Sharpe Products Explains Differences of 4 Types of Tube Bending Processes
Learn about the differences of rotary draw bending, compression bending, tube rolling, and 3D (freeform) tube bending by watching the latest episode of TPJ T.V. from the Sharpe Products facilities. Watch TPJ T.V. now!
To learn more about our tube bending capabilities, visit our website at www.sharpeproducts.com/capabilities_services.html
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The Sharpe Team just finished a custom bent and fabricated trade show display meant to hold motors. The display was bent out of 3″ O.D. aluminum tubing (base arms) and also 1-1/2″ O.D. aluminum tubing (top of display for signage). All the shaped base and arm plates are 3/8″ thick aluminum. The complete display was then polished with a #4 satin finish. Our customer then put a diamond plate finish on the top of the plates.
The taller back arms of this display were bent out of 1-1/2" O.D. aluminum tubing. The main arms that hold the aluminum plates were bent out of 3" O.D. aluminum tubing.
All aluminum plates and bent aluminum tubing were also fabricated together in Sharpe Products facilities.
Close up of the 3/8" thick aluminum plates that were fabricated to the bent tubing.
Customer then put a diamond plate type finish on the plates and installed their clients signage to complete the final look
Finished bent and fabricated product in use at the EASA Trade Show.
The Nissin tube bender is ideal for complex parts for production of prototypes, high volume production, and ornamental applications.
Read about Sharpe Products Nissin 3D tube bender in the November 2010 issue of The Fabricator to see the extraordinary advantages that this tube bender has over conventional bending machines. By adding the Nissin tube bender to our capabilities, Sharpe can offer unique tube bending, and pipe bending services that most contract manufacturer/job shops can not.
And don’t forget to watch the video of our Nissin tube bender in action!
Here are some great artistic and creative applications that Sharpe Products customers use our stock steel and stainless steel hollow balls (spheres), hemispheres, and pipe caps for! If you have picutres of your projects and would like to share them with us, please email pictures and a brief description of your project to: hschultz@sharpeproducts.com. We’d love to hear from you!
This grandfather clock by Infinity Art Furnishings is over 6ft. tall! Stock stainless steel balls are used as an ornamental application and a hemisphere is used for the base of the clock. Click on image for more from Infinity Art Furnishings!
The "Times Square" table by Infinity Art Furnishings uses stainless steel balls that were from our stock inventory. Click on image to see more from Infinity Art Furnishings!
Michael HIggins from Creative Design in Metal uses Sharpe's hollow steel balls along with rectangle and round tubing to make his sculptures.
"The Red Blade" by Michael Higgins from Creative Design in Metal also uses hollow steel balls provided by Sharpe Products.
Mike Anderson uses our steel pipe caps in his art pieces called "Frogz". He also uses the pipe caps in other yard art that he produces.
Read more about the purchase of Sharpe Products’ Unison 130mm tube bending machine. “Tube bending experts…“
The Nissin tube bender is ideal for complex parts for production of prototypes, high volume production, and ornamental applications. Watch the video!
The Nissin 3D tube bender offers extraordinary advantages over conventional tube bending machines. With the Nissin a tube is continuously guided through a single die according to the programmed specifications. This single die technology offers flexibility in part design which is unmatched by other forms of bending.
Advantages using this bender over conventional tube benders include:
Sharpe Products Unison CNC 130mm all-electric tube bender can bend pipe or tube up to 5″ O.D. With its unique capabilities such as high accuracy and repeatability high quality bent tube products are produced. This machine includes multi-radius stacking and rolling, and hole punching capabilities. reduced set-up times, and reduced scrap resulting in cost-effective products for our customers.
In this video you can see the stacking capability being utilized for this part. It is a complex bend using 3″ O.D. stainless steel tubing being bent on a 3″ center line radius.
