Beadlock Loose Tenon Joinery Success

To make professional-quality mortise and tenon joints, you need a woodshop full of expensive tools, decades of experience and loads of time on your hands, right? Nope

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Top 7 SEO tips to generate more engineering leads

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1) Backlinks: Links to your site from other sites that are relevant to your business are the most important aspect of SEO. If there are only a few sites on the entire internet that link to your site, then search engines will likely ignore your site, or only index a few pages, meaning that most of your content will never show up in a search result that your potential customers are making. The number on thing you can do to increase traffic to your site is to get your customers, partners, distributors, and principals to link to your website

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Top 10 features to get more leads from your industrial website

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1) Contact info: Make your contact information readily available on every page of your site, and make sure it is easy to find.

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Bond and EMI Shield with same part, FASTELek, an engineering case study from Fastel Adhesives

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Editors note: This is a Case Study from our partner supplier  Fastel Adhesives , and here is their  Industrial Interface Supplier Profile .  Learn more about Fastel’s FASTELEK Materials .

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Hand Saw Series – Miter Saws

Over the years I have mitered thousands of small moldings around boxes, newel posts and cabinet doors. Having used every power saw available for this task, for these small moldings nothing is as fast and easy as an old fashioned miter saw. Tw..

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Printing on heat sealable foils – Engineering case study from Entrocomponent Solutions

Editors note: This is a Case Study from our partner supplier  Entrocomponent Solutions , and here is their sales team:  Jeff Bradbury and  Scott McGlasson . 1.  How to print a logo and product name on a sealing foil Many medical device companies use heat sealed foils to contain caustic substances or to maintain a seal of freshness.

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Engineer creates own heart valve to save his life

In 2000, Tal Golesworthy, a British engineer, was told that he suffers from Marfan syndrome, a disorder of the connective tissue that often causes rupturing of the aorta. The only solution then available was the pairing of a mechanical valve and a highly risky blood thinner. To an engineer like Golesworthy, that just wasn’t good enough.

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Tools explained (funny)

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DRILL PRESS : A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL : Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light .

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New directories for engineers and suppliers

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We’ve listened to our users and done something awesome. We know how annoying it is to fill in lengthy profiles for your company, so you no longer have to do that.  We’ve built an industrial directory engine that visits supplier sites (like your site), crawls them, finds relevant products, services, certifications, industries, and more, and automatically creates supplier profiles.

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Hand Saw Series – Flush Trim Saws

Even if you do not generally keep and use handsaws in your shop, a quality flush trim saw should be found in your toolbox. There are many occasions when a wood pin, plug or dowel will need to be trimmed, and these saws can cut them clean and close be…

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