When engineers are altering their designs in order to make them compatible with off-the-shelf fluid-transfer couplings, it’s time to start customizing the couplings themselves. In the long run, it’s often easier and more affordable to turn to a company that provides custom hydraulic couplings.
Advantages of custom hydraulic connectors
Custom fluid transfer couplings, or custom hydraulic connectors, can simplify the entire design process. It’s best to work with a company that can analyze the situation with your design engineers to create a hydraulic coupling that is adapted to the machine being built from the ground up and not the other way around. Essentially, the idea is to put the emphasis on the main system.
Ways to customize hydraulic connectors
Because there are many elements to hydraulic couplings, there are many ways that they can be customized. For starters, there are different ways that the connect/disconnect action can be set up, from push/pull to beyond. The size of the coupling itself can be customized to accommodate the amount and rate of fluid flowing through it. A rule of thumb is that larger connectors allow more fluid through them, but they are less able to contain pressure than smaller connectors.
When it comes to making a coupling more user-friendly or mountable, the shape itself can be altered. Additionally, using brass or aluminum in applications where the strength of steel is not necessary saves money.
