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Balancing High Strength Tubing Selection and Cost in Hydraulic System Design
The automotive industry has fueled many advances in high strength steel materials as we know them today. Vehicle body panels and structural components have benefited significantly from decades of development targeted at improving...
Manufacturing & Material Options to Know When Specifying Stainless Steel Tubing
Understanding the process of how your material is made is important when specifying for a new requirement. When welding a tube to size, most stainless tube manufacturing mills solely form the tube and weld it and perform little or no...
Corrosion Prevention: Choosing Materials Used in Brackish Environments
When specifying tubing for equipment used in power plant condensers, heat exchangers and desalination plants, finding a material that can safely and efficiently handle a variety of chemical environments is key....
SHOOT FOR SAVINGS: Single-Supplier Sourcing for Firearms
The firearm industry has come a long way since its inception in the 14th century, from using materials like bamboo and burning wick to sophisticated metal alloys and modern technology. As the technology has evolved, so has the...
Performance Racing Industry’s Preferred Tubing
4130 Cold Drawn Seamless Tubing For over 50 years, 4130 cold drawn seamless tubing has been used as the preferred steel tubing for the performance racing industry. It is most commonly used in the construction of chassis, frames, and...
Power Plant Layup Best Practices
In the power industry, every minute is crucial. That’s why there are few things more devastating than returning from a maintenance outage and learning that an on-time startup will be delayed due to condenser or key BOP exchanger leaks....
Plymouth Tube’s Dry Lubricant Tube Coating
WHAT IS DRY LUBRICANT? Plymouth Tube Company’s dry lubricant tube coating, also known as C-Lube 10, is a sodium stearate (C18H35NaO2) soap that results in a dry, white lubricant that can be used to coat certain tubing materials. Sodium...
An Engineer’s Guide For Selecting The Right Steel Tubing
Engineers have many choices when selecting tubing materials for the application at hand, whether it be a condenser or feedwater heater in a plant, or exhaust tube in an automobile. The wide variety of stainless steel choices available...