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Old 12-18-2013, 03:18 PM   #2431 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SAM@GTM View Post
Our Mandrel Bender is up and running, but cannot bend the material we had gotten without the material breaking. So, we had to get the material heat treated before we can even bend it. That means working with yet another company that we don't have direct control over. Fortunately, we were able to get the heat treated piping in this afternoon so we can get back to bending pipes. We also discovered that we need more dies to do some of the other pipes as well.

For the cast pieces, we got samples to check and found some inaccuracies with several of them. Those have been fixed and sent back to get redone. This means that the molds had to get re-worked so that the parts will be in spec. That was a few weeks ago and things are back on track.

Sam
Nice to know there is quality control in place! Nothing worse than getting parts that don't fit! Sounds like annealing the pipes didn't slow you down too much. Looking forward to hearing the results on your next round of inspections!
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