When Bayer came to us with a rush project for a children's learning display we faced a daunting challenge. We needed to take clear, transparent CAB 4" OD tubing and bend it into complex 3D shapes. This was necessary to conserve space and allow the display to break...
Charles Busada
Ameri-Cure Inc. is a US manufacturer and leader in spray booth manufacturing for customers all over North America for decades. The Company offers waterborne spray booths, drying systems, truck booths, paint mixing rooms, and prep-stations for high-end painting and...
When Boss display contacted us to make a colored-tubing exhibit we were hesitant to take the order. The display consists of four large bends with clockwise and counterclockwise rotations with evolving radii and angles. But, these tubes would be twenty-two feet in...
Plastic Fabrication Company Uses Clear Plastic Sheet for Custom Acrylic Fabrication Occasionally our customers need fabricated sheets for their product. Dominion Energy recentlyneeded a new wet calibration rig to replace a dirty old yellowing acrylic rig. The project...
Building a Flow Loop with Clear Rigid Plastic Tubing and NPT Threads We were recently contacted by a Ph.D. student working on a multi-phase flow problem. The application called for a clear rigid tubing flow loop that would maintain a circular shape under pressure with...
As we have been developing a Stratus tubing line we had a challenge brought before us this week. Our customer wanted to see if we could make a tight-radius 2" OD tube that could be sectioned together to form a circular helix. The challenge here is the length of tubing...
We received a request for a Tritan oval tube that would be used as a robotic casing. The challenge was that the tube had to fit within the wall grooves of a machined cap. Rectangular tubing, due to the extrusion process can develop stresses along its major axis....
When a pneumatic fiber transfer system required a large bell in a short space, we had to get creative. The system was in need of a bell that would transfer the fibers at high speed from a 3-5/8″ ID up to a 5 1/2 ID in about 12″ in length. That type of bell not only...
Rectangular tubing bend orientation can be confusing. Many simply call the two options the “hard way,” and the “easy way.” We designate two planes of rectangular-tube bending: Y, (around the Major axis) or X= around the minor axis. Our rectangular bends are used, by...
Butyrate, being a cellulosic, is friendly to most fabrications. The days are past when one could purchase butyrate fittings such as elbows and tees, nevertheless, butyrate pipe can be connected to metal or PVC pipe by means of compression fittings, slip fit and O-ring...
Frequently we are asked to make UBends (180°) bends. In a UBend, the offset is twice the radius, and keeping the offset is the trick. In thermoplastics bends the tubing tends to pull in or out (memory) and work as a thermometer with radiant heat. Our process minimizes...
Quite often our customers ask us for bends without tangents. Mostly it is for aesthetic reasons, but often enough it is for a particular process need. Such bends bring a special challenge. Thermoplastics' bends, due to the requirement of secondary heating, have...
A Spanish museum contacted us to see if we could fix a work of art. The actual artwork is an elaborate set of collars that connect small-diameter tubing bent on a tight-radius circle. They sent us a sample of an acrylic tube. Acrylic is famous for cracking, crazing,...
Is it a Pipe or a Tube? We get this question all the time, and sadly it usually comes when a customer orders "pipe" when what they really want is "tubing." What is the difference between pipe and tubing? To put it simply, all pipe is tubing, but not all tubing is...