Portable flange facer - GIF

[Altair]

Portable flange facer.




Previously:

Pipe flange spreading tool - GIF
Chain-driven flange stamper - GIF
Forging a giant flange - GIF
Forging a large flange in China - video
Pipe flange follow rest - video

[nova_robotics]

Super awesome device. These are crazy useful on plants and in the field. A pipe spool gets dinged up? No problem. Just reface it instead of removing the whole spool and sending it out to have it machined.

[NeiljohnUK]

We have similar hand-held machines for facing stainless steel tubing in preparation for welding, the original Swagelok corded one's are a PITA to use in-situ, so we use another brand of cordless machines https://www.orbitalum.us/RPG-1-Tube-Facers/ for most jobs.

[Toolmaker51]

There are few machining processes that portable machines can't perform. The only limit is size.
Portable lathes, journal squirrels, milling, keyseaters, broaching, pipe chamfering, hot tapping, line boring...
I don't think certain industries could exist or reinstate services without them; especially marine and petroleum.