An industrial fabricator manufactured a stainless steel auger 100ft. long by cladding a 24in carbon pipe with four different stainless steel curved shapes. 12 ga. x 1-3/4in stainless cones, with a major radius on 12in, a minor radius of 11-1/2in, Read more…
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Those working with steel often have requirments for custom parts that require multiple bends. Sometimes multiple machines are required to perform such a task. Using an experienced roller/bender with an extensive collection of rolling and bending machines can ensure accuracy Read more…
When materials are rather expensive, like stainless steel rectangular tubes, it is often beneficial to the customer to try to utilize each length most efficiently. It is well known throughout the industry that the roller bending process requires extra length Read more…
Roller/benders in the steel industry (those who specialize in curving steel) often work with miscellaneous and ornamental fabricators providing them with helical stair stringers to create circular stairs. Most often these circular staircases are rather large, suitable for a ballroom Read more…
When a steel part is specified to be bent to a short radius, it is important to know how to mandrel bend pipe and other sections. A short radius is usually somewhere below 6-7 x the diameter or depth of Read more…
It is not hard to over-engineer steel section bending, but when the costs exceed the benefits, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. For example, when designing a simple, industrial push cart, a customer requested 2in schedule 40 Read more…
Steel plate rolling is often required in the nuclear industry, for example, to enclose a spent nuclear reactor. In one instance, 2in thick steel A36 plate 58-1/2in long was rolled into full cylinders with a 128in outside diameter. The plates Read more…
Can’t bend a tube? Bend two channels—one flanges in, one flanges out—and then weld them together to create a curved tube. No channels in the desired size? Form two steel plates into channels, bend them and then weld them together. Read more…
Some companies that specialize in rolling and bending metal for construction and/or for component parts for equipment strive for continual improvement in the curving process to yield improved curved metal products. These cutting-edge companies build on decades of experience that Read more…
