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a gasket consisting of a flat ring of rubber or plastic

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Summary: Customers have been notified about the recall and the O-rings will be replaced free of cost.
Omura defines BDORT as "mostly an electromagnetic resonance test." Omura discovered that when a patient held a minute sample of a pathogen or a slide of a cancer cell in one hand, the O-ring formed by the patient's other hand would suddenly weaken when tested if the sample matched a pathogen or cancer in the patient's body.
O-ring lead-ins (chamfers) should be 15[degrees] and as wide as the o-ring cross-section.
Tolerance stack-up is an important factor to consider because the tolerances account for a large percentage of the nominal O-ring size.
Building owners and other consumers now have more options in how they replace the 37 million O-ring fire sprinklers that were recalled two years ago by Central Sprinkler Corp.
Model 170 cartridge check valves offer an increased flow capacity of 8 gpm and incorporates a low-inertia poppet design with double tapered o-ring seats to achieve fast, positive seal.
Her detailed ethnography of the decision-making process compellingly demonstrates that the key decision makers in this tragic story were indeed following the rules at NASA: the decision-making rules had been designed to create a rational risk assessment procedure, engineers and managers analyzed, discussed, and reported on possible O-ring weakness before the launch and then followed official procedures throughout the final teleconference on the night before the catastrophe.
The technical culprit, as expected, turned out to be the O-ring seal between the rearmost segments of the shuttle's right-hand solid-rocket booster (SRB).
Lewiston, ID, July 24, 2015 --(PR.com)-- During the weekly sales Meeting, The O-Ring Store LLC announced immediate availability of FDA O-Rings, enabling customers to purchase Nitrile - Buna-N, EPDM, Silicone and FDA 3A Sanitary Brown Viton[R] online as well as traditional means.
Word around the tool bench is that some of the lightweight water purifiers (LWP) were fielded with the O-ring seals missing from the purifier's reverse osmosis (RO) filter element cartridges.
In this application, the manufacturer of an aircraft fuel pump contacted Parker Hannifin for help with a series of unusual o-ring failures resulting in fuel leakage.
Leaks are generally related to failure of o-ring seals.
The 19000 Series is equipped with either metal-to-metal seating or, when superior seat tightness is required, a flexible O-ring. The O-ring comes in a variety of compounds that are formulated to accommodate the relief valve's application.
Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a voluntary recall to replace O-ring fire sprinklers.