A customer in New Jersey had an immediate need to replace his PVC offset bend. He was transferring a powder through it and was running into packing by the tight radius 45° elbows. He could not send us the bend and for a variety of reasons could not provide us...
Projects
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...
When a request for a custom air filter came in with an associated drawing we got to work. The original print imposed an untenable bend upon the 2″ OD butyrate tube, so we suggested mitering.After a bit of back and forth, we suggested another change. As this...
We received a challenge from a customer who needed to convey closures through a labyrinth of machines, fixtures, and clearances to get to the loading bin. The trick involved a rectangular twist. Rectangular twists provide a change of orientation of closures (lids in...
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...
Tight –radius bends are a problem to all tube benders. On a tight radius, we can run into excessive flattening, cracking of the outside wall, or buckling in the inside wall (most commonly). The problem is intensified in transparent, thermoplastics benders, for we do...
We had a request from an Escape Room manager to upgrade his Pneumatic Transfer System. There are many small systems out there that use PVC sewer pipe. It is an inexpensive tubing that does the basic job of moving a carrier vertically. But, a transparent section of...
We have extruded oval tubing for over a decade, but this is the first time we extruded it in our PETG (Provista) formulation. PETG has some advantages over CAB in that it is FDA and NSF compliant with food contact, and our employed formula has passed the NFPA 286...
We received a beautiful panoramic virtual tour of the Roasting Plant's restaurant in Michigan. The engineering here is a work of art. We provide tubing and bends in a Provista PETG formula that is NSF-compliant and FDA-approved. Click this link for a beautiful...
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....
We were approached by a lighting manufacturer to form a suitable transparent casing and shell for an industrial light. Normally extruding this would be the answer, but the quantity needed did not justify the tooling. So, using a secondary fabrication process, we...
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....
We can bend to almost any design. Here, we received a challenge from a breakfast nook company for a three-dimensional bend on a 3.259 OD Tritan tube. Pictured here is the model, we cannot show the final piece. The drawing shows the challenge. Here is the result....
We were recently asked to make an offset of a 5" Sch 10 Tritan pipe. While Tritan has excellent Mechanical, Optical and Thermal Properties, it takes some skill to bend it. Offsets are particularly difficult, but here we have a Tritan bend in its cooling blocks.