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  2. Simpson Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    The company was founded by Barclay Simpson in Oakland in 1956, as a successor to his father's window screen company. [1] Simpson manufactured joist hangers and the company's subsidiary Simpson Strong-Tie Co. Inc. became a dominant producer of structural connectors in North America and Europe. [1]

  3. List of railroad truck parts - Wikipedia

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    The Railroad Car Builder's Dictionary. Dover Publications. White, John H. (1978). The American Railroad Passenger Car. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801819652. OCLC 2798188. White, John H. Jr. (1993). The American Railroad Freight Car: From the Wood-Car Era to the Coming of Steel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

  4. Tie (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    A hurricane tie used to fasten a rafter to a stud. A tie, strap, tie rod, eyebar, guy-wire, suspension cables, or wire ropes, are examples of linear structural components designed to resist tension. [1] It is the opposite of a strut or column, which is designed to resist compression. Ties may be made of any tension resisting material.

  5. Harbor Freight Tools - Wikipedia

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    Harbor Freight Tools won a declassification of the class action; that is, the court found that all the individual situations were not similar enough to be judged as a single class, and that their claims would require an individual-by-individual inquiry, so the case could not be handled on a class basis.

  6. Strong tie - Wikipedia

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    Strong tie may refer to: Simpson Strong Tie, a subsidiary and brand of structural hardware produced by the Simpson Manufacturing Company Interpersonal ties , in sociology

  7. Trinity Industries - Wikipedia

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    Trinity Industries Leasing tank cars on the Norfolk Southern Railway. TrinityRail manufactures and sells railroad cars (hopper cars, gondolas, flat cars, autoracks, intermodal cars, tank cars, and boxcars) and component parts. Its customers include railroads, leasing companies and shippers of products. [19]

  8. Simpson Performance Products - Wikipedia

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    To this day, drivers in the NHRA refer to their fire suits as the "Simpson Suit," primarily due to the fact that Simpson Performance Products is synonymous with the fire suit, and also, even to this day, the Simpson name still appears on several of the fire suits, including those worn by the NHRA's Safety Safari crews.

  9. Cross-bolted bearing - Wikipedia

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    A cross-bolted bearing is a bearing, usually a crankshaft main bearing of a piston engine, reinforced with additional transverse bolts placed at 90-degrees to the load. Most bearing caps are retained by two bolts, one on each side of the bearing journal, and parallel to the piston travel. A cross-bolted bearing has one or more additional bolts ...