Catalogues, product data, checklists and technical whitepapers for sensor housings, deep drawn and turned parts.
Everything Balford publishes as a file is collected on this page: product catalogues, configuration tables and the checklists we use in quotation. New datasheets are added here as they are released, so this URL stays the one place to look.
Panel trucks, cylinder trolleys and hand trucks, mezzanine gates, galvanized trays, storage trolleys, bar racks and stack racks, reel racks, wagon trucks and carousel pallet turns, drum dollies and platform trucks. Each page carries the type range, the model table and the dimension drawings.
Download PDFStorage cages, mesh boxes and steel plate boxes, stacking racks, steel pallets and containers for automated warehouses. Includes 22 folding cage models with mesh pitch, wire diameter, load and volume, the mesh and plate box tables, fabric roll and cold-store stacking racks, the steel pallet table and the containers used in AS/RS, shuttle and AGV systems.
Download PDFProduct range for oxygen, NOx and exhaust gas temperature sensors: hex sizes S14 to S30, threads M12 to M27, materials 430F, 430 and 304 stainless, plus the bought-out PTFE accessories. Includes dimensions, tolerances and our declaration of what is made in-house and what is subcontracted.
Download PDFHousing configurations by series, with material, height, outer diameter, inner diameter, flange, centre hole and wall thickness in millimetres. Useful for matching an existing housing before you send a drawing.
Download CSVNine design rules for deep drawn sheet metal parts, blank development with a worked draw schedule, tooling essentials, defect cause and remedy, the tolerances a drawn housing holds as drawn, and the drawing checklist we need to quote. Written for the engineer who signs the drawing.
Download PDFHow to dimension a deep drawn housing so it can actually be inspected: the datum scheme, the seven call-outs that decide a housing, wall thinning and ironing, springback and the sizing pass, what each inspection method proves, a worked tolerance block, and the four arguments that repeat on every programme.
Download PDFA buyer-side decision framework: the seven lines a unit price is built from, five questions that qualify a supplier, auditing without flying, reading a quotation line by line, tooling ownership and exit, a second source that does not double the cost, landed cost, change control and a first-programme plan. Contains no market data and no prices.
Download PDFEighteen short technical documents on deep drawing, progressive die stamping, tolerances, magnetics, documentation and sourcing, collected into a single 37-page magazine as Volume 1 and also available one document at a time. Each came out of a question that arrives from several customers, and each is written from the tool room: every range in them is a planning value we lay a first schedule out with, or a published standard quoted as such.
Download Volume 1 PDFDimension sheets, material certificates, PPAP and FAI documentation and inspection reports are issued per part and per drawing rather than published here. Send the drawing or the part number and we will return the right document with the quotation — see the drawing requirements first if the file is not final yet.
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