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DieQua Builds Over 300 Bikes For Children

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00December 19th, 2017|DieQua News|

This Holiday season, DieQua decided rather than send out Holiday Cards, to instead participate in bike building for Toys for Tots. We had such a wonderful time and together with our friends from WAV Wireless, we touched the lives of over 300 children. Helping a person will not change the world, but it will change the world for that person. From all of us at DieQua, we wish you a joyous season! We will be closed December 22 and December 25 in honor of Christmas. We will also be closed on December 29 [...]

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Quick Connection Improves Efficiency

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00December 14th, 2017|Application Examples|

Short-run printing and automated machining require quick tool changes to achieve customized production in an efficient manner. Two different applications use the same design concept to solve this problem. In the first application, a manufacturer of printing presses was looking for a quick-connect system to speed up cylinder changes. With short-run printing becoming the norm, print cylinder changeover was eating up a lot of production time. In the past, a transfer gear was installed on the cylinder shaft journal. However, because of a gear error, some motion variations were created. The new quick-connect system design [...]

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DieQua Technical Institute – December 2017

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00December 12th, 2017|Application Examples, DieQua News, Educational|

To further enlighten and educate our distributors on the vast array of potential solutions, DieQua established the DieQua Technical Institute, or DTI. DTI is a two-day training class covering the analytical process of identifying the characteristics of a power transmission or motion control application and selecting the proper gear product to satisfy the requirements. It is held 2-3 times per year, primarily for our distribution partners, but also for our OEM customer design engineers. The DTI starts with a brief introduction followed by a tour of the facility, showing off how motion control and power [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving from DieQua

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00November 21st, 2017|DieQua News|

Happy Thanksgiving! Our company will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, as we give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives. Among those blessings are our customers, and we thank you for doing business with us! We will be closed Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th in honor of the holiday. We will be back in the office and ready for business on Monday the 27th. Happy Thanksgiving! We hope to work with you again soon. Your friends at DieQua Corporation.

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The Link Between Design and Speed Control

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00November 13th, 2017|Application Examples|

The tried and true method of synchronizing the speed of multiple stations by linking them mechanically through a gearbox system remains a popular option in machine design. This is still seen in printing presses, conveyors, roll forming and packaging lines, just to name a few examples. A customer of ours recently requested some assistance in designing a conveyor and feed system for a large pipe cutting operation. The long, heavy pipe was to be loaded on a set of rollers that would then move the pipe into a cutting house where it would be sawed into [...]

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Gearbox Oil Seal Leak Investigation: Symptoms, Causes, & More

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00November 6th, 2017|Application Examples|

Why Do Gearbox Seal Leaks Happen? Gearbox seal leaks are the bane of gearbox users. Since lubrication is the lifeblood of enclosed drives, maintaining oil levels is critical to long life. When oil starts leaking, corrective action is necessary, but what action? What’s going wrong? Actually, the answers can be varied as the gear type used, how it’s mounted, the speed it’s running, and the environment it’s in. Investigating a Gearbox Leak: A Real-World Example We had a user of a competitive worm gear speed reducer give us a call. He had his gearbox mounted [...]

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Machine Screwed Up (And Down)!

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00November 1st, 2017|Application Examples|

Screw jacks are just one member of the linear motion family, more suitable for relatively low-duty cycles. A customer had a problem we had to troubleshoot that highlighted what not to do. There are two common types of screw jacks. The first type of screw jack is the ball screw jack. They have recirculating balls in the threads that reduce friction, allowing for higher-duty cycles than the other type. The second type is the machine, or acme thread, screw jack that has a sliding action similar to a nut and bolt. This limits the [...]

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Mechanical Drive Design For Satellite Dish Positioning

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00October 24th, 2017|Application Examples|

The need for communication and data transfer are growing at a staggering rate. More satellites and more dishes are being put into service on a daily basis to satisfy and utilize the technological advances. While we have written about satellite dish applications before, there has been a recent explosion of inquiries from various companies producing these products in different sizes. The inquiries include large land-based satellite dish positioning drive designs and mobile applications used by the media, government agencies, and the military. In the most recent applications, the requests have been for system solutions [...]

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AHTD Fall 2017 Meeting

By |2025-11-12T20:42:06+00:00October 19th, 2017|DieQua News|

The Association of High Technology Distribution held the 2017 Fall convention, in Asheville, NC, held from October 3rd to October 6th, 2017. The AHTD was established to increase the productivity, profitability and market share of their Automation Solution Providers and the manufacturers that supply them products and services. DieQua’s President Meikel Quaas and Motion Products Manager Tom Kahn were in attendance as manufacturer members. The AHTD is an important and influential organization as its distributor members are some of the most competent and professional motion products and system suppliers across the entire continent. Attending [...]

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From Heaven To Earth

By |2025-11-12T20:41:24+00:00October 15th, 2017|Application Examples|

Most people think of cables, wires or electronic boxes when they think of communications equipment, but there is also the mechanical element involved when it comes to transmitting data between the ground and the sky. One of our customers sought us out with a number of mechanical requirements for a large, radar dish that was being designed. There wasn’t anything out of the ordinary about this radar engineering design, but it offered an opportunity to provide several of the wide variety of drive components we offer and work with the customer to help select [...]

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