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40 MARCH 2016
T E CHNOLOG Y
Serving the Tube Industry since 1983
ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED
Tube ID Scarfing Systems
OD Scarfing Inserts
Tube Cutoff blades
Cutting Rings
Tube ID Scarfing Systems
9,5-620mm
3/8"-24"
Impeder Ferrites & Casings
Impeders
The Tube ID Scarfing Company
Alpha Metall GmbH & Co. KG • Matthias-Erzberger-Str. 13 • 66806 Ensdorf • Germany
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Mill machinery from Rafter Equipment
RAFTER Equipment Corporation
manufactures tube mills, pipe mills, roll
forming machines, flying cutoff, and
other related mill machinery.
A large proportion of the company’s
business includes the retrofit and
replacement of common tube mill
components. These include driven
roll stands, idle side roll stands, weld
squeeze boxes and turkshead type
straighteners. Rafter Equipment
Corporation also provides weld upset
bead removal equipment such as OD
bead trimmers.
Rafter has recently introduced a
newly designed OD bead trimmer unit.
The goal of the new design is to increase
the unit’s long-term serviceability and
ease operator adjustments.
This was accomplished by enclosing
the working parts of the unit inside
the main-frame and adding covers to
both the sliding ways and the frame
assembly itself.
The tool height adjustment hand
wheel has been relocated from the
top to the bottom side of the unit,
safely away from the trimmed bead
path. This adjustment is now also
closer to the operator’s position. The
tool holder assembly includes cross-
centring adjustment from the side as
well. The tool holder assembly is easily
customisable to accept the customer’s
existing tool holders. The existing quick-
lift mechanism has been retrained
because it has proved extremely
beneficial in terms of extended trim tool
life.
Originally started in 1917 as a
roll forming machine builder, the
company was purchased, relocated
and transformed into a tube mill
manufacturer in 1988.
Since this time, Rafter Equipment has
provided nearly 100 tube mills and more
than 400 mill accessory upgrades. The
company’s focus is on providing robust
equipment that is simple to operate and
maintain.
Rafter Equipment Corporation – USA
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