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veil and Co. Ltd.. of Sheffield, extended its range of mechally attached finned tubes to ude Howco-Crimp-Fin. As name implies, it comprises helically wound continuous crimped around a base tube. vco-Crimp-Fin is available base tube sizes from lin. up to 2iin. o.d. in a wide ge of fin heights, thicknesses pitches.
fo date, the bulk of Howco np-Fin produced has coned of a copper fin crimped ind a mild steel base tube, Howell is now able to offer product in a wide range of :erials, including base tubes in )on, alloy and austenitic stain less steel, copper and aluminium, and fins in aluminium, copper and steel.
The principal advantages of Howco-Crimp-Fin are its low cost, compared with most other types of mechanically attached finned tube, and its higher fin height and greater surface extensions.
Howco-Crimp-Fin, having copper fins and copper base tube is available with the fin continuously soldered to the base tube to ensure good heat-transfer properties and mechanical strength.
The tubing is suitable for use in a wide range of applications including compressor cooling, oil cooling on diesel engines, in refrigeration plant and as finned heating elements. In the latter case, the crimped fin is appliedi to the prepared heating element instead of a plain tube.
Made by: Howell and Co. Ltd., P.O. Box 100, Wincobank, Sheffield 9.