Machine Design

Graphite/Metal Alloy Bearings to the Rescue

Graphite/metal alloy bearings handle harsh environments that lubricated bearings can’t. For example, a grease-filled ball bearing was used on an oven-door latch—but in tests, the bearing seized and ...
Power Engineering

Graphite-Metal Bearings Tackle High-Temperature Job

The inlet-air section of a utility boiler is a harsh environment for the dampers that control the flow of preheated air into the combustors. Over time, the hot air dries out the lubricant in the metal ...
Machine Design

Bearings take the heat

Graphite-metal bearings can handle harsh environments that toast liquid-lubricated types. Agrease-filled ball bearing on an oven-door latch seizes and keeps the door from latching. It turns out the ...
Yahoo Finance

Focus Announces New Graphite Discovery at Lac Tetepisca Quebec-900 m Long Graphite Bearing Corridor Hosting 17 Grab Samples Assays of 5.59% to 45.80 % Graphitic Carbon

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov 15, 2012) - Focus Graphite Inc. ("Focus" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:FMS)(FCSMF)(FKC.F) is pleased to announce the discovery of a new graphite bearing corridor on ...
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Discovery of a Wide, Rich Graphite-Bearing Zone with an Intercept of 4.72% Graphite Over 128.35 Metres, Including 8.42 % Graphite Over 26.40 Metres at the La Loutre Graphite ...

The goal of the exploration program was to identify high-grade, near-surface graphite mineralization to rapidly build a resource at La Loutre project. A total of twenty-five holes, for a total of ...