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products & developments
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Magnetic Centering Punch
3
Easy to read digital gage
3
Spring-loaded striking pin
3
Magnetic base
3
Removable gage with magnetic base
Center head with magnetic aluminum base can be used on the circumference of pipe or tanks. Digital gage provides
highly visible, accurate reading when establishing a centerline. Built in spring loaded hardened striking pin marks
location with the push of a button. Detachable digital gage comes with a magnetic base for additional leveling
applications. Level gage numbers are so large you might seriously consider throwing away your reading glasses!
Magnetic Base Push button release
of striking pin
Centering Punch
and carrying case
Gage with
Magnetic Base
Alignment
Indicator
Precision tubing for solar orbiter
Fine Tubes, a manufacturer and
distributor of precision tubes for critical
applications, has been selected to
supply specialist tubing for the chemical
propulsion system (CPS) of the Solar
Orbiter project.
Contracted by OHB Sweden, Fine
Tubes will manufacture over 100m of
titanium tubing Grade 2 AMS 4942 with
an outer diameter of 3.17mm and an
inner diameter of 2.66mm.
Solar Orbiter is a European Space
Agency (ESA) project that will investigate
how the Sun creates and controls the
heliosphere, its extended atmosphere.
The contract to build the satellite has
been awarded to Astrium UK, which will
lead a team of suppliers, including OHB
Sweden; NASA will provide the launcher
and contribute instruments to the
scientific payload. The scientific mission
will be co-ordinated with NASA’s Solar
Probe Plus to maximise the combined
science return.
Due for launch in 2017, Solar Orbiter will
fly to within 45 million kilometres of the
Sun, closer than Mercury, and will image
the solar poles for the first time, helping
to explain how the Sun generates its
magnetic field.
The Orbiter will experience levels of
sunlight thirteen times higher than
satellites orbiting the Earth, and will
also need to endure powerful bursts of
atomic particles from explosions in the
solar atmosphere.
Paul Mallet, aerospace business
development manager at Fine Tubes,
commented,
“The
challenging
environment in which these tubes
must operate necessitates traditional
manufacturing processes be improved
to meet the demanding technical
requirements. At Fine Tubes we are
proud of our flexibility in adapting to
new specification requirements and
of our role in enabling such exciting
projects to take place.”
Steve Ashton, product assurance
manager at OHB Sweden, added,
“Fine Tubes were selected as supplier
for the high quality seamless titanium
tubing required to fulfil the exacting
requirements of high quality and
cleanliness levels needed for the
chemical propulsion system.”
Fine Tubes manufactures both seamless
and welded tubes, in a wide range
of stainless steel, nickel, titanium and
zirconium alloys, for critical applications
in the oil and gas, nuclear and power,
aerospace, chemicals and medical
equipment industries.
The company has headquarters and
production facilities in Plymouth, UK,
and sales offices in Munich, Germany;
Orleans, France; New Delhi, India; and
Houston, USA.
Fine Tubes ltd
– UK
