Production Part Approval Process – What You Need to Know Fabrication requires not only quality and precision, but consistency. We’re making the same parts over and over to be used in the same manner across different devices, machines, and equipment...
Where Have All the Welders Gone? A Look at Welder Shortage in the US. A few weeks back, we talked about the idea of machines one day replacing welders and fabricators. If a day is coming where that happens, it’s a ways off. Right now, there’s a very high...
Metal Tubing vs. Plastic Tubing Tubing and pipes are a major part of our modern infrastructure. Actually, they’ve been around for quite some time, dating as far back as ancient Rome. Back then, pipes were used almost exclusively for water and plumbing....
The Shape of Tubing – Cylindrical or Square? When people think of tubing, they think of a cylinder, and for good reason. “Cylinder shape” is actually used in the definition of a tube. That said, square tubing is something that exists on the market. What...
The Science of Manipulating Metal Part 2 – How a Tube is Bent without Breaking In a recent post, we talked about the science of metal welding. Today, we’d like to talk about the other side of our fabrication services: tube bending. Before we get into how metal...
Knowing How to Order Metal Tubing Describing a bent metal tube sounds simple enough. It’s grey/silver. It’s metal. It’s tube shaped. It has a curve. But you could take a completely different metal tube, and all of those descriptions would apply to it as...
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