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Rectangular Tubing Bend Guide
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 ...
NPT Threading of Butyrate Pipe
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 ...
Supporting Tubing
In any pneumatic tubing system, the installer must choose not only the pathway of the tubing, the radius of the bends, and airspeed, but also support. One can support the tubing by many means ...
Is Butyrate an Antistat?
Is butyrate an antistat? We get this question often, and the answer is 'at times' and 'no.'
Every winter we receive calls asking for help with static buildup in pneumatic systems. Lower ...
Solvent Welding Butyrate Tubing
1. Solvent-welding butyrate tubing requires, well, a solvent (acetone alone will do it), some butyrate resin, a jar, and a brush.
2. We can provide you with some "fines," or you could cut some ...
Rectangular Tubing Upgrades in Clarity
Rectangular transparent tubing formed in an extrusion vacuum system has some inherent problems in clarity. For one, the vacuum sizer heads need extra length to combat the vacuum's tendency to ...
Sleeves or Couplings? Pros and Cons
Some of our customers prefer sleeves, some prefer metal compression couplings. So, here is a shortlist of the pros and cons of both.
Call the shop if you have any questions. ...
More Tight Radius Bends
Here above we have an example of a larger OD tight-radius-bends. This one is a 4.750 OD tube bent on a 13" center-line radius.
You will notice that the right side of the bend has an extended ...
Set Screw Coupling Of Sleeves
Busada transparent sleeves can be coupled in many ways: solvent bonding, solvent spot welding, axial slit and clamping, radial slit and clamping, and heat expansion. In situations where ...
Measuring Transparency, Lensing, And Optical Clarity
2) Transparency
So how do scientists measure clear plastic? The boundaries between ‘transparent’ or ‘clear’ and ‘translucent’ or ‘opaque’ are often highly subjective. What is acceptable for one ...
Zero Tangent Bends
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. ...
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
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 ...