The Fabricator - Sample Issue

Portable electric power tools

Metabo Corp. has published a newsletter that provides details about its newest portable electric power tools and technological developments.

The four-page newsletter, titled “Power Zone,” also contains the experiences of professionals using the tools in the workplace, as well as industry

trends and information on other services available to tool users. The company intends to publish the newsletter four times a year.

The first edition provides a brief company background and focuses on its 6-in. grinders, the benefits of lithium-ion technology, the company’s

award-winning D-handle rotary hammer, and two new rotary hammers that are lightest in their class. Metabo Corp. | 800-638-2264 | www.metabousa.com

Sheet metal software training

Sheet Metal Guy LLC has released its third book, SolidsWorks for the Sheet Metal Guy—Course 3: Unfolding, written by Neil Bucalo and Joe Bucalo. It explains the sheet metal unfolding process of getting the correct flat-pattern layout.

Providing step-by-step instruction in the use of the SolidWorks^®2007 sheet metal features, the book, available for a fee, explains how to set up the software. It covers creating and applying bend tables, material types, gauge tables, setting up a k-factor table, creating sheet metal parts from scratch, importing flat patterns from other CAD systems, and overriding the default bend value and bend radius.

Sheet Metal Guy LLC | www.sheetmetalguy.com

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Lifting, positioning equipment

A new brochure from Southworth Products Corp. describes its line of lifting and posioning equipment. The color literature shows

models in various product lines, such as work positioning tables, special-use lift tables, container tilters, pallet handling equipment, and portable lifts.

The brochure also contains information on custom lifts. These include coil cars, vertical reciprocating conveyors, dock lifts, roll handling tables, and container unloaders.

Southworth Products Corp. | 207-878-0700 | www.southworthproducts.com

Safety products

Galeton has published a catalog featuring more than 250 styles of gloves as well as other exclusive products to help keep workers safe, comfortable, and productive.

Among the new products offered are insulated and waterproof Rough Rider gloves to fend off cold and water, exclusive MaxSport utility gloves, and Sportster 180-degree protection glasses.