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Material Selection Guide
Choosing the Right Material After finding the right retaining ring or wave spring for your application you would think you had made all the hard decisions. Wrong! Now you need to choose the right…
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Bearing Preload Series Expansion
Smarter Solutions for Smaller Applications Smalley is pleased to announce the expansion of our Bearing Preload Series. Smalley continues to push the limits in coiling innovation. The expansion of our…
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Design FAQ - Miniature Wave Springs
Download our new Design FAQ that answers commonly asked questions about designing with small diameter wave springs. Smalley and Machine Design have partnered to develop a comprehensive FAQ to assist…
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Design and Wave Spring Performance in Extreme Temperatures
It's time to answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions through the one and only, Ask the Expert Blog. This week, our experts talk about retaining ring design and wave…
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Spirolox® Retaining Ring Tooling Guide
Smalley now offers “standard” assembly tooling for the installation of Spirolox retaining rings. Each Assembly Tool is designed to facilitate loading a specific ring size ring in a housing or on a…
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Ask the Expert - Nested Wave Spring Design and Spirolox Retaining Ring Interchange
Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about Spirolox…
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Why Does It Pay to Switch to Spirolox?
Spirolox retaining rings are one of our most popular and unique products. As heavily detailed in our eBook, Why It Pays to Switch to Spirolox, this exclusive design offers advantages unavailable…
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Smalley goes…Smaller!
New advances in ring and spring manufacturing From medical devices to electronics, the world around us is getting smaller. “How small can you go?” This is one of the questions a Smalley engineer…
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Ask the Expert - Ring Alterations, Ring Materials, and Ring Varieties
Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked ring and spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about ring alterations, ring materials…
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All Springs are Not Equal®: Smalley Wave Springs
Smalley’s wave springs are unique flat wire compression springs that replace traditional coil springs in load-bearing applications. The thin, crest-to-crest design of Smalley’s wave springs reduces…