While working in the shop we are constantly listening to our clients and always making moves to fill the niches that they look for. There are processes and fabrication techniques that we do that we don’t readily advertise, but it’s usually because we haven’t mastered it yet or don’t have all the necessary tooling in place to be as efficient/cost effective as we should be. So after a few successful projects we will then officially offer the service on the site. In this case we are now ready to offer tube/pipe bending and in a few weeks powder coating services.
The tube/pipe bending has a slight learning curve so we wanted to ensure that what we design in CAD could be accurately produced, this took a bit of time and the quality showed on the roof rack project. On that particular project the tolerances from bend-to-bend is within ±0.063″ and from bend-to-edge is within ±0.015″. These types of tolerances are tighter than most so this is the reason why
One service we have not had the chance to work with is powder coating. However due to the demand for this from our industrial and automotive clients we have decided to bring this service in house. This will reduces the ultimate cost to the customer as well as lead time. In the coming weeks we plan on setting up and carrying a variety of durable UV stable high salt spray resistance powder, different color wrinkle powder and vein powder along with a variety of RAL colors.
Keep tabs on the Mint Design blog for more photos of future projects that will be powdercoated in house or tubing structures being formed. In the meantime take a look at our two new service pages; Powder Coating and Tube and Pipe Bending.
