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Distributor's Link Magazine Winter 2020 / Vol 43 No1

60 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S

60 THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK ROTOR CLIP COMPANY INC. 187 Davidson Avenue, Somerset, NJ 08873 TEL 1-800-557-6867 FAX 732-469-7898 EMAIL info@rotorclip.com WEB www.rotorclip.com CONSTANT SECTION RETAINING RINGS - A SENSIBLE CHOICE FOR LIGHTER- DUTY APPLICATIONS & COST SAVINGS by Jürgen Wenzel, Director of Global Marketing Rotor Clip Constant Section Retaining Rings offer a lower cost alternative, depending on your application, to tapered section rings, providing more clearance but generally accommodating less force. Rotor Clip Constant Section Retaining Rings feature a uniform constant section, meaning that the material used to make the ring is the same width along the circumference of the retaining ring. When contracted or expanded during installation, these rings assume an elliptical shape, rather than remaining circular as tapered rings would do, resulting in contact with the bottom of the groove in three or more points as opposed to continuous contact around the periphery. Once installed in the groove of a shaft, the portion of the ring protruding from the groove holds an assembly in place. Depending on your requirements, there are a number of additional advantages offered by Constant Section Retaining Rings. ¤ No assembly/disassembly lugs resulting in space savings in radial direction. ¤ Edges with radius; no stamping burrs. ¤ Square edge wire for sharp-edged installations. ¤ No special tooling required. ¤ Higher ring shear. ¤ Special ends are available for specific application requirements. ¤ Heavy duty sections for higher rotational capacities. ¤ Constant Section Rings are an economical alternative to Tapered Section Rings, depending on the application. Delivering quality products should always be a manufacturer’s top priority. When it comes to constant section retaining rings, or any of the other products that Rotor Clip manufactures, the importance of the wealth of knowledge, manufacturing experience and expertise gained during the over sixty years that Rotor Clip has been in business simply cannot be overstated. Rotor Clip’s Engineering Staff has extensive experience working closely with, advising and supporting a diverse range of industries that rely on our products in safety critical applications. These industries include automotive, energy, aerospace and defense among many others. High quality raw materials used to manufacture Rotor Clip Constant Section Retaining Rings to very tight tolerance requirements include: ¤ Carbon Spring Steel – This steel is known for its high strength and reliability in retaining ring applications. ¤ Stainless Steel – AISI 302 is an extra strength corrosion-resistant steel, capable of preventing atmospheric oxidation at temperatures up to 900ºF. ¤ Beryllium Copper Alloy #25 – Applications that require conductivity are best served by this material. It is also characterized by excellent corrosion resistance and is particularly effective in sea air and seawater atmospheres. Rotor Clip’s in-house raw material production facility has the capacity to yield more than 4,500 tons of wire per year. Our experience and expertise with hard rolled wire offers many advantages, including: ¤ Availability of raw material. ¤ Tight controls on wire quality and tolerances. ¤ Lower production costs which are passed on to our customers. TECHNICAL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON PAGE 140

Sherex Fastening Solutions LLC, has named G.L. Huyett a master distributor in a strategic move designed to enrich the supply chain of the OEM fastener distribution market. Adam Pratt, 2017 Young Fastener Professional of the Year and Sherex President and CEO, said, “We see G.L. Huyett as a leading supply chain innovator in the industry with a unique combination of value-added technical tools, superior customer service, and one of the most highly-trained field sales teams in the business. Our expectation is that G.L. Huyett will support the market with safety stock, brokenbox small order fulfillment, and technical support, all at a competitive price.” Tim O’Keeffe, CEO of G.L. Huyett, noted, “Adam Pratt is a thoughtful and resourceful entrepreneur and we are like-minded in our commitment to distribution support in the industry. This will be a great partnership with a market leader in rivet nuts with a nearly worldwide operation. We have shared significant resources so that our sales and engineering teams can not only support the market with safety stock and small quantity fulfillment, but also in design-in and business development actions with our OEM fastener distributor customers. We will be a great team out there.” Dan Harriger, G.L. Huyett’s Vice President of Sales, added “By partnering with Sherex, our customers will receive better service and technical support from our in-field distributor support team. They’ll also have shorter lead times than what they are traditionally accustomed to when ordering directly from Sherex.” G.L. Huyett provides fastener distributors with a broad spectrum of more than 140,000 SKUs in over 1,150 product lines. Established in 1906 by Guy Huyett in the “other Minneapolis,” the company is one of the oldest continuously operating businesses in Kansas. The firm is a leading innovator of products and services geared to support industrial distributors in the non-threaded fastener and power transmission sectors, delivered by competent customer-centric people operating in a Culture of Excellence. For more information contact G.L. Huyett by Tel: 785-392-3017, Fax: 785-392-2845, Email: sales@ huyett.com or visit them online at www.huyett.com. THE DISTRIBUTOR’S LINK 61

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