FLEXIBLE, YET ACCURATE, DIAMETER MEASURING GAUGE

With a Head Office and modern manufacturing plant based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, X:CEL Superturn (GB) Ltd specialise in the production of high-quality precision machined components and specialised joints and gaskets. Although serving customers in the challenging power generation, aerospace and construction sectors, the company’s output is predominantly destined for the demanding global petrochemical industry.  X:CEL Superturn has earned a reputation for producing high-quality components for down hole drilling and both surface, and subsea applications, and now supplies several of the world’s leading Oil and Gas OEMs. After purchasing X:CEL (GB) Ltd in 2007, Sheffield Superturn (est. 1983 by present MD Andrew Taylor) continued to establish its strong global supply chain and in July 2009 X:CEL Superturn opened a sales office together with a large stocking warehouse facility in Houston, Texas.

Wayne Adcock, X:CEL Superturn’s Quality Manager recently reported, “As failure in the field, of any of our joint and gaskets could have catastrophic financial and environmental implications, we undertake the most rigorous quality control checks, both throughout the manufacturing cycle of our components and at the final inspection stage. To help enable X:CEL Superturn to uphold our hard-earned reputation for the high-quality of our output, we frequently invest in the best possible quality control equipment. Having recently identified a need for a flexible, yet accurate, diameter measuring gauge that could be used on components located on our machine tools, we searched the web for such a gauge. Having dismissed the offering from several other leading measuring instrument suppliers, we requested a demonstration of the Gagemaker Groove Diameter and Groove Width gauges from Bowers Metrology.”

As the UK agent for the world’s most popular range of Oil and Gas industry-related measuring instruments, Bowers Metrology stocks a wide range of Gagemaker equipment. Gagemaker’s Groove Diameter/Width gauges are able to accommodate diameters from 2.6" - 13" and groove widths from .34" - 1.5". Optional rails extend the range of diameters able to be measured from 13" - 36". The face groove gauges accurately measure the ring groove diameter and width at the critical sealing point of the face groove, whilst the gauge indicators display actual deviation from a preset master dimension. The Gagemaker BX-1000 can be used for a range of applications, including the measurement of straight or tapered groove diameters, shallow bores, and hole locations.

Now in regular use, X:CEL Superturn’s large diameter gauges are helping to maintain the high quality standards of the company’s rings, gaskets and seals. Wayne Adcock continued. “As our new Gagemaker instrument is proving extremely accurate and easy to use, it has taken away a potential bottleneck from our large capacity CMM, and is being used both in-process, with the measured component still located in the machine tool, and for final component inspection. So delighted have we been with the Gagemaker instrument, we will soon be purchasing further units.”

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Published on January 29, 2010 13:59 updated on September 30, 2010 13:53