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Winton Machine Co.
Builders of World-Class Tube Bending/Manufacturing Equipment
300 Shawnee N. Drive, Ste. #100
Suwanee, GA 30024
Phone: 770-831-1917
Fax: 770-831-6459
Sales Contact
Bill Campbell
Email: sales@wintonmachine.com
Sales: 770-831-1917
Recent Content on The Fabricator for Winton Machine Co.
Business as usual versus a change for good
- By George Winton
- Aug 25, 2015
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Columnist George Winton discusses a way to combine two operations into one seamless process by adding a drill to a CNC tube bender.
Stationary parts don't make money
- By George Winton
- Nov 9, 2012
- Shop Management
- Article
Seeing bins of parts lying around in your shop? Maybe it’s time to get away from the large-batch method and try one-piece flow. Rather than make a large quantity of Component 1, then Component 2, then Component 3, while a welder downstream waits for Component 3, you could set up a system of one-piece flow that sends a kit of three components. The key to implement this strategy is the bender software.
Assessing the arc
- By George Winton
- Dec 9, 2011
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Large-radius bends are used in many places, such as appliance handles and automobile components. For measuring large-radius bends, fabricators have at least three options: go/no-go fixtures, entering the bent part’s measurements into a CAD program and using it to calculate the radius, and a depth gauge.
Fabricating antenna components
- By Eric Lundin
- Sep 9, 2011
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Mobile phone systems are mainly electronic, but a fabricated tube plays a critical role—known as a waveguide, this rectangular tube connects the transmitter to the antenna. Precise bending and forming are critical to manufacturing a waveguide that provides a strong, clear signal.
Get the slug out
- By George Winton
- Jan 31, 2011
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Punching a hole in a tube is one thing; getting the slug out is something else altogether. Even if most of the slugs exit without a problem, the occasional hanging slug can cause a serious problem. Two methods are mechanical force and air pressure.
Sizing up the job
- By George Winton
- Nov 1, 2010
- Shop Management
- Article
Accounting is straightforward, but it’s not iron-clad; fabricators have latitude in the accounting system they use to bid on contracts. A bottom-up approach, one that analyzes all the costs that go into making a component, is suitable for many parts. A top-down approach looks at the part and asks how much the market will bear. Choosing one or the other is a matter of understanding the market for the part.
The axis of safety
- By George Winton
- Sep 16, 2010
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
A tube bender can be considered a collection of power presses and, as such, it needs more than just a few conventional barriers between the operator and the machine. Safety mats, interlocked switches, emergency-stop switches, and interlocked side plates are a few of the safety devices available to machine tool manufacturers.
Feeding the process
- By George Winton
- Jul 9, 2010
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Whether a bending process starts with a cut length of tubular product or a coil, gravitational or torsional forces can lead to unwanted variations in the finished product. In the case of gravity, tube supports can counteract it; for torsion, it’s a matter of matching the coil’s output to the bender’s input.
Serpentine benders eliminate need to rotate material between bends
- May 10, 2010
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
Winton Machine has introduced SB series CNC serpentine tube benders for production use. They perform serpentine bending without the need to rotate the material between bends (R axis plane rotation). The user programs the bend angles, centerline radius, and straight lengths, and serpentine bending...
Doing more with less
- By George Winton
- Apr 29, 2010
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Loading and unloading tube for fabricating often is a manual process. Because labor rates in the U.S. are higher than those in many other countries, manual loading and unloading isn’t competitive. Using an automatic loader/unloader can change that, moving an operation from red to black.
Making a workhorse run
- By George Winton
- Feb 9, 2010
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Vertical compression tube benders have been around for more than 50 years (see Figure 1). Historically associated with high-volume bending, these benders continue to play a role in production environments where parts have just one or two bends. Also known as press benders, they have stood the...
Shaping profits with a mandrel extractor
- Sep 1, 2009
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Using a mandrel is helpful for maintaining a tubes profile when bending. Without a mandrel, bending forces tend to distort and flatten tubular workpieces.
The ins and outs of extrusion bending
- By George Winton
- Dec 12, 2008
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Extrusions can be tricky to bend and handle. Paying close attention tobender selection, die design, programming, and material handling can help to ensure efficient and productive bending.
Serpentine bending in production
- By George Winton
- Nov 25, 2008
- Tube and Pipe Fabrication
- Article
Bending serpentine profiles—successive 180-degree bends, which typically are used in refrigeration systems—can be a challenge. By their nature, they tend to cause interference among the various bend dies, and they can be difficult to handle. Good planning in selecting a bender, planning the process, and paying close attention to infeed and outfeed options, can help make a serpentine project successful.
Bending machine allows STEP file import
- Oct 14, 2008
- Bending and Forming
- Product Release
Winton Machine's RD30eCNC is a three-axis CNC rotary draw bender. This PLC-driven machine offers an optional PC interface that enables the user to import a STEP file from CAD directly to the bender without typing in a single data point. This helps save time and reduce programming errors, the...
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