Vent Pipe for Condos, Apartments, and Hotels Everywhere you look in cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Miami, and Tampa you’ll see apartments, condos, and hotels under construction. Because each unit has a clothes dryer and bathroom fan, there’s a lot of piping required to move that exhaust out of the building. These are vented either through […]
Duct Knives for Fiberglass Liner and Elastomeric Duro Dyne SAK6 — 6″ Stainless Steel Knife with Sheath Can cut a wide variety of insulation including fiberglass, cotton, and rubber…
Standoff Regulator This 15 position indexing regulator features a triggerless 3/4″ twist locking nut that fixes the regulator in place once set. Designed for use with square rod onboth square and round externally insulated duct, it is offered in two standoff heights, 1-1/2’’ & 2’’. The Dyna-Click is engineered with a heavy duty
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Drill Screws…taking it to another level Tech 5 Pro-Point Screws, with a precision formed drill point, are designed to fasten heavy gauge metals. These screws assure accurately sized holes for maximum holding power, eliminating the need for hole preparation and frequent alignment problems encountered in parts assembly. Ideal for fastening to structural steel
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Dyn-O-Loc Condu Lock—Duct Reinforcement Tie Rods can be used to support duct sizes over 48” or smaller duct in high pressure applications. Dyn-O-Locs insert into the ends of the hollow tie rods to provide a means of attaching the conduit to the duct. • Available for use with 1/2” or 3/4’’ Conduit.• Properly installed Dyn-O-Loc
Rolled Mastic What exactly is rolled mastic…? Rolled Mastic is the equivalent of liquid duct sealant but on a roll. Sitting on a shelf it might appear as an oversized roll of the aluminum foil red letter tape—it looks like aluminum foil tape even when it’s installed. But this product is more like Duct Sealant
Automating Fabrication of Straight Duct There are two operations that even a Full Wrap Coil Line with every bell and whistle cannot complete: The Seaming of the Pittsburgh Lock and the insertion of the 8 Corners Three machines will automate the part of the job that accounts of 75% of the Duct on a typical
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Sealing Duct from the Interior and why it ensures the tightest seal… Many Sheet Metal Contractors recognize that ALL of the Duct’s Pressure is from the inside…pushing out, and that sealing the lock’s interior is not only aesthetically better but also better from an engineering perspective. Many engineers don’t want to see mastic on the
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Duct Film Wrap Dyn-O-Wrap is a self-adhesive film which can protect uninstalled duct sections from the intrusion of contaminates. While duct is handled, stored, or transported, its interior is unprotected from water, dust and debris. Dyn-O-Wrap applied over the openings will securely seal the duct and block this exposure. With adhesion strong enough to resist
Thermaflex MK-E In Miami Dade county, all Hospitals and School jobs are now requiring the M-KE Thermaflex Flex Duct. What makes this Flex Duct special? …it has qualities that allow for air to flow at high velocities and positive pressure at low levels of sound. For one, it has a CPE Core; this stands for Chlorinated
Silicone Sealant—Ideal for many applications….unless it’s to be Painted Silicone is supposed to last forever, but don’t use it on an application that will be painted. Conklin stocks in four colors. In sequence of popularity they are: Clear, Aluminum, Red (high temp, but not fire stop), and White.
HVAC Installation Tools Rectangular Duct Installation tools and materials: Why promoting efficiency matters! In markets like Miami and Fort Lauderdale, most Mechanical Contractors do not have sheet metal fab shops and thus do not build the Duct. Instead, they sub out the fabrication of HVAC Ductwork to a Duct Fabricator. When the Ductwork is
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Bull Nosing Double Wall Rectangular Duct and Covering the Raw Edge of Duct Liner on the four sides: Press On Bull Nosing Angle as a labor savings vs Making Angle in House SMACNA calls for Bullnosing over the exposed Duct Liner Edge that’s facing the airstream, near a fan or in high velocity systems. Ductmate
Volume Damper …how to identify a shop installing these in house How do you know if a shop is making and installing Dampers in the Square to Round Transitions they make…? …look for the Round Holes on the Sleeve. This means that they are installing a Volume Damper in the shop before it goes out
Duro Dyne TSP-1 Spotwelder (110 V) Duro Dyne TSP-1 Spotwelder 110 Volt, requires 25 amp fuse. Capacity of this Spotwelder is 2 Pieces of 20 ga Galvanized Duro Dyne TSP-1/TSP-2/TBW Owner’s Manual Duro Dyne’s TSP-1 Spotwelder is air cooled on a stand with 18” tongs and tips. These portable Spotwelders are ideal for shops that need
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Precharged Cylinders as an alternative to Pogo Pump System The area where a shop sprays Adhesive onto the Metal prior to applying Duct Liner is the messiest area in every Duct fab shops due to the nature of the wide Spray pattern from a Pogo style pump system, the operator adjustments to the nozzle and the
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Buying Out Hanger Strap vs. Cutting in House Shops love to use up their “drop” but rarely, if ever, is drop 10 ft long. This means shops are taking 4 x 10 or 5 x 10 prime sheets and cutting 48″ to 60″ strips off each sheet, then taking about 25 of the strips, stacking
Duct Liner Adhesive Mix your own duct liner adhesive with Gecko Glue Concentrate… Ductmate Chemical and industrial engineers have created a solution for duct liner adhesive users that will allow them to mix their own adhesive on demand, save storage space, and save money. Introducing…Gecko Glue Concentrate, Ductmate’s latest innovation in duct liner adhesives and
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Coil Lines for Rectangular Duct vs. for Precision Blanking/Processing Vicon’s “Coil Line Duct Processing System” is named specifically for what it is built for: the fabrication of 5 ft straight Duct sections In a typical commercial job, the Rectangular Duct is comprised of 75% straight duct runs with the remaining 25% being Fittings (basically anything
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Tennsmith LM1010 Mechanical Shear The set up of the LM1010 Mechanical Shears is a critical process and one which is more involved than the LM1014 model. We speak from experience in stressing the cost of Factory serviceman set up as an option worth the money. Here’s what’s included… Set-up & Training at Customer’s Facility
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Red Bud Coil Line Red Bud Industries Precision Blanking Line at Conklin Birmingham Conklin’s new Red Bud Industries Precision Blanking Line affords us speed, cut precision, stacking quality, and spin down abilities that position us to service our customers like never before. From perfectly square cut, leveled, and stacked sheets to spun down pup coils with flush
Standing S Lock What’s a contractor to do when the width of a duct is larger than 2 ft but they still want to use Slip and Drive as the Transverse connection rather than moving to Ductmate (or TDC)? After all, without having to line up 4 Corners and gasketed frames for mating, the installation
Perforated inner wall: it’s all about the noise For noise reduction applications, the interior pipe is perforated with thousands of 3/32” holes, which progressively reduce downstream noise and still protect the insulation from air stream erosion. Dual-wall, insulated Spiral Pipe can also handle significantly higher air temperatures. Round… …Rectangular Double Wall Duct can be either
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PBF-510 Pinspotter: a must for every shop making Roof Curbs Then… 18 gauge Capacity And now… 16 gauge Capacity You’ve probably looked out your hotel room window or out the window of an airplane and seen large buildings with Flat Roofs that have dozens of HVAC Units situated on top. These HVAC Units are often
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