Eclipse Engineering Blog

2020/05/28 | Cliff | Seals

You might be surprised at the places you’ll find seals like the ones we design and manufacture at Eclipse Engineering. Our seals are used in planes, trains, and yes, you guessed it — automobiles.

2020/04/23 | Cliff | Industries

The coronavirus has prompted all of us to do everything we can to protect ourselves from catching and spreading the virus. We are all taking important safety measures to maintain a clean and uncontaminated home environment, and limiting our exposure to a potentially hazardous outdoor environment. At Eclipse, we’ve been interested in examining the role […]

2020/04/01 | Cliff | Seals

Boundary seals that help keep a certain environment sealed in while keeping the world out are everywhere. If you look around your home, you may be surprised to see there are seals surrounding every door — and not just at the bottom. Your oven, microwave, and of course refrigerator door all have seals around them. […]

2019/10/15 | Cliff | Industries

Before mechanization on the farm, different tools and implements had fairly simple designs. Seals were only found in the sucker pump tied to the Aermotor windmill, where there was a leather seal in the transmission and the pump had leather packing. The History of Farming Technology & Seals The farm tractor evolved to include rubber […]

2019/06/17 | Cliff | Seals

When it comes to designing and developing seals, the aerospace and industrial industries need a basis to allow production anywhere in the world. One of the first PTFE (Teflon) standards, AMS3678, describes Teflon and the addition of fillers. This was used in conjunction with Mil-R-8791, which is one of the Mil specs describing a backup […]

2019/05/21 | Cliff | Seals

Machining plastics is as much a skill as it is an art form. It takes understanding that whenever you cut a part, it will probably have some motion or energy still within the material. This is largely because our parts have more rebound than steel in the cutting process. And while plastics are mostly thermally […]

2019/05/16 | Cliff | Seals

We frequently get requests from customers asking for FDA-certified materials. The FDA doesn’t approve materials, but they do approve a device which contains materials that we make seals from. These materials find themselves on a compliant list from which we manufacture seals. The FDA doesn’t approve a material for an FDA application unless it’s specifically […]

2019/04/24 | Cliff | Seals

Sealing materials are selected for many different reasons. The application dictates the style of sealing. But fluids, pressures, and cycle times all play a prominent role in seal and material selection. When we add in temperature, this factor often directs us to the types of materials that can survive the application. Read on to learn […]

2018/12/20 | Cliff | Seals

Torlon® polyamide-imide is one of the highest performance thermoplastics that is still melt processible. 

2018/12/10 | Cliff | Seals

“Green energy” or renewable energy is collected from renewable resources and replenished by the simple existence of the planet. Some examples are energy from the sun, wind, tidal wave and geothermal heat. The process of energy from renewable resources is the conversion of these different forms of energy into electricity. In the case of geothermal […]