99 Series Heavy Duty Casters Provide Real Performance Moving Aerospace Simulator
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
An aerospace company needed casters to put on a ground support assembly used to transport an aerospace simulator. Moving the aerospace simulator is a complex and challenging task, as it was a large, heavy, and delicate piece of equipment. Not to mention this precious cargo took more than a year to complete. To transport this
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Empowered: Electric Vehicle Manufacturer Increases Rack Loads Without Increasing Costs.
Monday, 13 March 2023
With the large-scale shift from internal combustion engines (ICEs) to electric powertrains, the production of electric vehicles has taken off — along with the need for EV batteries which can weigh up to 350 pounds each. For a major electric vehicle manufacturer, this created many challenges. In the race to get production levels at their
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UltraGlide wheels delivers more push, cush, and staying power
Wednesday, 08 March 2023
The new UltraGlide™’s ball bearings have been upgraded in both size and quality to provide more than double the bearing life. Hamilton engineers also designed the die cast aluminum center with a new concave face that concentrates the compression of the urethane toward the centerline of the tread. It’s a key innovation that simulates the
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It’s a triple threat of Hamilton casters
Monday, 06 March 2023
This beast of a triple caster we designed for an engineering design firm. Each 21-inch wheel is impressive in its own right. But when banded thrice together to support four corners of an 80,000-pound movable assembly, it’s a threesome worthy of Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra combined. The assembled structure itself (see illustration to the right)
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