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Pacifica Tube
Benders Group, Inc.
Pacifica Tube Benders Group, Inc. in 1998 purchased the remaining machines, prints, fixtures and tooling of The DYNAFLARE Corp..
If you remember, this was the tube endfinisher that was designed by the
Convair Division of General Dynamics, in the early 70's, to meet some
stringent NASA requirements. The niche of this machine was that
material of the workpiece was trapped or coined in such a way that it
did not leave an uneven buildup of wall thickness in a flare or swage,
as with the more common rotary or cone type machines, with this type of
design, it is what interlocking dies would be to tube bending.
Dynaflare was manufactured under license by another company outside of
Convair/General Dynamics and was sold to many branches of the armed
services as well as companies such as Rockwell, Lockheed and Boeing.
After many of the
aerospace defense companies were supplied and the initial orders were met
the licensee failed to pursue the commercial market. Pacifica had been
interested in acquiring this design for many years and just recently had
the opportunity. We have in turn passed the manufacturing on to an
associate for electronic upgrades and cost reduction, but have retained
the distribution rights. Machines acquired from the licensee will be sold
as Dynaflare, new machines will be sold as DYNASWAGE. We are still piecing
together some of the Dynaflare story and would appreciate being contacted
by anyone involved in the initial design and requirements, or by anyone
who can add to our knowledge. Machine models are:
The size capabilities respectively, except that 50 goes up to 3/4 inch.
Of course, the machine will flare, double flare, bead, and double bead,
up and down swage and produce many shapes.
Please contact us for further
information or a quotation.
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