The oil and gas industry relies heavily on the usage of metal in numerous stages, from extraction to delivery to the final customer. To serve the purpose of various applications involved in the industry use of metals is more than 60 percent. The weldability of metals is why carbon and stainless steel are the two…
Traditionally, hardbanding materials have been tested using the ASTM G65 abrasion wear test. This test can be performed on any alloy and lasts for a set number of revolutions of a rubber wheel, which forces dry sand against the test specimen. Weight is taken before and after the test to give a resulting volume loss.…
Direct part marking customization is an excellent way for many small businesses, craftsmen, and artisans to differentiate their products and create unique pieces. However, this sort of customization often involves custom tooling, and the types of manufacturers who are capable of producing custom tooling often have difficulty doing so affordably in small runs. As a…
Direct part marking customization is an excellent way for many small businesses, craftsmen, and artisans to differentiate their products and create unique pieces. However, this sort of customization often involves custom tooling, and the types of manufacturers who are capable of producing custom tooling often have difficulty doing so affordably in small runs. As a…
Checking with the gage manufacturer will help you understand what the real limits of your gages are before you go too far down this path. Maybe the gages were not designed to meet the new tolerance requirements. This could mean a new investment in gaging is required. But for some gaging, like fixed body gages,…
Portable Marking Machine Options There are a couple of portable marking machine options for applications where marking needs to be done in the field, or applications where a traditional marking machine isn’t feasible. Learn More Replacement Metal Type for Packaging Machinery From cartoners to tube fillers to hot stamp date coders, high-quality replacement for packaging…
In some plants, metal parts are made accurate to 0.01 inch. In other plants, there are products that cannot tolerate size differences of even a few millionths of an inch. Making parts to either tolerance range is impossible without accurate gaging. However, accurate gaging is impossible if liberties are taken with the design, handling, and…
If you are thinking of ways to economize these days, you may want to consider coaxing more performance out of your existing gages. Many of the gages being built today are refinements of gages built 50 plus years ago. They may have originally been designed for use with a 0.0001 inch indicator, but over the…
When digital electronic indicators were first introduced in the early 1980s, observers expected them to blow mechanical dial indicators out of the water. But despite the clear superiority of electronic indicators in terms of higher resolutions, better accuracy, and usefulness in statistical process control and data collection systems, mechanical indicators retained other advantages and continued…
COLD ROOT ROLLING is the process of burnishing the root radius of a previously cut thread, in a Rotary Shouldered Connection. CJWinter’s Cold Roll Tools are available using our (SA) Standard Attachment Series which uses our Patented EPL® Design, “Error Proof Loading’; the cold roll wheels cannot be installed incorrectly in the roll holder or…