TPT July 2014

Finishing and end finishing

Photo: Esco Tool, USA (see page 84)

Virtually any tube or pipe end-finishing requirement – flaring, double flaring, beading, squaring, flanging, deburring – can be handled by a standard machine. Precision tooling enables a single finishing unit to accept 1 / 8 " light-wall tubing and heavy 8" pipe. Variations in materials formability are accommodated by adjustable production speeds. Tube or pipe ends are readily prepared for joining with other machinery, tubular sections, T-joints or valves.

These assurances may be taken for granted because they are granted – by industry professionals who believe that a workpiece may be called a tube only when it has been expertly finished. The products and services reviewed in this section of Tube & Pipe Technology are representative of that ideal.