PROJECTS WE ARE PROUD TO BE PART OF
FROM TOP SECRET GOVERMENT PROJECTS TO FAMOUS LANDMARKS - TO COMMON EVERYDAY PIPE AND FLANGE BOLTING
WE WORK ON NEW PROJECTS EVERY WEEK...
HERE ARE A FEW NOTEWORTHY PAST PROJECTS OVER THE YEARS!
BOLTING PROBLEM SOLVERS SINCE 2004!
EMPIRE STATE BUILDING : NEW YORK CITY
NIBTORQUE Was contacted by the contractors in Sept of 2020 working on the Plate heat exchangers at the base of the Empire state building.
Plate Heat Exchanger opening and closing was taking days, and very labor instensive.
Downtime was an issue, and the work was manual back breaking extremly hard work.
The number of plates was double of a normal plate heat exchanger at 550 Plates!
We provided tools that plug into electric (no air needed) to open and close the plate heat exchanger in hours (no longer days)
CUSTOMER SAVED DOWNTIME, LABOR COST & BACK BREAKING WORK!
GEORGE WASHINGTON BRIDGE : NEW YORK CITY
NIBTORQUE Was contacted by the NY Port Authority to design custom tooling to replace the bolts holding the cable clamps on the George Washington Bridge in NYC.
The old tools were stored at the world trade center building and were lost Sept 11th 2001.
NIBTORQUE Designed and manufactured custom torque tools to remove and re-torque the large bolts on the round cable clamps for the George Washington bridge.
NAVY ELECTROMAGNETIC AIRCRAFT LAUNCH SYSTEM
The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) is designed to replace the steam catapult system that launches aircraft from a aircraft carrier.In 2009 NIBTORQUE was called upon by General Atomics to provide bolt tensioners for setting exact load on a specific number of critical bolts.In 2019 (10 years later) Again NIBTORQUE's knowledge was called upon by the US Navy for the EMALS Launch system.We recommended and provided Electronic continous rotations tooling for the launch system testing.Now the Launch system is incorporated into the Gerald R. Ford Class Aircraft Carriers.
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Image Credit : Navair / Naval Air systems
HEAVY LIFT SYSTEM VEHICLE : ORION SPACECRAFT
NIBTORQUE Was contacted by the Alliant Techsystems Tactical Propulsion and Controls
We were asked to recommend how to set extremly accurate torque on the Orion Spacecraft escape Capsule.
We provided specific tooling for the customer that was not only simple to operate, it was accurate and traceable.
Image credit : U.S. Army white sands test faclity
SIX FLAGS ROLLER COASTER "EL TORO"
STEEPEST DROP WOODEN ROLLER COASTER IN THE WORLD
NIBTORQUE was contacted by Six Flags Great Adventure for a tricky bolting job on the roller coaster catch car lift in 2006
NIBTORQUE went onsite and measured in extremly tight areas where a compact torque tool would fit to tighten the bolts on the lift.NIBTORQUE recommended and provided the appropriate calibrated traceable tools multiple times
CEDAR POINT : VALRAVN ROLLER COASTER
TALLEST STEEL ROLLER COASTER IN THE WORLD
NIBTORQUE was contacted by the major contractor assembling this steel roller coaster.
NIBTORQUE recommended and provided a continious rotation tooling to set torque on every bolt on the entire roller coaster at Cedar point.We Provided Calibrated Traceable tooling that was super fast, and even decreased contruction time of the coaster.
Credit : Wikimedia Commons
NAVY SHIPYARD PHILADELPHIA : DESTROYER
NIBTORQUE was contacted on how to remove and retighten extremly large 5 3/8 hex nuts on the shaft of a Navy Destroyer.
This ship was to be sunk for an artificial reef.
When it was towed the propellor shaft was so large that it would create its own momentem if it was not stopped from turning freely.
NIBTORQUE examined the application and provided a extremly powerful tool capable of 25,000 ft lbs
ATLANTIC CITY WIND FARM
Kris the owner of NIBTORQUE was visiting a wind farm early on in his career while working for a competitor.
Kris Noticed the method of bolting together the Atlantic City Wind Farm was slow and not accurate.
With the knowledge of bolted connections, Kris provided tooling to complete the bolting job almost 10 times faster.
The contractor already had purchased tools from a competitor in New Jersey, instead the contractor let the competitors tools sit and collect dust because of the savings by using our tools. The contractor eventually purchased our brand of tooling for all new wind turbine construction at their main shop in Minneapolis.
BATMAN AND ROBIN ROLLER COASTER "THE CHILLER"
THIS STEEL ROLLER COASTER REQUIRED PLENTY OF BOLTS TO BE REMOVED IN AS NON DESTRUCTIVE MANNER AS POSSIBLE.
WE SOLD A QUAD SYSTEM AND THE CUSTOMER USED 4 TOOLS AT ONE TIME TO LOOSEN EVERY INCREDIBLY TIGHT BOLT WITH AS LITTLE DAMAGE AS POSSIBLE. BECAUSE THE ROLLER COASTER WAS TO BE REUSED AND RESOLD
(This was Before Portable Brushless Battery torque tools were invented / Hence the Young guy in the picture!
PHILADELPHIA NAVAL SHIPYARD BASIN BRIDGE
December 2004
American Bridge was renovating the Basin bridge and removing and retighing cables to balance the bridge.
This Customer Required a direct fit wrench size 5 3/4 hex to slide over cables to turn large 5 3/4 hex nuts.
We rented this specilized tool, and the labor time was reduced on the bridge project.
Actually one nut was dropped in the river and divers went and got it. As they were special orginal hex nuts.
Image Credit : American Bridge
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