Feature Article: Turning to a Better Answer

This article originally appeared in Lift and Access, November/December 2016 -By Daniel Hanawalt & Bo Li United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Elliott Equipment Co., Omaha, Neb., manufactures telescopic boom cranes, truck-and…

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Feature Article: Small Slip Rings are a Big Deal

This article originally appeared in North American Clean Energy, July 15, 2017 -By Jesse Shearer Engineering Manager United Equipment Accessories, Inc. When most people think of wind turbines, bigger components…

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Feature Article: Small Component, Big Reliability

This article originally appeared in Wind Systems Magazine, March 15, 2018. -By Jesse Shearer Engineering Manager United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Fiber optic rotary joints are being considered more and more…

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Feature Article: Selecting The Right Slip Ring And Hydraulic Swivel Combo Units

This article originally appeared in Crane and Hoist Canada, July/August 2019. -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Boom trucks commonly use aerial work platforms with booms…

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Feature Article: How to Protect Hydraulic Swivels from Hostile Environments

This article originally appeared in Power & Motion | Hydraulics & Pneumatics, July 8, 2019. -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Regardless of the industry or…

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Feature Article: Mounting Requirements of Hydraulic Swivels

This article originally appeared in Fluid Power Journal, March/April 2017 -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. There’s more to the mounting requirements of a hydraulic swivel…

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Feature Article: Hydraulic Swivel/Slip Ring Combination Unit Options

This article originally appeared in Crane Hot Line, April 2017 -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Many buyers looking for a new hydraulic swivel/slip ring combination…

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Feature Article: Pick the Right Swivel and Slip Ring

This article originally appeared in Lift & Access, September – October 2017. -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. A separated-style hydraulic swivel and electrical slip ring…

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How Much Does a Slip Ring Cost?

Because United Equipment Accessories builds only custom slip ring assemblies there is no simple formula to answer the question “What does a slip ring cost?” Virtually every slip ring assembly…

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Hydraulic swivel excavator fitted with a log grapple

Feature Article: Proper Maintenance of Hydraulic Swivels & Systems

This article originally appeared in Power & Motion | Hydraulics & Pneumatics, May 10, 2018. -By Brady Haugo Hydraulic Engineering Supervisor United Equipment Accessories, Inc. Proper or no maintenance of…

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Feature Article: How to Keep Your Turbine Spinning

This article originally appeared in North American Clean Energy. March/April 2018 Issue – By Jesse Shearer Engerineering Manager United Equipment Accessories The design and manufacturing of a slip ring component…

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How Does UEA Assemble and Test Hydraulic Swivels?

United Equipment Accessories (UEA) is unique in our comprehensive testing for all our hydraulic swivels before they leave our facility. We do complete testing to ensure that our customers receive…

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What is a Slip Ring and How Does It Work

How Does a Slip Ring Work

We know that slip rings transfer power and data between a stationary and a 360 ° rotating surface. But how does this happen? How does a slip ring work? On…

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How does the hydraulic swivel process work

How Does the Custom Hydraulic Swivel Process Work?

When a hydraulic swivel is needed, many applications require a custom hydraulic swivel be designed and built. We thought we would take some time to explain how the process of…

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How Do We Move Hydraulic Swivels?

Over the years, the product line at United Equipment Accessories (UEA) has evolved from primarily electrical slip rings to include a higher mix of hydraulic swivels. Hydraulic swivels are ever…

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How Can UEA Help with Replacement Parts or Repairs?

At United Equipment Accessories (UEA), we pride ourselves on being willing and able to supply replacement parts for any products we sell. I enjoy hearing the sense of relief when…

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How Can Mounting Be Customized on My Slip Ring?

Many of the slip rings that United Equipment Accessories (UEA) creates are customized to the customer’s needs. We currently have three custom slip rings at different stages of the assembly…

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How You Can Customize An Industrial Slip Ring

One of the largest electrical slip rings United Equipment Accessories has made stands 55″ tall and is 45″ wide! This custom electrical slip ring features a painted steel enclosure with…

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IP Ratings for Slip Rings

Electrical slip rings require ingress protection (IP) based on the personal protection requirements, environmental conditions, and mounting position. What is an IP rating? IP ratings are based on international standard…

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Power and Communication Slip Ring Assembly

Power & Communication in One Slip Ring Assembly

As a slip ring design engineer, a common question that I receive is whether we can provide a slip ring that can handle both power and communications. The answer is…

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Position Sensing Cable Reels

As part of our continuous effort to offer customers new, unique components that add value to our products and consumer applications, UEA now offers magnetic drive, or non-contact rotary encoders,…

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What is the Function of a UEA Slip Ring in a Cable Reel?

