--- title: Sheffer Pneumatic & Hydraulic Blog | Maintenance (2) description: Maintenance | The Sheffer Pneumatic & Hydraulic Blog covers cylinder engineering and usage -- application, specifying, configuring, maintenance, failure analysis, troubleshooting and innovation. (2) --- [![logo](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-445633034-png/Image/logo.png)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/) Search this site on Google Search Google - [Application](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/application) - [Specifying](http://sheffercorp.wordpress.com/category/specifying/) - [Seal Solutions](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/seal-solutions) - [Configuring](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/configuring) - [Troubleshooting](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/troubleshooting) - [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance) - [Innovation](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/innovation) - [Failure Analysis](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/failure-analysis) ## [4 Things to Consider When Forced with Long Term Storage of Cylinders Outdoors](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/4-things-to-consider-when-forced-with-long-term-storage-of-cylinders-outdoors) Jan 27, 2014 8:09:00 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/4-things-to-consider-when-forced-with-long-term-storage-of-cylinders-outdoors#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/hub/339121/file-475170993.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/4-things-to-consider-when-forced-with-long-term-storage-of-cylinders-outdoors) Any piece of equipment operates best when it is used regularly within normal guidelines. Take for example a classic car; it ran perfectly when you put it away last fall, but something happened during the long winter. [Read more of this post](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/4-things-to-consider-when-forced-with-long-term-storage-of-cylinders-outdoors) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) FILED UNDER: [Troubleshooting](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/troubleshooting), [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance) ## [A Handy Platform](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/11/04/a-handy-platform) Nov 4, 2013 3:00:49 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/11/04/a-handy-platform#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-448581806-jpg/blog-files/id-100121565.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/11/04/a-handy-platform) Ever thought that you have had to go a long way around a design problem to mount a particular component? Here's a hint that might possibly be a ‘quick-fix’ and a help if you're finding yourself in a similar situation. Sheffer fits tie rod supports to long stroke cylinders to stop the tie rods from twanging like an out of tune banjo - and the design feature does a wonderful job of achieving that aim. [Read more of this post](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/11/04/a-handy-platform) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) FILED UNDER: [Troubleshooting](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/troubleshooting), [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance) ## [Top 5 Reasons Your Cylinder Supplier Can Make You or Break You](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/09/23/top-5-reasons-your-cylinder-supplier-can-make-you-or-break-you) Sep 23, 2013 4:00:02 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/09/23/top-5-reasons-your-cylinder-supplier-can-make-you-or-break-you#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-448580486-jpg/blog-files/top5.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/09/23/top-5-reasons-your-cylinder-supplier-can-make-you-or-break-you) When charged with the notorious "beating your head against a wall", and at the very least unpleasant, task of choosing a cylinder supplier -- one can quickly become disenchanted with all of the industry hype and mumbo jumbo. From the mammoth sized companies, in which you can get lost and slip through the cracks, to the miniature sized companies that don't offer competitive quality or the same kinds of guarantees as the "big guys" -- the options seem pretty limited. [Read more of this post](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/09/23/top-5-reasons-your-cylinder-supplier-can-make-you-or-break-you) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) FILED UNDER: [Troubleshooting](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/troubleshooting), [Application](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/application), [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance) ## [New, Dirty Oil](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/05/13/new-dirty-oil) May 13, 2013 4:00:39 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/05/13/new-dirty-oil#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-448581356-jpg/blog-files/custom-cylinders.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/05/13/new-dirty-oil) If you’ve ever been drenched with hydraulic fluid during your career in control engineering; you may have remarked on the fact that it’s ‘dirty stuff’! Upon reflection, and when the shock died down, you knew that you were just reacting to a situation and really using the words incorrectly. However, when you look more deeply into the subject of fluids, in certain instances they really can be termed dirty. [Read more of this post](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/05/13/new-dirty-oil) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) FILED UNDER: [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance), [Innovation](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/innovation) ## [Small Cylinders and Long Pipes](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/04/08/small-cylinders-and-long-pipes) Apr 8, 2013 4:00:02 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/04/08/small-cylinders-and-long-pipes#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-448581126-jpg/blog-files/hh_large.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/04/08/small-cylinders-and-long-pipes) There was a time, almost a generation ago, when the [HH range of cylinders](http://www.sheffercorp.com/products/hydraulic-cylinders/hh-series-heavy-duty.aspx) used an array of (normally) four metallic rings as the piston seal. Their function was much along the lines of the ones used in a car engine to this day. These rings were inert to more or less anything the world threw at them. Heat was an easy task, aggressive fluids no problem and the working surface was so hard that the tube was more likely to wear over time than the seals were to lose their size. [Read more of this post](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/04/08/small-cylinders-and-long-pipes) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) FILED UNDER: [Seal Solutions](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/seal-solutions), [Troubleshooting](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/troubleshooting), [Application](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/application), [Maintenance](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/maintenance), [Innovation](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/topic/innovation) ## [Cushions, Gags and Chokes](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/02/26/cushions-gags-and-chokes) Feb 26, 2013 9:49:56 AM [LEAVE A COMMENT](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/02/26/cushions-gags-and-chokes#comments) [![](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/hs-fs/file-448580846-jpg/blog-files/engineering1.jpg)](https://blog.sheffercorp.com/2013/02/26/cushions-gags-and-chokes) It doesn’t matter where you come from, or what you call them, the arrangement of components, which hopefully bring a cylinder to a graceful stop at the end of its stroke is a useful bit of kit – provided it works right first time and every time! Sheffer calls them cushions – but it’s surprising what names other people have developed for exactly the same thing. The range of names may well be cultural or more likely regional; whatever the reason, if somebody mentions a gag, or a choke, or any other word of a similar nature, it’s probably worth asking if they are talking about a cushion. 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