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Rick Costello
Say 'no!' to burrs, dimples
- By Rick Costello
- Jul 11, 2002
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
As tube mill speeds increase, tube end cut quality suffers. Meanwhile, customer requirements for end cut quality continually increase. Tube producers are turning to dedimpling and deburring machines to enhance tube cut quality and improve worker safety.
Accumulating strip before the mill
- By Rick Costello
- Sep 4, 2001
- Tube and Pipe Production
- Article
Figure 1:Strip can be stored in a deep pit, where it will hang in a loop.In simple terms, a strip processing line consists of a device to hold a supply coil of strip and a device to perform an operation to convert the flat coiled strip into a product. In tube mill operations, a supply coil is...
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Seth Feldman of Iowa-based Wertzbaugher Services joins The Fabricator Podcast to offer his take as a Gen Zer...
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