the Safan eBrake

Sometimes someone simply comes up with a better idea !

Safan B.V. out of Holland, has designed a press brake that has no hydraulics, no messy valves, cylinders, lines, pump and tank to worry about. A brake that only runs when you need to make a bend. A machine that requires no crowning because the load is evenly balanced along the bed. It is called the eBrake. The best way to understand it, is to see it in operation. We recently did a video of a machine demo at the recent FabTech Canada 2012 show. Here is the link:  http://www.metalworkingcanada.com/video/the-safan-e-brake-at-fabtech-canada

If you wish to talk to us or  have a live demo at our facility, please call. Ask for Wayne 905-803-9999. 

 

 

 

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SOCO TB-38

One of the products that occasionally comes through our warehouse and finds itself on our customer’s floor is the SOCO double end tube bender. This is one of those machines that can improve productivity tremendously but is not usually the first machine considered by the tube fabricator when a new application is discussed.

Traditionally tube, round or square, is bent one angle at a time. With the TB-38 you can bend a tube in two places at the same time. The advantage is not just an increase in speed, but the distance between the bends can be very accurately controlled. The average time it takes to bend a tube with two bends on the TB-38 is around 5 seconds or less compared to a traditional mandrel bender that could require over a minute. Even a CNC mandrel bender that can grab the tube, bend it and then automatically position the tube for the second bend and bend it cannot beat a 5 second cycle time, not to mention that a CNC bender is 3 times the price of a TB-38.

http://www.westwaymachinery.com/product-catalog/en/pipe-and-tube-benders/620-soco-double-head-tube-bender-model-td-38.html

If you have a reasonable volume of tubes to do with double bends, i.e. table legs, trailer frames, furniture etc. the TB-38 can make you a lot of money. Call for more info..905-803-9999

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Lots Of Inventory Still – Year End

Often customers are surprised when they visit our warehouse to find such a large selection of machines on hand. Although we publish the fact that we carry between 500 and 600 machines in stock at all times and we see this inventory every day we tend to assume our customers know this as well.  So just in case you don’t, we have a lot of machines in stock and ready to ship !

If you are looking to make a year end purchase we are ready.

For example we have :
Press brakes ( 18 new , 1 used)
Shears, powered ( 17 new, 5 used )
Bandsaws ( 6 new, 1 used)
Circular Cold Saws ( 16 new, 3 used)
Apron Brakes ( 18 new )
Box and Pan Brakes ( 26 new)
Tube or Pipe Benders ( 10 new , 1 used)
Angle Rolls ( 12 new)
Geared Drills ( 10 new)
Punch Presses ( 3 new, 17 used)

Call us soon, time is running out !

 

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Year End Purchases

The 50% write-off for equipment purchases still applies till the end of this year, 2011. If you are thinking of purchasing equipment you might want to do it sooner than later and save some taxes by doing it this year. More information is available on the Federal Government’s website  http://www.budget.gc.ca/2010/home-accueil-eng.html or ask your accountant.

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new arrivals

Some nice late model pre-owned sheet metal machines arrived last week. We have the following items;

TENNSMITH52″x16ga. foot shear , SAMPSON 4’16ga. box and pan brake, SAMPSON Seamformer Pittsburgh lock machine, TENNSMITH 8’16ga. hand brake..  for more info and pictures  click 

These are very desirable machines and won’t be here very long.

Call Steve if you have an interest. ………….905-803-9999 ext 233 

 

 

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