The slip ring in a cable reel serves an important function in facilitating the continuous and unrestricted rotation of the cable reel while maintaining electrical connectivity. Here’s a breakdown of…

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Selecting the Right Cable Reel for the Application

When considering your cable reel needs and the size of the cable reel required, the primary requirement to consider is the cable itself. What cable length do you need? What…

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Custom Slip Ring with Air Swivel Integration for Industrial Stretch Wrappers

An end user of several industrial stretch wrapper machines had an existing 24 and 32-circuit slip ring assembly that needed two additional air passages. The original equipment manufacturer of the…

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Mounting and Torquing of Rotary Unions

Rotary unions manufactured by United Equipment Accessories (UEA) go into a wide array of machinery. Each application that we design for is different from the next. While there are usually…

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Looking For Some Extra Space? Reducing the Height of a Slip Ring Assembly

Recently, some of our customers have been asking, “What can be done to reduce the overall height in our S15A series slip rings?” Typically these slip rings are designed to…

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wire brush slipring. size reduction possible when wire brushes are used verses the conventional carbon brush design.

Leveraging Wire Brush Technology, and SLS Additive Manufacturing to Reduce Slip Ring Footprint

Here in the Innovation and Technology department at UEA, we are constantly attempting to challenge the status quo of the slip ring manufacturing industry. One of the biggest challenges we…

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Rotary Unions in High-Temperature Applications

Heat can take a toll on outdoor equipment and heavy machinery. The heat damage done to the machinery or components, like a rotary union isn’t always immediately noticeable. For example,…

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Rotating Platform Slip Ring

United Equipment Accessories (UEA) recently designed and built a custom electrical slip ring to be used in a rotating platform application. The features for this new slip ring include: (16)16A-300…

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Rotational Dryer Slip Ring

A new 42-circuit electrical slip ring has made its way through United Equipment Accessories. This S15D series slip ring with mounting tube assembly was designed to be mounted horizontally in…

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ROV Slip Ring Refurbishment

Currently, many oil and gas companies, especially offshore operations such as ROV operators, are feeling the weight of the low price of oil and the cost pressures on the oil…

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Slip Ring Designs for the Forestry Industry

Rugged Designs for the Forestry Industry

As United Equipment Accessories progresses through with a myriad of new hydraulic swivel requests and designs, I’d like to take a minute and show off one of our most popular…

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Setting a Higher Standard

United Equipment Accessories’ name has become synonymous with quality slip rings for the wind industry. The charge to our Research and Development (R&D) staff is to always do better and…

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Slip Ring and Rotary Union Solutions for Scrap, Demolition, and Recycling Industry

UEA manufactures custom slip ring and rotary union solutions for the scrap, demolition, and recycling industry to meet the demands of this rugged application. High pressures, vibration, high and low…

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Rotary Union Testing for Extreme Environments

United Equipment Accessories (UEA) has completed extensive client specific testing over the years. Our hydraulic swivel line is no exception. Not only do we offer endurance and application testing for our…

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Rotary Union Design Blog Series: Vibration, Resonance, and System Response

Many of us know the sound and irritation of loading the washing machine too full. During the spin cycle of the wash, if the weight within the washing machine is…

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Preventing Hydraulic Leaks

A longstanding problem with any hydraulic system is that they eventually will leak. Many times, United Equipment Accessories (UEA) is contacted when a potential customer is having leaking issues with…

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United Equipment Accessories Customer Service

Next Level Customer Service

UEA handles all sorts of projects that differ in complexity. Some are very simple and require nothing more than an email while others can be very complex and require weeks…

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Protecting Against Corrosion with Alodine

At United Equipment Accessories (UEA), we offer a variety of ways to protect the slip rings we manufacture from corrosion. Some of these ways include painting, anodizing, and providing stainless…

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Replacement Rotary Unions

Rotary unions, also known as hydraulic rotary swivels, rotary swivel joints, and hydraulic swivels, are precision components designed to transfer fluid from a stationary source to a rotating piece of…

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