A fast-food chicken franchise recently displayed featured a custom-made pink ping pong table and accompanying net designed by a prominent pop musician. He called it "the largest pneumatic ping pong device in the world." Our job was to make it. After mapping the design...
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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 resin is famous for cracking,...
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...
Our LED tubing was put to a beautiful use with Objects of Common Interest in a Brussels display. The architects chose our line of Stratus tubing (6" OD). The project came to us first in concept, design, and fabrication. The material used to produce these lights is an...
Nature loves logarithmic spirals and so do I. Back in my junior year of high school, I had a fabulous earth-science teacher who taught us how to do scientific research on foraminifera growing around heat "enrichment" zones from power plants in the Northern Shore of...
When we first received an inquiry into making tubing for a banking commercial we were amused. And, from their animations, we knew that this was going to be fun.The project had its challenges though. The production company had no experience in pneumatic conveying but...
Over two years ago we received an inquiry from Glenn Stracher, a geologist at EGSC. He needed a plastics tube that could be fabricated and colored to function as a replacement piece for an instrument panel on a classic Chevelle restoration. Glenn gave us constant...
Mandy McGarrigle, an emerging young fashion designer, requested a clear plastic hoop as an accessory in a fashion show. She needed a 1" OD tube with a thin wall bent upon a 12.625" center radius. We are used to providing prototypes and we went to work on her bend....
A well-known entertainment company contacted us about a special project. They wanted a large OD tube to move along the sides and corners of an amusement building. But, their print called for an 8" OD tube on a 24" radius. This required a solvent-welded-mitered bend....
In July we received a print to bend tubing for a trade-show coffee roaster display. We had two weeks to meet a deadline. We elected to make the bends out of a 3" OD butyrate tubing with a .125 wall. The bend radii were as tight as 8" CLR. Dry ice worked as the...
When the noted Adirondack Studios asked for a light diffusive tube for a “fire ring” I had no idea that it would lead to a trip to Chicago and some much-needed culture. All that I knew was that this fire ring was to be used in an opera. It was to be made in 16...
The Knock Knock children's museum in Baton Rouge is set to open this August. We are delighted to have participated in one of the principle attractions, the pneumatic tube carrier exhibit. Designed by Zaphod Beeblebrox, the helix consists of a a spiral of 60 degree...
Busada has been making plastic tubing for over 6 decades, but one of our customers, Aerocom Systems, Inc. has over eighty years of design development in pneumatic tube systems worldwide. They recently designed the pneumatic props for a summer film, "Logan Lucky" and...
I have enjoyed my time corresponding with Carey Parks. We talk colors, engraving, music, and the lot. Butyrate and Provista (PETG) have specific acoustic properties and it is something that I would like to study further. For example, Onda Corp. has some data on...