Author: Gary


Even after some 37 years in the design, construction industry, from curved steel concrete formwork, to architectural woodworking, onto arched curtain wall glazing systems and finally to rolling a variety of metal sections, I take nothing for granted. From a Read more…


A state park committee in Logan, Ohio, had a vision of a monumental tube-steel, circular stair way with an intermediate platform for viewing one of their many spectacular waterfalls. They wanted to use self-weathering steel for its aesthetic and sustainable Read more…


Generated by strong spectator enthusiasm and wearing nothing but a sleeved protective garment referred to as a Xystis, the chariot racers of yesteryear rarely thought about safety, even when death loomed from fractured necks, spines and craniums, as a result Read more…


What happens when a screw bearing for a 1200-foot freighter seizes in the mid-Atlantic, somewhere between the Panama Canal and the St. Lawrence Seaway?  The ship requires a tug to a shipbuilder in Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin, that’s been in the Read more…


 Modern steel processing equipment can cut out intricate patterns in steel plate with extraordinary precision.  At times, rolled beams, for example, have patterns cut in the web.  Care has to be taken in the rolling process so as not to Read more…


What happens when over 47,000 lbs. of Type 304 stainless steel rolled angle segments are required rather quickly and the producing mills cannot provide these parts for more than 20 weeks?  Simple:  take 20ft plate x 1in. thick, saw it Read more…


During this recession, we have repeatedly heard that because of the limited amount of work available, steel fabricators, whether structural or ornamental, are bidding on work they normally would not do.  For one ornamental fabricator that meant fabricating a circular Read more…


Specialty subcontractors who curve steel often enter into a dialogue with their customers about beam bending, channel bending and tube bending.  The results of these discussions can determine which steel sections to use in a project and what the costs Read more…


The best way to determine if steel tube bending can achieve a given radius for given steel sections curved in a given orientation is probably through trial and error.  Companies that specialize in curving steel often keep records of what Read more…


Over the years, blacksmiths, engineers and fabricators have searched for innovative ways to safely secure and install a round, sheet metal stovepipe to a fire box, then continue the piping on through the roof or exterior wall of a structure Read more…

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