| Message: | I always remember an unusual inquiry email about hydraulic relief valve from Ellenburger, a Russian customer, at the beginning of this year. The email subject was "Don't reply if without ability and confidence", he should have been in trouble at other manufacturers. The content of the email was about testing 20 hydraulic relief valves, with detailed part processing drawings and parameter requirements attached. That was a hydraulic relief valve with high requirements, and the accuracy of valve hole is required to be within 2μM, the material hardness of the valve spool is HRC68, and the surface of the valve body is galvanized nickel alloy, which must withstand high pressure of 450bar. In addition, the durability test of the hydraulic relief valve must pass 2 million times. The requirements in terms of manufacturing quality, function and performance for this hydraulic relief valve is all clearly indicated.
After more than 3 hours of discussion by AAK engineers, I replied to Ellenburger that AAK was able to produce this hydraulic relief valve at a development cost of 2,500 US dollars. After the email was sent, there was no reply, and I didn't follow up. Because I believe there are few manufacturers who can make this hydraulic relief valve. For example, in Ningbo, the "hometown of hydraulic valves in China", perhaps only 3 factories have this technical ability. |
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