Aztec's Repair Services: Keeping Your Bolting Tools in Prime Condition
Bolts are small but mighty components, used in everything from structures to machinery and industries ranging from industrial to oil and gas. These components must be installed correctly - and with the right tools and equipment - to ensure the safety, security, and peak operation of whatever it is they're holding together. That's why it's so important that the tools that perform bolting operations - like torque wrenches, flange spreaders, bolt tensioners, wrench pumps, and more - are kept in just as good condition as the bolts they're working to tighten.
Prevent Extended Downtime
How do you optimize your bolting process? It all begins with keeping your tools in good condition to ensure you get the most out of them. Here are three ways to do it:
Torque Tool Repair
Precision bolt tightening is very important in many industries, including oil and gas, construction, wind energy, and more. As many bolts have specifications of more than 1,000 pounds per foot of torque, specialized torque wrenches must be used to adequately tighten these components. However, over time, these torque tools need maintenance and repair to ensure they continue to work at a high level.
Torque tool repair is simply restoring a tool to its factory specifications, which takes testing, calibration, and experience. A good torque tool repair service is accredited to honor each tool brand's warranty and knows how to repair hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic tools. It can also often repair torque tools in-house, thereby minimizing downtime and ensuring workers have their tools back faster.
In addition to seeking torque tool repair when necessary, following maintenance best practices is important. See this blog for more information on torque tool maintenance.
Calibration Services
Safety. Performance. Reliability.
Whether it's an impact wrench, sling, hammer drill, band saw, or grinder, your tools must be properly calibrated to operate safely, reliably, and at peak performance. Calibration, or adjusting a known tool based on a fixed tool, is recommended at least once a year to ensure tools are working to their full potential. That's largely because the performance of tools tends to lose accuracy - at least to some extent - over time.
To properly calibrate a tool, you must first document the difference in readings between the tool in use and a standard tool. Once you know that difference, the tool can be adjusted and properly calibrated.
Mobile Services
Packing up your tools and bringing them to a shop specializing in calibration and torque tool repair is one thing. But it's a lot more convenient when the shop comes to you, especially when minimizing downtime and lost productivity. That's where mobile unit services can truly pay off. Given the importance of industrial on-site bolting, a fast, convenient fix is essential to keeping your operations moving forward.
From repairs to calibration, training to spare parts, and other expert services, Aztec helps bring the service shop to you.
Contact Aztec Today
Contact us today for more information on Aztec's services designed to help keep your bolting tools operating in peak condition. Aztec offers more than 114 combined years of industry experience in industrial bolting and tool care, from torque tool repair to calibration services to mobile unit services. Contact us today to learn more about our range of services.
