Welding an Aluminum liner into a reactor vessel.
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Aluminum welding
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Air manifold
Monday, August 23rd, 2010A stainless steel air manifold for marine application.
Stainless water heater
Monday, May 17th, 2010This is a 24″ diameter 316L stainless steel hot water tank that just passed a hydro test. The white paint on the weld seams is developer for a dye penetrant test.
Portable machining
Friday, March 26th, 2010Using a portable facing machine to reclaim a 44″ tube sheet on an alloy 600 heat exchanger.
DNV Certification
Friday, February 26th, 2010Det Norske Veritas Certifies 1st Manufacturer on Gulf Coast USA
Mobile, AL, February 5th 2010
Pictured here:
Stephen Veal, Cherie Dickson holding Certificate, and Richard King
In front of a Hyperbaric Rescue Chamber built by Arc Controls for
Global Diving & Salvage of Seattle, WA
DNV Certified Diving Bells and related equipment for Saturation Diving are now being manufactured on the US Gulf Coast. DNV presented Arc Controls, Inc. of Mobile, Alabama with Certificate No. T-1355 For the Manufacture of Class I & II Pressure Vessels in October of 2009.
Arc Controls has completed their first DNV Certified project and is now building a 3-man Bell for Saturation Diving to a depth of 1000 ft. Arc Controls, in business since 1975, has been manufacturing ASME ‘U’ Stamped Pressure Vessels since 1992 and repairing, refitting and manufacturing Saturation Diving Chambers, Deck Chambers and Rescue Chambers to ASME PVHO and ABS Classed since 1998 as well as LARS Systems, Trunks, Med Locks, Equipment
Locks, Fast Acting Mating Clamps. Emergency Umbilical Cutting Guillotines and related equipment.
Arc Controls is the first manufacturer on the US Gulf Coast to receive this approval and certification from DNV.
HRC baloon model
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009Lee and Alan holding a baloon model of a HRC for an upcoming trade show.
Aluminum agitator
Thursday, November 19th, 2009We also fab things from aluminum. This is a 5086 Aluminum agitator made with keyed sleeves that slide over a steel shaft. Once it’s welded out, the steel never contacts the product that it mixes.
Quench separator
Monday, September 28th, 2009Quench separator after hydro test waiting to be loaded on the delivery truck. It is 35′ long and made of 304ss to ASME code.
First Post
Monday, July 20th, 2009I wanted to start out with a great photo for my first post.
This is a Vacuum Chamber fabricated from Stainless Steel and Inconel 617. Designed and built to ASME Section VIII, Div. 1.