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- From The Fabricator
Wipe out the wrinkles of tube bending
- By Paul McGowan
- Aug 10, 2021
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
If a fab shop is bending tube with a rotary draw machine and seeing wrinkles on the inside radius, it might need a wiper die.
Specifying tube bender tooling to prevent misalignments, improve bend quality
- By Paul McGowan
- Mar 10, 2020
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
A longstanding problem in tube bender tooling setup is tooling misalignment, which leads to scrapped tube (wasted material) and requires additional setup time to align the tooling (wasted time). Interlock tooling takes advantage of the bend die’s interlock opening, integrating the various tooling elements and keeping them aligned.
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- Podcast:
- The Fabricator Podcast
- Published:
- 05/07/2024
- Running Time:
- 67:38
Patrick Brunken, VP of Addison Machine Engineering, joins The Fabricator Podcast to talk about the tube and pipe...
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