Whether you are keenly familiar with hydraulic hose fitting issues or whether this is the first time you have experienced a hydraulic hose fitting problem, you need to act quickly to preserve the integrity of your equipment and minimize interruptions to productivity. In most cases, the best course of action is to schedule a service… Read more »

The Metric Advantage at Custom Hose Tech No one surpasses Custom Hose Tech when it comes to mastering metric hydraulic fittings. Any business which relies on imported machinery from worldwide manufacturers can rely on Custom Hose Tech’s experience in the widely diversified world of metric fittings. Metric hydraulic fittings are a complex category ranging far… Read more »

Businesses using hydraulic systems in their day-to-day operations understand how important it is to reduce downtime from repairing or replacing their hydraulic hoses and fittings. This is especially true when system operators are trying to fix hydraulic systems with unusual metrics or non-standard hoses and fittings. One source businesses can look toward for help is… Read more »

Hydraulic System Fitting Essentials Pipe Threads and High-Pressure Hydraulics For generations leakage around threaded pipe fittings was an accepted fact of life in high-pressure hydraulic systems. It wasn’t until WW2, with the advent of airborne high-pressure hydraulic systems in military aircraft that engineers began to reject fluid leakage around pipe thread connections as acceptable. Before the… Read more »

The hydraulic hose fitting landscape is continually growing and evolving. Market researchers project continued growth of the global hydraulic hose and fitting market to continue through 2022, providing businesses with an increasing number of supplier options to fulfill their hydraulic hose fitting needs: “Technavio analysts forecast the global hydraulic hose and fittings market to grow at a… Read more »

Whether you work the rock quarry, food service, or aerospace industry, you have probably been using Parker Hannifin products for years. For over 100 years, Parker engineering solutions provided technology leaps that have supported war efforts, space exploration, and mining the depths of the earth. Parker has embraced the mission to engineer success for its… Read more »

Hydraulics and Injection Molding “For controlling the enormous pressures created by relatively small energy inputs, hydraulic systems have been unparalleled,” states Deirdra Barr of Ethyl Petroleum Additives Ltd. in her informative article for Machinery Lubrication, titled “Injection Molding Hydraulics – The Pressure is Rising”. While rudimentary hydraulic systems have been evolving since the earliest days of civilization,… Read more »

Enlisting the services of an experienced hydraulic hose fitting technician is one of the best steps you can take to ensure that your vehicles and machinery are kept in safe working order. In addition to providing emergency and preventive maintenance services, hose fitting technicians can provide a host of other services to keep your operations… Read more »

Extending the Forklift Service Life Forklifts, also popularly called lift trucks, are the irreplaceable workhorses in warehouses and manufacturing and processing facilities, lumberyards, and the freight moving industry. For those businesses who lease their forklifts, maintenance is not a concern, they’ll simply be exchanged for fresh, reliable machines when the lease is up. But for… Read more »

Whether you own and drive a vehicle, operate a heavy piece of machinery, or regularly use some other type of large industrial equipment, there is a very high probability that you rely on hydraulic hoses every day to use these things. So when one of your hydraulic hoses ends up with a leak or has… Read more »