The future is here – the future is blue! The brand new, patent pending, low friction u-bolts Our first line of U-bolts with a rubber shroud were the ever popular 1108 series. A basic rubber sleeve and pad added to the U-bolt to act as an insulator These U-bolts are Read more…
What are Fidget Toys? Some people are fidgety, always on the move, fiddling and doing something with their hands. Fidget toys are specially designed to provide tactile sensations and an outlet for that surplus energy. Twiddling something in your hands can distract your attention away from stressful situations. They can be particularly Read more…
What’s this? Colourised fashion accessories? Well, they do look great, but no. Introducing our brand new range of Flame Retardant Anti-Vibration U-bolts These U-bolts have a D-shaped rubber sleeve which is also grooved. Designed to absorb vibration. But the rubber is a bit special: Advantages: – Reduce or eliminate noise and Read more…
Slotted Backing Plates It has been difficult not only for us to manufacture and stock backing plates for all our U-bolts, but it has also been tricky for customers to find the correct match So here is our brand new innovation, slotted backing plates 😀 The principle is fairly straightforward Read more…
Big Boys’ Meccano And Our Brilliant Young Design Engineer You may well have read recently that Graphskill have started supplying Unistrut / Oglaend style metal framing systems. These systems are metal channels which can be used with nuts, bolts, washers etc to create just about anything from shelving to pipe support Read more…
New Products: Unistrut Brackets, BZP fasteners & N-bolts We we have had a very busy week here at Graphskill. Not only has it been our busiest sales week, but we have added some exiting new ranges to our own line store Firstly, we have started extending our Metal Framing System Read more…
Frustrated with choosing the correct U-bolt? Trying to determine the correct size u-bolt for your application can be a daunting task. Part of this is to do with old pipework engineering speak. U-bolts are traditionally used to clamp pipes into place. Pipes are tubes and engineers who design pipe systems Read more…
We have recently been making some foam pipe purge dams Pipe purge dams are basically a foam pipe cleaning pig with an addition. The addtion is a metal tube (either copper or stainless steel) So, what are they for? Well they are used when welding pipes. A standard foam pig Read more…
First some common definitions of the two words in the title: Nominal: as expected or planned; normal Bore: diameter of a tube / pipe So, putting those together we would expect “Nominal Bore” to mean the expected diameter of a tube – but within the realms of pipe support systems Read more…