What Does Crowning Mean in Metal Fabrication?

In metal fabrication, precision is everything. Whether forming sheet metal on a press brake, rolling plate into a cylinder, or bending beams and structural sections, fabricators constantly battle the physical realities of material strength, machine rigidity, and geometry. One of the most common and challenging phenomena that occurs during these operations is deflection—the natural bending or sagging of machines and tools under load.

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Machines for Bending Metal from RMT

Nestled near the base of the Rocky Mountains in Northern Utah sits Revolution Machine Tools, a national provider of many hundreds of different models of metalworking machines across the entire spectrum of fabrication. If your shop must cut metal, bevel metal, press metal, or punch metal, RMT will find the perfect machine to fulfill your needs.

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CNC Tube and Pipe Benders from RMT

Taking Your Tube ’Round the Bend Pipes have been around for a long time. Egyptians were using copper pipes 5,000 years ago. Working with pipes has always been a straightforward affair—literally. Pipes, tubing, and conduits run in straight lines and traditionally have been rerouted by connecting lengths of them with fittings of some sort, such […]

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