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Tool Bails. (Metalcasting Supplies).


Honsa Ergonomic ergonomic - Concerning ergonomics or exhibitting good ergonimics.  Technologies, Inc., has designed a tool bail that provides hanging suspension for its air tool line. The component allows an air tool to hang from a tool balancer attached to an overhead rail system, which permits raising, lowering and back-and-forth movements with minimal physical effort.

The tool bail attaches to balancers and overhead rails using a closed steel ring connected to the balancer. A coil of cable inside the balancer allows the tool to be raised and lowered, and a zero gravity zero gravity
n.
The condition of apparent weightlessness occurring when the centrifugal force on a body exactly counterbalances the gravitational attraction on it.
 feature keeps the tool at the height at which it was used most recently.

Use of a bail relieves the operator from having to bear the weight of the tool during chipping or grinding grinding, process by which surface material is removed from an object, usually metal, by the abrasive action of a rotating wheel or a moving belt that contains abrasive grains. , which reduces muscle fatigue fatigue, in engineering
fatigue, in engineering, microscopic cracking of materials, especially metals, after repeated applications of stress. Fissures may be formed within pieces of metal during their manufacture when, while cooling from the molten state,
 and ergonomic concerns in the cleaning and finishing department. Tool bails are available in models that rotate while hanging in a horizontal plane horizontal plane
n.
A plane crossing the body at right angles to the coronal and sagittal planes. Also called transverse plane.


horizontal plane 
 or permit work in a vertical straight down position.--Honsa Ergonomic Technologies, Inc.

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Date:Jul 1, 2002
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