As proud as we are of being able to ship most any catalog product, same day, from stock (99.9831% of the time for on-time shipping in 2017…22 years straight for 99.9% or better,) we take a certain amount of pride in our ability to offer custom solutions for challenging applications as well. Our Engineering and Production teams have a deep well of resources (knowledge, experience, and capability) to draw from, which allows us to meet those challenging applications head-on, in short order.
The one I’m writing about today isn’t exactly one of those challenging ones…
A machine fabricator had a special need for an Air Knife. It had to be Stainless Steel, and it had to be 30″ long. No problem so far…that’s a Model 110030SS 30″ Stainless Steel Air Knife, and it’s on the shelf. Thing is, they only needed 26″ worth of air flow; a full 30″ width was going to disturb, and maybe damage, the edges of the sheet of material that the air was being blown onto.
So we made a custom shim for the Air Knife. Now, we make these all the time, in all kinds of configurations…hence the term “custom.” Since this one was blowing onto a web where they didn’t want to disturb the material on the far edges, we made this shim to provide 26″ of flow, on center. We could just as easily made it to provide 26″ of flow starting at one end or the other, or a specified distance from one end or the other. Or 13″ of flow on both ends, with 4″ of no flow in the middle, for a total of 26″.
Regardless of how challenging (or not) your compressed air product application is, we’re here to discuss, any time you’re ready. Call us.