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Smalley Launches New Catalog - An Engineer’s Go-To Guide for Rings and Springs
Smalley Launches New Catalog - An Engineer’s Go-To Guide for Rings and Springs Print or Interactive Digital Download Available Lake Zurich, IL, February 18, 2021 – Find your next wave spring,…
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Smalley Wins GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award for 8th Consecutive Year
Lake Zurich, IL, January 21, 2021 - Smalley was presented the General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for the year 2019, marking the 8th consecutive year to receive this prestigious honor…
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#1 Reason for Retaining Ring Failure and How to Overcome It
Drills, saws, sanders, and grinders - what do all of these power tools have in common? Retaining rings keep them from falling apart. A retaining ring’s function is to hold components or assemblies in…
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Special Rings: Self-Locking, Balanced, and ID/OD Lock
Smalley Spirolox Retaining Rings are the trusted industry solution because of their unique configuration, reliability, and convenience across thousands of applications. While we have five standard…
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How We Package our Wave Springs and Retaining Rings
I’ve found the perfect retaining ring or wave spring, but how do I get it here? You’ve found the perfect ring or spring for your application. Now you’re wondering, “how do I get it here?”. The…
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Ask the Expert - NACE Compliance
Welcome back to Ask the Expert! This time, Smalley’s Expert Engineers answer questions about NACE compliance. What is NACE? NACE, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, is a not-for-profit…
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Smalley Spirolox® Retaining Ring vs. Stamped Circlip/Snap Ring
While there are a variety of retaining rings available in the industry, engineers specify Spirolox retaining rings, because of their unique configuration, reliability, and convenience. This blog…
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Helping the Fight versus COVID-19/Coronavirus
As a leading supplier to the medical industry, Smalley provides products and engineering expertise to support our customers worldwide, including the needs of the essential businesses that we supply…
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Smalley Wins GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award for 7th Consecutive Year
4,000+ GM suppliers worldwide 432 Recipients of the Supplier Quality Excellence Award 13 Specific quality requirements showing above standard performance 0 Defects in parts and components 1 Smalley…
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Interchange and Stock Material
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 interchangeable…