Square to Round Machine—Namcor Striker HDX How do you bend metal? Larger Square to Round transitions such as this require many separate bends to produce Bending the flat piece of metal so that the square cones into a round is usually done on a 10 ft Hand Brake—that’s a lot of effort! Tennsmith Hand […]
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Pittsburgh Seam Closer—Floor Mounted Want to invest in a Machine that everyone in the Duct Shop AND the Offices will appreciate? Consider Vicon’s vertical Floor Mount Pittsburgh Seam Closer Why? Because the longitudinal seam is the longest connection in rectangular duct sections and it’s usually seamed with the Pittsburgh Lock, a Lock comprised of
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Vicon V-TDX-B 5-FT 16 Ga Duct Brake There’s a specific machine that should sit beside and work in tandem with every TDC/F Rollformer. That Machine is a Power Brake designed to bend the duct into an L section after it’s run thru the Rollformer. Bending Duct that has a TDC Flanged Profile on each side
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Tennsmith 6 ft 16 ga Mechanical Shear MSE Unless a Duct Shop is cutting up 10 ft hanger strap, chances are likely that the 10 ft cuts are rarely if ever called for. Going from Tennsmith’s 10 ft to 6 ft Shear saves a footprint of 48” x 69”. These days more than ever that’s
Why every Sheet Metal Contractor should consider a Spiral Pipe machine Spiral-Helix Tubeformer 3600 For the Mechanical Contractor, the ability to pull out the largest physical sized item from the Air Distribution package is significant. Spiral Pipe is a product in the AD package that’s loaded with uncertainty due to the freight costs on the
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Vicon Model 510 SL Liner Cutting Table Just as Plasma Tables save contractors on metal drop, Liner Cutting Tables does the exact same on Liner drop. Using the same software but with a router bit instead of a torch, these Liner Cutting systems are identical to Plasma Tables in their purpose of savings
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Vicon TDX 16 Station Rollformer Vicon TDX 16 Station Rollformer A TDF Flange is more difficult to form and requires a 16-station rollformer, whereas a TDC profile can be produced on a 12-station rollformer. This poses a question to the contractor: Which profile do you want? Since there’s no such thing as “a piece”
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Vicon TDX II 12 Station Rollformer 12 station machine rolls a TDC profile flange to the end of the duct joint from the same gauge as the duct meeting SMACNA classification for T25 rolled on transverse connector. There are two profiles of this rolled on flange – the T24a (TDC profile) which has a hem
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Liner Sizer From the LS Liner Sizer… To the LSU Liner Sizer… Several years ago Duro Dyne redesigned their popular 5 ft Manual Cut Liner Sizer as it became evident that closed cell Elastomeric Liner and other non Fiberglass products like Ductmate’s Polyarmor were materials that their LS couldn’t cut. Duro Dyne’s redesign was
Vicon Corner Machine—Dual Head TDC/TDF is rollformed on the duct wall in the fab shop; if a shop has a full wrap coil line, they are able to produce fully formed duct sections more efficiently—almost fully automated. The reason we say “almost” is because there are two major operations that even a Full Wrap Coil
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Vicon Corner Machine—Single Head Why automate the corner insertion and crimping? Secures the Corner too… Machine inserts and crimps the corner in securely, removing one last step for the duct shop. No more hammering or manually crimping with a Corner Crimp tool. Corner is cleanly crimped in place—done on a single Head Corner machine
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4 in 1 Entrance guide and Roll Profiles 4 in 1 roll sets are typically installed on the outboard of an S and Drive machine or heavier gauge Pittsburgh. they consist of three roll profiles: Right Angle Flange (2), T connection (tap in) and Standing Seam The 4 instead of 3 indicates that the machine
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While Plasma Tables greatly reduce the amount of drop in Duct Shops, Plasma Feeders reduce that even further Plasma Cutting Tables were first introduced by Lockformer in the mid 1980’s and would revolutionize the HVAC Fabrication industry by that addressing the most time consuming and labor intensive task in an HVAC sheet metal fab shop; cutting out
Pexto 381 Pexto 3 ft 22 ga Roller plays a role fabricating a Radius Elbow The 3 ft manual roller is a staple in every duct shop. One of the many functions it’s used for is turning a curve on a flat piece of metal with female Pittsburgh Seams already installed on both sides. Because
Addressing the Money Pit in HVAC Fab Shops: old Plasma Tables If HVAC contractors treated their Plasma Table like one of the Trucks in their fleet, things would be different. Both are run throughout the day every day and are integral to their business, yet contractors will often spend thousands of dollars trying to keep
Power Flanger—Snaplock On Radius Elbows, most shops will tell you that doing the Throats in Pittsburgh is no big deal because they are usually small; but, on a Radius Cheek moving from Pittsburgh to Snaplock means a huge labor savings. Yet, on low pressure duct jobs contractors will often make the Straight Duct in Buttonlock
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Cleatbender—Manual “Turning the Drive” on a manual Cleatbender: The steps required for turning the edge for a Drive Cleat The steps required for turning the edge for a Drive Cleat… What’s your shop’s record on turning drives in a single day period? A Cleatbender turns a flat edge 180 degrees to prepare it
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Combi T Gorelocker The speed to make Elbows, Offsets, Reducers, even Ends caps just improved with Spiral Helix’s Combi T machine, a faster process without having change dies for diameters but more importantly, not having to change dies from Gore Flanging to Gore Connecting.. 5″ thru 50″ diameter, 18 ga Galvanized capacity. How is
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Underfed Decoilers Uncoilers are feeders for a duct line or a plasma table. When purchased for a duct line the contractor can buy up to four decoilers, one for each gauge of metal. The underfed comes up a ramp and the pinch roll pulls it in. The downside is it costs more and it
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Stitchwelder We are big believers in that there are three machines required to “semi-automate” the Spiral Pipe portion of a Duct Shop: the Spiral Tubeformer, the Combi-T Gorelocker, and the Stitchwelder. A lot of shops hold off initially on the Stitchwelder due to it’s $75k+ price tag and instead use a Spotwelder (or free-standing Clinching
Cheekbender—Pittsburgh The Cheekbender turns a 90 Flange that serves as the Male Pitts on a Square Throats of a Rectangular Duct Elbow. Square elbows have two sides, referred to as “cheeks”. While those cheeks are still in the flat, the manual cheek bender turns a 90 degree flange
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Power Flanger—Pittsburgh A Radius Elbow consists of 2 cheeks—these are the sides of the fitting and it’s on the top part of this cheek that the Right Angle Flange is turned at a 90º angle. Both the top and bottom edge of the two cheeks (sides) of this Radius Elbow are run on a Power
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The savings of Buttonlock in place of Pittsburgh on Low Pressure Rectangular Duct Lockformer Company Brochure, August 1968 Snaplock Buttonpunch on Rectangular Duct is making a comeback! Even though Snaplock has been a SMACNA standard for the Longitudinal Seam on Low Pressure Duct since 1969, many shops left it behind in favor one method- Pittsburgh-that
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Male Pitts: the often neglected other profile in the Pittsburgh Lock The Pittsburgh Lock consists of two profiles: the Female and the Male. Yet the Pittsburgh Machines run only one of those as standard: the Female. For decades the Male Pitts has been offered as an optional set for the outboard side of a 20
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