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Machining tube sheet grooves can be a long-reach, tight-quarters job. With the Ingersoll double grooving tool, tube sheet holes are created to ASME specs in a single step, and more than twice as fast.

A large scale machining job pushes the limits as a massive steel tube is set up and precision cut. From careful measurements to heavy equipment handling this project shows what it takes to machine ...

Temperature and pressure decide which type of tube fitting is needed. Metal fittings are used for high temperature and pressures, plastic fittings for low. Typically, metal fittings are used with ...

Industrial tool and laser maker Trumpf has launcher a new laser tube-cutting machine, the TruLaser Tube 3000 fiber. The company describes it as “a cost-effective choice even at low to medium capacity ...