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Collaborative Engineering: Partnering for Success in Custom Aluminum Tube Bending
August 15, 2023
When it comes to custom tube bending, collaboration is key. Bringing together minds with different experiences, ideas, and viewpoints can provide new perspectives to determine the best solutions. Collaboration with a partner that values and understands the importance of quality tube bending will lead to overall project success and profitability.
Design Freedom and Versatility: Expanding Possibilities with Custom Aluminum Tube Bending
August 15, 2023
Aluminum alloys are extremely common for tube bending applications. With various features and benefits for OEMs, custom aluminum tubing provides superior results for a variety of industries through innovative solutions. Aluminum expands design capabilities and allows ideas to become successful realities.
Ensuring Quality and Consistency: How Custom Aluminum Tube Bending Elevates OEM Products
August 15, 2023
Ensuring quality and consistency throughout the completion of the tube bending manufacturing process can have a significant impact on the resulting product. Choosing the appropriate metal for your project and trusting Triad with tube bending are two critical steps you can take to ensure your OEM products are crafted to perfection.
Precision Engineering: Achieving Superior Results with Custom Aluminum Tube Bending
July 18, 2023
Tube bending is often critical for OEM custom fabrication due to its versatility. The bending process can bend tubes of many different metals into various shapes and sizes to meet your custom needs. The use of dies and mandrels allows for customization and precision.
Streamlining OEM Production: Advantages of Aluminum Tube Bending for Custom Fabrication
July 18, 2023
Using custom tube bending is one way to streamlined production processes for OEM custom fabrication. Tubing is highly customizable; metal tubes can be bent into intricate shapes and designs. The tubing is bent after being heated to a specific temperature, which allows for creating complicated structures without compromising the structural integrity of the metal.
Custom Tube Threading for Industrial Applications
May 24, 2023
Accurate, effective tube threading is imperative to form secure connections between components to prevent damage to components in electrical circuits. For over 45 years, Triad has been a leading provider of straight tube threading for multiple industries. We offer tube threading for a variety of metal tubing materials, including aluminum, stainless steel and more with end configurations available. Whether you’re looking for custom tube threading capabilities or cut-to-length threaded tubing, our team of experts works to produce the quality custom fixtures and conduits required for your application.
Everything You Need to Know About Cooling Coils & Assemblies
April 28, 2023
Cooling coils and assemblies are essential components in many industrial processes, HVAC systems, and refrigeration units. These components help to regulate temperature and maintain stable operating conditions, which play a key part in the efficiency, performance, and quality of critical systems. In this blog, we’ll take a closer look at what cooling coils and assemblies are, how they’re made, and why they’re so important.
Metal Electrical Conduits vs. Electrical Raceways
January 3, 2023
Challenges of Tube Bending Custom Lighting Fixtures
December 27, 2022
Tube bending is a frequent process in lighting fixture assembly. Whether you’re looking at stainless steel or brass, you can encounter many challenges when custom bending metal. Maybe you don’t have the capacity to complete your project in-house, or you’re looking at a tight deadline or want to reduce expenses, or maybe the task just falls outside of your expertise. Whatever your situation or circumstances, we can help you solve any lighting tube bending challenges.
Challenges of Manufacturing Metal Tubular Assemblies
October 7, 2022
There are many challenges to consider when manufacturing metal tubular assemblies. That’s why you need to trust the experts in turnkey tubular manufacturing. Triad Products has 30 years of experience manufacturing all types of metal assemblies. We are qualified to complete the manufacturing assembly process for you, so they can save you time and the hassle of a complicated process.
What Should You Look For in a Tube Bending OEM Supplier?
June 6, 2022
You need to find a tube bending OEM supplier. Maybe you don’t know where to start, but you know not just any company will do. You want the right manufacturer that will meet all of your needs.
Stainless Steel Tube Bending: Process & Considerations
May 3, 2022
Stainless steel is one of the most popular materials used for custom tube bending due to its excellent strength and superior resistance to corrosion. It is the ideal choice for a variety tube and pipe components, including OEM instruments and machinery, manifolds and hydraulic fluid supply lines, cooling coils, water nozzles, and more.
What is the Difference Between Aluminum 6061 & Aluminum 6063?
February 25, 2022
Aluminum 6061 and aluminum 6063 have very similar compositions and mechanical properties. Both alloys contain a percentage of magnesium to offer increased strength, as well as a percentage of silicon to lower the temperature at which they melt. Due to their excellent formability, both 6061 & 6063 can be used to make a variety of metal extrusions, including angle, bar, and tubing.
How Triad Bends Copper Tubing
February 4, 2022
Copper, as a tubing material, offers excellent thermal and electrical conductivity, making it a preferred choice for a wide variety of applications, including residential and commercial plumping, refrigeration and supply lines, cooling components for lasers, laboratory testing equipment, and more. While copper is known for its formability, it is very difficult to bend without it kinking or collapsing. As such, in order to achieve your desired result, custom copper tube bending often requires extreme caution and access to the proper tools or machinery.
Custom Tube Bending Techniques: Rotary Draw Bending
December 2, 2021
Rotary draw tube bending is a popular and versatile method of bending metal tubes and pipes that allows varying degrees of bending while maintaining a constant centerline radius (CLR). The rotary draw pipe bending technique is slower than other methods but has significantly fewer limitations. This pipe bending technique provides the control and flexibility to bend tight or loose radiuses and creates smaller center line radius bends.
Custom Tube Bending Techniques: Ram Bending
December 1, 2020
Pipe and tube ram bending is a simple and cost-effective tube bending technique compatible with square or round tubing. While effective and efficient, this tube bending technique provides less control and has more limitations than other types of tube bending. Pipe and tube ram bending is best suited for projects that do not require a tight tolerance and have a limited number of radiuses.