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If you’re new to Bare Conductive’s Electric Paint, it’s just like any other water-based paint, except that it conducts electricity and allows you to make your projects interactive. Paint wires or sensors directly onto almost any material around you, including paper, wood, plastic and glass, then watch it come to life. Here are some quick and easy ideas on what you can do with Electric Paint.

1. Paint a Capacitive Sensor - Turn your simple piece of paper into a capacitive sensor with Bare Conductive Electric Paint. The surface becomes conductive once the paint is applied, so when it’s connected to a small device like the Bare Conductive Touch Board, you can experiment with triggering audio and visuals

Catch Machine DRO in the latest edition of the Manufacturing Machinery World magazine this month and read an interesting editorial on our DRO's & Encoders on page 25. It’s a great read with an overview of selected products we offer in terms of our digital readouts and encoders from a host of leading brands such as Mitutoyo, Newall and our own popular brand, M-DRO.

Introducing our new Plastron branded Sealed ABS Enclosures - Our range of cost-effective IP65/IP66 rated Sealed ABS Plastic enclosures are tough, lightweight units that will keep components safe and secure. These Sealed ABS Plastic Enclosures are the ideal option for industrial electronics such as analogue and digital instruments, sensors, heating, climate & ventilation systems, machine building, construction equipment interfaces and security systems.

Browse our full range of Plastron Sealed ABS Enclosures here, or for more information, you can contact our Technical Product Specialist on 01992 455924.

Today we celebrate those who continue to develop products and unlock new technologies, growing our economy. Manufacturing businesses create jobs through entrepreneurship, and their competitiveness revitalises Manufacturing across all four corners of the world.

Today’s science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) graduates will power the next chapter of production and innovation for the next generation of manufacturing professionals. We are proud to supply a large number of Manufacturing businesses with precision Engineering equipment and metrology tools from leading brands from our key partners.

Browse our Machine DRO store to see our full range of measuring tools for all precision measuring applications, alternatively, you can contact our Technical Product

Mixing drinks with ultrasonic waves is proving popular amongst modern bars and across the world as they are equipped with equipment such as our Ultrasonic Cleaners, which have their roots in the laboratory or apothecary.

Brand Ambassador of Crystal Head Vodka, Chris Baldwin, has been working alongside Stu Bale at Crucible in London, England to create Ultrasonic flavour infusions for their vodka. Crucible is the first creative hub for drinks and has one of the best flavour labs in the UK. Chris has been developing new ideas and techniques using Ultrasonic flavour infusion, with an endless list of flavours that can be created using Ultrasonic Cleaners.

Watch Chris demonstrate how you can create a Lemon Peel Martini using Crystal Head Vodka, lemon peel and our Ultrasonic Cleaner. Click here to watch the video.

We are pleased to announce our new Gold Plating Solution range, Edona Plating, which is available now. Our new brand offers the latest electroplating technologies, products and services to the Jewellery industry, as well as other users who are looking to refresh their products via plating solutions. Edona Plating specialises in precious metal finishing, electroplating, protective coatings and precious metal recovery.

Plating solutions are available in Rose Gold, 14 karat gold, 18 karat Gold & 24 karat Gold (more plating options to follow), which all come in either 1 litre or 30ml bottles. The 1-litre bottles contain 8g of gold, whereas the 30ml bottles contain 10g of gold. Edona Plating Solutions are perfect for bringing a luxury look and feel to all jewellery, pens, coins, metal items and anything else that you feel can do with a gold finish.

There are more than 9 billion WIFI devices in the world and everyone is looking for the strongest & fastest connection speed, and it’s about to get a lot faster. However, the next generation of WIFI (known as WIFI 6) isn’t just about simply boosting the speed. It brings more benefits for our future-facing upgrades designed to make sure our internet speeds don’t suddenly decrease in a few years’ time. The new WIFI 6 is starting to arrive this year, and there’s a good chance it’ll be inside your latest technologies at home and at work.

A new naming system, from the WIFI Alliance, identifies WIFI generations by a numerical sequence making it much easier to understand the technology on offer:

• Wi-Fi6 are devices that support 802.11ax technology

• Wi-Fi5 are devices that

It’s great to see our customers excitement when they receive their items from us, especially when we can capture the moment on video. This PCB Soldering customer, in particular, has created a video on unboxing his new Aoyue 852A+ Hot Air SMD Rework Station as well as writing a short blog.

If you would like to read the blog, please click here. If you would like to watch the video review and unboxing of the package, please click here.

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It’s one of the first tools that come to mind when you ask a machinist to name a measuring tool and the caliper is normally the most important tool in their toolbox. A recent Top 5 Digital Calipers for Machinists article put together and published by Practical Machinist have given the crown to the worthy winner which is the Mitutoyo 500-196-30 Absolute AOS Digimatic Caliper.

The Japanese-made Mitutoyo AOS Digitmatic Caliper is the best in class when it comes to precision metrology hand tools. It’s equipped with standard outside and inside jaws, made from hardened stainless steel construction and has ABSOLUTE System scale for error-free, high-speed measurements. The ZERO/ABS button allows

Accurately finding the centre position to your workpiece has just got a lot easier with the new Moore and Wright MW612 Universal Dial Centre Finder for Internal and External Alignment.

The precision centre finder is used to accurately position the tool axis, centrally to the workpiece. It’s an easy to use gauge able to find the centre of a bore, external cylindrical boss or align with centre punch marks and is supplied with 6 feelers for internal and external alignment. The 10mm diameter mounting shaft has a metric gauge fitted to the