Boiler Tube Alignment Clamp Ensures Proper Gap for Accurate Welding

The HOG TIE® Boiler Tube Weld Alignment Clamp Kit from Esco Tool Company (Holliston, MA) includes everything necessary to achieve accurate horizontal and vertical gap spacing to assure the proper gap for producing high-integrity boiler tube joint welds. Providing a fast and easy way to speed waterwall boiler tube fit-up and reduce tube joint failures caused by misalignment, this tube alignment clamp is offered with a safety lanyard to prevent dropping. Simple to use, one side of the HOG TIE alignment clamp has two through-holes and the other has threaded inserts which accept two bolts that draw them together, exposing the tube ends for tack welding before removal to finish the weld. Kits come in seven sizes for 1.75 in to 3.25 in OD tubes and include an impact wrench and socket, four 0.5 in bolts, two spare through-hole inserts and two threaded inserts, and a metal case. This kit sells for $795 and can be rented from $77 per week, with 24-hr shipment available.

Esco Tool Company is a unit of Esco Technologies, Inc, 75 October Hill Road, Holliston, MA 01746, 800-343-6926, Fax: 508-429-2811, matt@escotool.com, www.escotool.com.