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Utilize Your Machining Skills

Are you tired of not feeling you are accomplishing anything?  Do you want to see your work result in a quality piece of manufacturing machinery proudly built by you in the US and sold to a global market?

• The metal chips are contained within the machine for safe and easy disposal.
• The cutting area is totally enclosed.
• Automatic shut offs prevent the machine from being operated without guards.

• You have the versatility to cut different types of bevels with the same machine.
• You have the ability to bevel large ranges of pipe sizes.
• You can expect accurate bevels every time.

• The cycle times are quick (5-20 seconds).
• The machine is easy to operate and doesn’t require skilled labor.

What are reduced collets?

Tex-Fin Inc. of Houston, TX had a problem.  They sold a large job to a South American company that required finned pipe 180 degree return bends to be beveled at a consistent and reliable angle.  This was also a large quantity job and the usual hand beveler would not keep up.  Besides the typical hand beveler is slow, low quality, somewhat hazardous for the operator, and is not reliable in terms of delivering a consistent bevel.

Manufacturing Solutions Inc. of Beaumont, TX had the solution.  Tex-Fin purchased a C5H ChamferMate® to automatically add the bevel to the 180 degree return bends.  Tommy Hall, Owner and President of Tex-Fin, says, "MSI was a great asset to us as we needed a tool to handle this large job. Their expertise and engineering know-how made it easy to deliver the quality and consistency our South American customer required, as well as meet our through put requirements."

"We have only had the C5H ChamferMate® for three months and we are still exploring ways to use this flexible tool" states Mr. Hall.  Tex-Fin is building a long rack to handle tubes up to 20 feet long that will significantly reduce the time to bevel the ends of these long tubes and pipes.  

"We have a number of large quantity long tube jobs with diameters ranging from 1.25 inch to 4 inch diameter that we can produce more efficiently using the C5H ChamferMate® than was possible before - and more profitably for us too!"

Perhaps the most exciting new use for the C5H is that Tex-Fin now has the ability to J-Bevel pipe.  Tex-fin is currently bidding on a very large job to produce tube stock for condensers. The customer requires a J Bevel on the tubing return bends so they can use their automated welding system.  "The C5H allows us to bid competitively on this type of job.  The flexible tooling we can use with the C5H is enabling us to add more variation to out tubing and compete for more orders." says Mr. Hall.

Tex-Fin is in the business of manufacturing finned pipe/tube and provides related services for the heat transfer industry. 

What is a J-Bevel?

Manufacturing Solutions, Inc can supply you with tool holders to fit your ChamferMate® machine to produce virtually any angle on the machined part. First we must understand how angles are measured.

What is a bevel? 

Manufacturing Solutions, Inc Model C3A and the older Model C3 ChamferMate machines are supplied standard with a tool holder designed to utilize a ½” square insert in either a SPG-422 or SPU-422 size.