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Portable flange facer.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...697#post147846
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...727#post170793
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...027#post164586
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...3456#post99140
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...608#post193402
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.
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.
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.