TPT May 2015

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Improving pipe cutting and bevelling THE E-Z FAB is a new HD cutting and bevelling machine from TAG Pipe Equipment Specialists.

with a thickness of 22mm setup, cutting and bevelling takes places in six minutes and 34 seconds. Pipe is loaded into the machine and clamped in seconds via the rapid self-centring jaw system. Power is delivered from a new single-phase 1.75kW NC-controlled servo motor. The servo motor delivers excellent power and torque, even under heavy load, and enables uninterrupted cutting and bevelling at high speeds. It also features TAG’s new pro- grammable Delta touch screen control with pre-set application settings. It will also store its previous settings. The Delta NC control delivers a signal to the servo motor, according to the operator’s touchscreen instructions. The E-Z Fab can be converted into an orbital pipe saw configuration. The HD toolboxes are removed and a Metabo motor fitted to the ring. This motor houses a high-speed rotating saw blade designed for process cutting of thinner wall pipes and tubes. Rotation is performed either manually or automatically via the touch

The workshop-based semi-portable, self centring, semi-automated cutting and bevelling system offers improved pipe cutting and bevelling speed, range and capacity. Seven models enable the TAG E-Z Fab to cover a pipe range between ½" and 30". TAG’s split frame toolboxes are bolted to a rotating ring on the E-Z Fab machine. Due to the rigidity of the frame and the strength of the ring these toolboxes, which are fitted with TAG HS HD tooling, can be rotated around the contour of the pipe at high speeds (up to 35rpm) and are fed into the cut on every rotation by a striker system, feeding the tooling down a thread, via a unique gear controlled transmission slide, which regulates the tool feed as required. It is effectively a clamshell cutting and bevelling machine in a solid frame that, due to its rigidity, can cut and bevel at high speed. When cutting 6" carbon steel

The E-Z Fab

screen control to cut and bevel thin- to-medium wall (up to 12mm) carbon, stainless and other ferrous and non- ferrous pipe and tube. TAG Pipe Equipment Specialists – UK Email: sales@tag-pipe.com Website: www.tag-pipe.com

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