ASAP Parts 360 Blog

Understanding the difference between an aircraft’s muffler and exhaust can be extremely important for maintaining the proper functioning of the vehicle. While both are intricately connected and play overlapping roles in an aircraft's engine, they each have distinct purposes and characteristics. To better understand these complex components, we will explore the major differences between exhausts and mufflers employed on aircraft.

Industrial bearings are used to reduce friction generated by the rotational movement of parts found in a wide range of machinery. In general, bearings contain rolling elements that move in the same direction as the rotational movement of machine parts, and they are typically available as balls, cylindrical rollers, spherical rollers, tapered rollers, and needle rollers. It is worth noting that the rolling element changes according to the design and purpose of each bearing type.

Latches are mechanical components that permit the temporary combination of moving parts, and they are actuated so they release the coupling and permit these two components to come apart. Moreover, advantages to using latches include their high-speed design, lower power requirements, and small die-size. Often utilized in seat belts, clamps, straps, and objects featuring retractable components, latches are available in many forms. To better understand these versatile components, the following blog will go into greater detail about trigger latches and pertinent information associated with them.

As the aviation industry has progressed through the years, much of the early technology used by pilots has been combined, and replaced with a single digital interface called the electronic flight instrument system (EFIS). This system is used in modern aircraft, and it combines several different sensors, circuitry, and software to effectively replace all mechanical flight instruments and gauges with a single unit. In this article, we will be discussing the different components of the EFIS in detail, so that you may better understand the crucial instruments which make up our modern “glass cockpit.”

O-rings are circular mechanical gaskets designed to sit in a groove and be compressed when assembling two or more parts, creating a seal at the interface. They are commonly employed in static or dynamic applications, like rotating pump shafts or gas sealing applications, respectively. More than that, O-rings are the most common seals used in machine design due to their low price points, easy manufacturing processes, and simple mounting requirements.