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      <title><![CDATA[Finding seemingly insignificant flaws Part II]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This article, the second of a two-part series, is adapted from Richard Fisher's paper presented at Metal Matters, March 14-16, 2007, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. &amp;copy; 2007 by the...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Finding seemingly insignificant flaws Part I]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This article, the first of a two-part series, is adapted from Richard Fisher's paper presented at Metal Matters, March 14-16, 2007, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. &Acirc;&copy; 2007 by the Fabricators &amp;...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Finding seemingly insignificant flaws]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: This article, the second of a two-part series, is adapted from Richard Fisher's paper presented at Metal Matters, March 14-16, 2007, Lake Buena Vista, Fla. &Acirc;&copy; 2007 by the Fabricators &amp;...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 23:49:36 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Inspecting and verifying fillet weld size]]></title>
      <link>http://www.thefabricator.com/article/testingmeasuring/inspecting-and-verifying-fillet-weld-size</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1When touching the face of the weld, the digital scale reveals the actual distance from the root of the weld to the face, which is the actual weld throat length.Woolf Aircraft Products Inc.,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Precision measurement 101]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Measurement tools form the basic foundation of quality at any manufacturer. In the sheet metal world, precision shops need to hold parts to tighter and tighter tolerances. That said, it's more...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Eddy current testing strategies for copper tube]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Stationary sensors (through-coil type, left) and scanning sensors (rotating type, above) differ in modes of operation and flaws they detect. Through-coil sensors are well-suited for finding small,...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Under pressure?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's one thing to manufacture a tube; it's another to test it to verify its characteristics. Regardless of the raw material or the production method used to make the tube, pressure testing can be a...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Finding poor-diffusion bonds in ferrous, nonferrous tubes]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Figure 1A common problem in laser welding is misalignment between the laser beam and the tube's seam. Two small portions of the weld seam, near the inner and outer walls, benefited from the weld heat;...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Measure it, graph it, control it]]></title>
      <link>http://www.thefabricator.com/article/testingmeasuring/measure-it-graph-it-control-it</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[You have probably heard of statistical process control (SPC), and you probably use it as a tool for quality assurance or quality control. Developed in the 1920s by physicist and mathematician Walter...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bend process monitoring&mdash;small changes lead to big results]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In many advanced fabrication shops, tube bending is a highly automated process that uses robotic and CNC bending machines to produce high volumes of complex tubes, each one formed to precise...]]></description>
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