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Manufacturers who bend tubing using the same process day in and day out are often searching for faster and more efficient tube bending machines that are capable of producing precision bent tubes. Daily applications range from aerospace to medical devices ... |
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Extrusions of all Sorts
Extrusions are everywhere. Just look at conveyor systems, scaffolding, playground equipment, swimming pools, and furniture. These are just a few industries that make use of extrusions that need bending. And let’s not forget abo... |
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Employing a Transfer Machine Can Drive Costs Down
The Need
During the bulk of 20th century most manufacturers in the United States enjoyed a long ride immune to foreign import pressure. As the century approached an end, several industries witnessed t... |
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Bent tubing is everywhere. Just look under the hood of a car, in the back of a pool, or inside a plane. Tube benders are used everyday to support all kinds of equipment. Knowing how to design and then bend the tubing can often translate into products t... |
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The Need for Precision Bent Tubing
A fair amount of industrial equipment consumes a significant amount of metal tubing. Some of this tubing gets bent into specific shapes as often described by a 2D drawing. A 2D drawing contains the necessary informat... |
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The Coil Market
It may not be obvious but most folks pass within a few feet of a circular coil every day. Circular tubular coils can be found in beverage dispensing machines, oil & gas processing equipment, swimming pool heat pumps, laboratory equipment... |
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Decades of Bendng
Vertical compression tube benders have been around for more than 50 years. Historically associated with high volume bending, press benders continue to play a role in production environments where parts consist of 1 or 2 bends. Press b... |
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The Market for Copper Tube Bending
Copper tubing is used in several markets including refrigeration, laboratory equipment, and process equipment. Copper is one of the softest metals to bend. Being a soft metal is helpful yet at the same time can be a d... |
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Over the previous decades tube rotary draw bending machines have made use of numerous devices to hold/clamp a tube in position as the tube is being bent. For example, the job of a clamp die on a tube bending machine is to firmly clamp the tube and thus p... |
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Why a Loader?
In short, a device to auto load a fabrication process can often make the difference between questionability profitable and profitable. Let’s face it, direct labor can be expensive and is somewhat susceptible to human error. Both factors d... |
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The Market for Fabricated Coax Cable
Coax cable is a common means to transport high frequency signals in microwave communication systems. Coax cable can be found in commercial and military applications all over the world. Everything from cell phone tow... |
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The Need To Connect
A significant majority of fabricated tubing needs to have one or both ends formed into a specific shape. Quite often one or both ends of a tube needs to be formed so that it can be mated to another part. The mating part might be ano... |
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The Need Drives the Market
Throughout the world of tube end forming, one of the common types of end forms involves expanding the end of a tube. The reasons for expanding a tube’s end are many. For example, lawn & garden equipment often requires that on... |
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Pitfalls in Feeding
The process of advancing or feeding a tube during a forming process can seem straight forward. Simply don’t loose track of the length of tube advanced and you have it made. Quite often it is not that simple. For example, in a roll ... |
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The Background
If you have ever been involved with bending tubing , chances are you have had a need to control the roundness of the tube/pipe in the bend zone. When it comes to bending a tube, the roundness of a tube in the bend zone is often referred ... |
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How a collet closer can influence quality
A collet closer is found on a CNC or NC tube bender and serves an important role in the overall bending process. When quality is good, little attention is paid to its operation. However, when one or more qualit... |
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Choosing the right type of hydraulic power supply can make all the difference.
Choosing the right type of hydraulic power supply can make all the difference.
The use of hydraulics to form tubing has been around for a long time. Well understood, hydraul... |
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Various Techniques Used To Mount Bend Tooling
There are a few popular ways to hold/support the clamp and pressure die on a rotary draw bending machine. They all aim to accomplish the same thing. Namely, provide for a means of precision vertical alignm... |
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Why Use a Mandrel Extractor
Bending a tube and preventing it from collapsing is a mystery to most folks. This is especially true for those whose lively hood does not depend on bending tubes. For those that bend tubing for a living, knowing how to impro... |
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The Problem
So you have been thinking about how you can make improvements to your existing tube fabrication processes. You have been talking to the folks on the shop floor, a few people in the office, and anyone who might be able shed light on your need... |
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The Common Thread
Regardless of the bending process used to bend a tube, the vast majority of tube fabricators are interested in the quality of the bend angle produced. Bend angle quality often translates into a tolerance surrounding a target angle. Me... |
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A Progressive Idea
A progressive die set used in a stamping process is common. It involves a spool of bulk material being fed into a series of dies that quite often transform the flat raw material into a useful component. The idea of a series of dies t... |
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Punching features in a tube perpendicular to the center axis of the tube is an everyday event worldwide. Whether you are punching with or without a mandrel, there is most often an unwantedpiece of metal (the slug) to contend with. The slug usually takes... |
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The Race Track
Every once in a while you may take on a job that presents unforeseen challenges. I’m sure the flash backs are whizzing through your mind’s eye now. When they first happen they can be painful at first. However, when you figure out the pu... |
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How simple fabrication processes can jump start your heat transfer efficiency
Refrigeration systems are designed to transfer heat whereby the goal is to remove heat from a warm area and make the local environment cooler. You will find this process in h... |
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Accounting For The Details
It is something we are often faced with; putting a price on a fabricated tube that we are asked to quote. Many factors can come into play. Some so obvious we tend to gloss right over them. And some factors are not so obviou... |
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A Bit of History
In the world of heat transfer there is often a need to bend a tube in the shape of a serpentine. This happens worldwide every month consuming tons of aluminum, copper, steel, and stainless steel tubing. From a manufacturing viewpoint, ... |
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The basics of trouble shooting a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder on an industrial machine
It doesn’t matter what type of machine you have, chances are the control circuit for a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder are very similar. This is true for tube bend... |
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The Need For Telescopic Tubing
It would be nice if one size fit all. But the world is not quite like that. This is true for political leaders as it is for tubular assemblies such as a camera tri pod. I’m sure you can see it now. Clearly a tripod has ... |
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The Pitch
Here’s the situation. You have been bending round profiles, square profiles, and sometimes even rectangular profiles. You have even bent the rectangular profiles the easy way and the hard way. Up until this point you have worked your way thr... |
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Why Serpentine Tube Bending
The answer is simple; to transfer heat. A tube bent into a shape of a serpentine allows an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to extract heat from one environment and transport that heat to another area. For example, a re... |
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Looking better with less wrinkles
The vast majority of copper tube bending never comes close to producing wrinkles on the inside of a bend. However, the design of some bent tubular parts is prone to wrinkles. If the bend radius is small enough and/or t... |
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How turning the tables on an unwanted wrinkle can be profitable.
There has been a lot of time and money spent on removing unwanted wrinkles. I’m not talking about the botox industry. I’m talking about those unwanted ones that have a tendency of appeari... |
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