Many engineers and maintenance personnel mistakenly believe plastic components either require special plastic lubricants or no lubricants at all. In fact, these parts need to be lubricated to reduce ...

As usual, we’ll start by listing the links to earlier installments to make all our lives easier (see Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, and Part 11). Also ...

At first, years ago, it was just an occasional piece of plastic trash that Kahi Pacarro, the founder of Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii, picked up on the beach cleanups he organized around the state. A ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The public isn’t too thrilled about that. About a third of Americans polled by PBS, ...

The Trump administration’s move to expand steel and aluminum tariffs to include plastic molds and parts for plastics machinery is poised to ripple through U.S. manufacturing, potentially raising ...

Have you noticed that a growing number of modern car parts are made up of plastic? Your grandpa is not lying when he says that they don't make 'em like they used to. The plastic content in cars ...

Each year, over 496 million tons of plastic enter our world, from consumer-facing packaging and products to industrial machinery and commercial parts. But when that plastic — much of which is only ...

BEIJING, July 17 (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a company making plastic parts in the eastern Chinese city of Danyang on Thursday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. A picture posted by CCTV showed ...

Safety, performance, aesthetics, noise, comfort, reliability, and durability are the goals that keep automotive engineers up at night, and the miracle solution has, so far, been "more plastic." ...

April Wilkerson shares a SketchUp tutorial for beginners (Part 1), helping you get started with this powerful 3D design tool. Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next ...

We will refer to these article collections as “Breadboards,” “Tools,” and “Components” for short. We’re assuming that we are in possession of a full-size breadboard and associated wires (Components, ...

Players are always looking for ways to mod Minecraft and transform the vanilla world by adding a host of functional and visual improvements. The community has created thousands of such customization ...