I was travelling last week with my family on Florida's Central "Space Coast" near NASA, and two days of tours highlighted how vibrant engineering exploration in aeronautics and space travel are these days ... a manned mission to Mars is a daily topic of conversation there.
We have many customers in this field, including one of the two primary government contractors for implementing NASA's space travel plans in the future. These customers are advocates of our expanding equipment for end forming to make excellent connections between tubes and pipes. They have tough and exacting requirements, and successfully meet them.
The NASA folks have always liked to talk about all the great spin-off technologies (think LED's and artificial limbs) ... well, our aeronautic customers have pioneered or refined the development many tube connecting joints like v-bands and Marman clamps. Today, these are used in performance automotive and car racing as well.
Aerospace is a very tough environment, and exacting on the technologies applied. Tube expanders are very useful in creating the end forms that make extremely secure connections possible.
Do you have a tough application environment for your tube connections? Call us at 800-558-7808!
Did you know that we make "Muffler Stands"? Huth Part Number 986 safely supports components during installation. It extends to 79 inches, rotates 360 degrees and is self locking. 70 lb capacity.
