Oil Eucalyptus is generally insoluble in water (actually very slightly soluble). I would like to make it water soluble. Can anyone help me in doing so? I saw this type of product few years ago in a local market which is not available now.

The earthquake in Japan has caused global demand for platinum group metals (PGM) to plunge, largely because of decreased demand from the Japanese auto industry. PGMs are used in autocatalysts and catalytic converters, important parts of a car's emissions control system.

Autocatalysts are ceramic

Last week's earthquake in Japan did what the New England Coalition (NEC) could not - delay the relicensing of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Since 1971, the NEC has investigated "the safety, suitability and environmental effects" of the region's nuclear power plants, including the boili

As a steel company Metallurgist and Quality Director, I was the guy who got the call to visit a shop because the material we sent wasn't machining right.

"This stuff won't drill! Help!"

"This stuff is killing my OD form tool. Can you check the steel?"

"This steel you sent is acting crazy. It ma

If you live in California, you're used to seeing the roads dominated by imports. The domestics have slipped a lot there in the last few decades. According to The Detroit News, "Detroit's automakers sold less than 30 percent of all vehicles in California last year, down from 45 percent in 2004.

From Fast Company:

This past week, Fast Company visited Tesla Motors headquarters for a look at the automaker's progress on its first mass-market vehicle, the Model S electric sedan. We had the chance to see the Model S Alpha testing fleet, see some of the vehicle's innards, and speak wi

From Geeks are Sexy:

Fresh off the Apollo 11 Moon landing and aching to get some of those sweet avocado-colored refrigerators into space, NASA held a couple summer camps focused on designing space colonies. Artist's renderings of some of the designs are truly spectacular-predating digita

From Gizmag:

Tired of your glasses fogging up on cold days, or of having to spit in your dive mask before putting it on? Those hassles may become a thing of the past, as researchers from Quebec City's Université Laval have developed what they claim is the world's first permanent anti-fog

From Gizmag:

Clarkson University (New York) was the overall winner in the 2011 Clean Snowmobile Challenge, a collegiate design competition put on by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and hosted by Michigan Technological University. This year's competition was billed as "the green

From DVICE:

Piston engines are big, heavy, dirty, complicated, and expensive pieces of machinery that have been around for a century. It's about time for something better, and one option could be wave disk engines, which are small, light, clean, simple, and cheap pieces of machinery that

Does anyone know of equipment available to cut out a hole in an ASME pressure vessel shell and/or head that has 321 SS cladding, and 625 Ni. Cladding?

The larger of the vessels has a base metal of 3-1/4 thick SA516-70, with internal cladding of 3/16" 625 nickel. It would be nice if this machine cou

Can anyone help me with connecting to a Slick 504 Plc with Link-sys?

I have the program and the software, and the cable from the PC to the PLC.

Just can not get the Rs500 to connect thru Link-sys.

The cable connects directly to the com port of the PC and plugs into the CPU.

Know it is the correc

Here's one to ponder on.

A few years back we had a fault on a 33/11KV 20MVA transformer. Buchholz surge, it was due to low oil level. It was the middle of a freezing night so it was decided to leave it until daylight and just close the bus-section to get the plant up and running. Walking out of the

At first glance this may sound like a dumb question. However I have not found an answer by searching CR4 archives.

The situation is this. Application is off grid with power provided in a battery power pac. The Power pac has a small inverter of 300 watts and a DC cigarrete socket. The question is wh

Can any one suggest best practice for vibration analysis for slow speed machines i.e. less than 50 RPM.

Also i would be thankful if i find some websites giving proper knowledge for vibration analysis for slow speed machines..

I have been using Auto CAD LT. For years I have been having to re-trace my boundary lines. There is no rendering in this old version.

When I fill in with a solid hatch I lose my lines and the colors make the drawing look bad.

Any simple suggestions as to how to keep the boundary lines so the hatch

How to stay safe and healthy as radiation from Japan reaches USA 1-Stop smoking. 2-Wear your seat belt. 3-Don't talk on phone or text while driving. 4-Look both ways before crossing the street. 5-Eat less. 6-Exercise more......... The point is every day people expose themselves to mo

What is the use of NULL meter on AVR panel?

Did you know that a CR4 blogger is featured in the current Sears Tool catalog? Chris Duke (motorztv) is the host and executive producer of a do-it-yourself (DIY) web TV show, iTunes podcast, and TV program called Motorz. By showing automotive enthusiasts how to install products on their vehicles

can some kind person ( or an unkind but helpful one ) , please advise me on choosing the correct tolerance for a shaft and bearing housing

i have a 300 RPM shaft running on 22212E ( spherical ) and 3212 ( double row angular contact ) bearings.

what machining tolerance do i use ( H7 / N7 / M5 etc e