Dec 17, 2019

Rafter Ships Custom RT-2000S Driven Reshaping Stand

2020-01-03T08:56:53-05:00December 17th, 2019|Company News, Driven Roll Stands, New Equipment, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, December 17, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a custom RT-2000S driven reshaping roll stand to a major North American tube producer. The customer approached Rafter to design and build the stand to bring all the various adjustments to the operator's side of the machine for [...]

Apr 9, 2019

Rafter Ships Heavy-Duty RT-2500 Idlers

2020-01-02T14:45:43-05:00April 9th, 2019|Company News, Idler Side Roll Stands, Tube & Pipe Mills|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, April 9, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped twelve (12) RT-2500 Heavy-Duty Idle Side Roll Stands to a North American tube producer. The idlers will replace the original sizing & reshaping units on multiple rafts supplied by the company dating back to 1997. The new design employs a [...]

Feb 1, 2019

Rafter Ships RT-2000L 2-Roll HFI Weld Box

2020-01-02T15:47:16-05:00February 1st, 2019|Company News, HFI Welding, New Equipment, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills, Weld Squeeze Box|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 1, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a RT-2000L ​2-roll HFI weld squeeze box to a North American tube producer. The weld box is a retrofit to an existing Yoder M-1-1/2 tube mill that is being converted from ERW to HFI welding. The product mix on this mill is perfect for a simple 2-roll solution.   RT-2000L HFI Weld Squeeze Box (2-Roll) [...]

Jan 22, 2019

Rafter Ships High-Speed HSS Tube Mill

2020-01-02T15:44:37-05:00January 22nd, 2019|Company News, HFI Welding, New Equipment, Tube & Pipe Mills|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, January 22, 2019 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a ​RT-3000S/3500S high-speed HSS tube mill to a major North American tube producer. The mill is capable of making 2-1/2" square x 0.250" wall HSS tube at 400 FPM and lighter gauges up to 600 FPM. The mill is rafted for quick-changeover and includes an automatic universal drive shaft handling system. The reshaping section includes heavy-duty RT-3500S driven and idle side roll stands. A double-sided tu [...]

Nov 11, 2018

Rafter RT-2500S 2-Roll HFI Weld Box Retrofit

2020-01-02T15:47:39-05:00November 11th, 2018|Company News, HFI Welding, New Equipment, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills, Weld Squeeze Box|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, November 11, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has supplied a retrofit ​RT-2500S 2-roll HFI weld squeeze box to a major North American mechanical tubing producer. A new design was required to replace an inadequate 2-roll design from another supplier while still utilizing the existing roll tooling. The weld box is sized for up to 4.500" OD x 0.160" wall HSLA tube. It is significantly more robust than the unit it replaced. Operator feedback on the new unit ha [...]

Feb 16, 2018

​Rafter Ships RT-4000S Sgl Turkshead with Motor Adjust

2020-01-02T15:49:07-05:00February 16th, 2018|Company News, New Equipment, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills, Turkshead Straightener|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 16, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped an RT-4000S single-sided turkshead straightener with 2-axis motorized adjustments to a major North American heavy-wall tube producer. The turkshead is capable of straightening up to 3.500" OD x 0.300" wall (88.9mm OD x 7.6mm wall) tubing. It includes motorized up/down and left/right adjustment so that tube straightness can be controlled from a remote downstream position using a simple joystick device. Lin [...]

Feb 5, 2018

Rafter 3-Roll HFI Weld Boxes Continue to Please

2020-01-02T15:49:25-05:00February 5th, 2018|Company News, HFI Welding, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills, Weld Squeeze Box|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, February 5, 2018 – Rafter Equipment Corporation continues to please customers with the company's robust 3-roll HFI weld squeeze boxes. The unique heavy-duty design has successfully replaced scroll-chuck and other various designs because of its ability to handle both heavier wall thickness and/or high strength, low alloy (HSLA) steels.  In this design, all operat [...]

Dec 28, 2017

​Rafter Ships RT-2500S Driven Reshaping Roll Stands

2020-01-02T15:50:14-05:00December 28th, 2017|Company News, New Equipment, Retrofit, Tube & Pipe Mills|

Strongsville, Ohio, USA, December 28, 2017 – Rafter Equipment Corporation has shipped a pair of RT-2500S Driven Reshaping Roll Stands to a major North American stainless steel tube manufacturer. The equipment was the final piece of a series of mill upgrades the customer used reconfigure an old TIG welded mill into a new HFI welded mechanical tube mill. The stands will reshape round tubing formed with a bottom-of-tube constant datum into equivalent squares & rectangles with a constant c [...]