Elliott Tool Technologies, a USA based tube tool manufacturer, presented its annual Gustav Wiedeke Award to Dunn Heat Exchangers at Heat Exchanger World Americas 2024. This award highlights the importance of customer participation in Elliott’s new product development process and encourages others to collaborate with Elliott to overcome industry challenges.
Angle and face burnishing tools are designed to better accommodate specific part geometries, enhancing efficiency, and reducing processing time. Understanding the benefits and limitations of these tools can allow you to choose the best tool for your application.
Burnishing is a highly efficient and cost-effective method for achieving fine surface finishes on ductile metals. While its versatility extends to a wide range of applications, specific part geometries and material properties can influence the effectiveness of burnishing.
When it comes to achieving a smooth surface finish, selecting the right burnishing tool is essential. Carbide Roll and Diamond burnishing tools each offer unique benefits and excel in different applications. Understanding these differences can help ensure you make the right choice and achieve the best surface finish for your project.
Surface finish significantly affects the performance, durability, and quality of manufactured parts. A smoother finish reduces friction and wear, enhancing the part's longevity. Burnishing, a process that compresses the part's surface, is a common technique to improve surface finish. However, it's effectiveness relies on the material's ductility.
While there are many variables that can impact the surface finish of a part, the 3 key variables, time, pressure, and pre-finish, all play a critical role in the ultimate outcome of the part. Changing any one of these variables could result in dramatically different results, which is why it’s important to understand what they are and how they work together to achieve the desired surface finish.
In order to increase efficiency and lower operating costs, many boiler makers are switching to X-ID enhanced tubing. While X-ID tubes are beneficial for the end user, they can be challenging to install.
Roller burnishing is a quick and effective method for achieving smooth surface finishes on metal work pieces. With a variety of burnishing tools on the market, it can be challenging to determine which will work best for a specific application.
As end users strive for increased heat transfer efficiency, customers are often tasked with building vessels that will withstand heavy use and the test of time. This often results in the use of more wear resistant tube sheet and tube materials, such as Inconel, Hastelloy, and Duplex Stainless Steel. While exotic materials often mean longer tube life, they can take a big toll on expander tool life.
From forklifts to land excavators, valves are used to regulate the flow of fluid through the machine, impacting the functionality of the machinery. For these large pieces of equipment to handle fine movements and adjustments, it’s important that the grooves and lands inside of the valve body are cut precisely.
