...

: How to distinguish between metered in and metered out on the outside of the spicon.

2025/8/3 Air Cylinder/Spicon

Here is a note on "how to tell the meter in from the meter out of a spicon by its appearance". It's a problem when you have a mix of speakons in the field.　Which one is ...

: Setting range of bolt tightening torque

2025/11/16 Input design

Here is a note on "bolt tightening torque setting range". Generally, when bolt tightening torques are listed in drawings or procedures, the range is set by multiple tightening torques ...

: [Review] 2019 RAPiD Design at Solidworks.

2024/6/17 Solidworks, Misumi

Today I would like to leave a review of the actual use of RAPiD Design (inCAD Components) provided by MISUMI at SolidWorks. ...

: Relational formulas that can produce the modulus of longitudinal elasticity, modulus of shear elasticity, and modulus of volumetric elasticity

2025/11/12 Basic calculations

Today's note is about "the relationship that can produce the modulus of longitudinal elasticity, modulus of shear elasticity, and modulus of volumetric elasticity. When designing a machine, it is sometimes necessary to perform a simple strength analysis of the structure, but using materials that are not common ...

: The quality of the machine, good or bad, is determined by how much the people handling it are involved in its development.

2024/6/11 The story of machine design

Today, I would like to write about what I have been thinking recently. Machinery The difficulty of making an original machine I know this is sudden, but I think that a good machine cannot be made unless everyone is serious about it. This ...

: Requirements for companies to look out for if you want to improve your technical skills in mechanical design.

2024/5/8 Mechanical Design / Career Change

Today's note is about the conditions of companies that people who want to improve their technical skills in mechanical design should change their jobs. Introduction As a background to writing this article, I have received messages and talked with many people through this blog, and many of them ...

: Material properties, applications and mechanical properties of SKD11 (alloy tool work)

2025/9/25 Material Dimensions/Material Properties

Today's note is on "Material Properties, Applications, and Mechanical Properties of SKD11 (Alloy Tool Worker)". So, today, I will try to find out as much information as I can about SKD11.

: Type of hardening

2026/1/31 Heat treatment

Here are some notes on the "quenching types" that are available when quenching is performed. Hardening Types Zub quenching Uniform hardening of the surface and the interior. (Vacuum, Salt, etc.) Whole hardening and ...

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