Scientific Applications

We were up to the challenge

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...

Dominion Energy

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...

Butyrate Tubing Clarity And Toughness

Butyrate tubing (CAB) is known for its toughness, but when properly extruded it can compete even with cast acrylic in clarity. At Busada, we cater to the small order; we run in small lots and low screw speeds. Quality matters here, not throughput. We recently sent a...

Water Sediment Tester:Butyrate Pipe

A water treatment company needed a system to display its product in its showroom and for trade shows. The system required 4" Schedule 40 Pipe that would be bent, coupled, threaded, and coupled with tees and wyes. It was challenging in a number of ways. We had to cram...

Pneumatic System Senior Mechanical Engineering Project

A 5-man team of senior mechanical engineering students at the University of Missouri contacted us for their required capstone design project. They were to build a functioning model of a coal log pipeline design which was patented by two Mizzou professors back in the...

Macro-Algae Bio-Absorption Filters

Pax Bellum contacted us regarding their macro-algae bio-absorption filters for the aquaculture and aquarium industry. The devices use a central light assembly consisting of a plurality of LEDs affixed to a water pipe or heat pipe. They were looking to replace the...

Busada Core Tubing

Busada began selling oceanographic core liner tubing in 1958 for Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. CAB tubing has stood the test of time for it is resistant to harsh environments, very transparent, and resists breakage in frigid environments. Our tubing is clear, rigid,...

Snowmetrics Snowboard Equipment

SnowMetrics has been using Busada Tubing for decades. They choose our sampler tubes for wall thickness and diameter accuracy. They specify butyrate tubing for its enhanced properties of toughness, weatherability, and shatter resistance. Tubes are 12″ in length...

Round To Rectangular II

Earlier we posted on our ability to fabricate rectangular tubing from our stock round Busada 200 Tubing. Recently we had a request to a 4.375 x 3.375" rectangular tube for a prototype test for pneumatic conveyance of squat paper cups. This is an inexpensive...

Forty Years of Vibracore Sample Tubing

For decades, Busada has been extruding sample core tubing for oceanographic research; and off-shore bottom sampling in the search for submerged oil reserves. The clear tubing may be removed intact from the pipe, preserving the original spatial relations of the sample...

Hospital Pneumatic Tubing Systems

Recently I heard of this “Medical Mystery” on an NPR “Morning Edition” broadcast. My ears perked up when I heard the words “hospital pneumatic systems.” Apparently hospital pneumatic systems have a problem to solve; until we learn to beam up blood samples from one end...

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