Monday, January 20, 2020
As anyone who has purchased tools can tell you, tungsten carbide is an expensive material. Tungsten carbide has a hardness near that of diamond with durability and malleability of steels. Not only is tungsten carbide an excellent...
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We have the equipment and tools to complete industrial repairs in the Medical, Construction, Power Generation, Marine, and Packaging industries. We serve several more industries as well if you need repairs done. Why...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Reverse engineering is a process that involves taking an existing part and figuring out exactly how it was made for the purpose of either duplicating it or finding ways in which to make it better. There are many advantages to using reverse engineering when producing...
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Thursday, September 27, 2018
In early 2015, we wrote a small blog piece on the impacts the Texas machining business was experiencing due to plummeting oil prices. Subsequently there were thousands of oil workers laid off and many industries took hits with some of them even going out of...
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Friday, June 29, 2018
Last week we were notified by a customer in Missouri that a large parison rod that is part of a blow molding machine snapped/broke during production. This caused a major problem for our customer as it completely stopped production for this product. The size of...
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Saturday, May 26, 2018
Last week a customer had an emergency and needed a 32" sheave repaired which they use in brick manufacturing. The customer was replacing bearings in the sheave when they noticed it was cracked inside and out. As a result of this the plant had to...
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Do you want to prevent a stainless steel product from rusting in the future? One of the most effective ways to do it is by using a process called passivation. Stainless steel is actually corrosion-resistant, but over time, certain ...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017
Do you want to make the surface of a metal component harder or increase its temperature resistance? If so, one of the best ways to do it is through the process of heat treating. Heat ...
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Thursday, November 03, 2016
Your business depends on critical machines and equipment operating smoothly and efficiently. Breakdowns not only mean repair costs, but also expensive downtime. In many industries, like oil and gas, equipment may be designed with non-standard special fasteners....
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015
When you own a business, you want to make sure you do what you can to have everything go right the first time, regardless of the situation. So if you have a machine and one of the components breaks, you would do what you can...
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