The PURELOC® fittings featured here aren’t PIG® products, but they look interesting.

They’re said to provide LEAK-PROOF connections, so they may cut your need for some PIG® products. Ah, well—we’ll have to make up the business somewhere else.

The niftiest thing is that you can SEE THROUGH the outer components to make sure that fittings are properly in place. How cool is that? Has that been done before?

The press release says that everything’s precision-made from chemically-inert PFA to serve industries where there simply can’t be contamination: medical, pharmaceutical, laboratory, biomedical, chromatography, food and beverage, semiconductor manufacturing, and chemical. Check ‘em out.

I’ve been checking out dry ice blasting today. Cool stuff. Pun intended, but it’s true:

* Strip off anything from sludge to smoke without damaging the underlying surface
* Clean anything from a locomotive to a circuit board
* No extra residue from the material that’s blasted—it just disappears as a harmless gas
* I gather that even the dry ice itself (frozen CO2—did you know that’s what dry ice is?) is a process byproduct and therefore recycled material

What’s not to like?

Plus, the blasting is just really cool to watch.

This short video compares dry ice blasting to sandblasting and has a neato visual that shows how material is blasted off the underlying surface (looks like a little atom bomb!)

This longer video shows all the various applications, including many in industry.

P.S. In my next post, I’ll tell how New Pig partially owes its existence to sandblasting.

This article mentions an apparent advancement in crimpable couplings that help prevent leaks in hydraulic lines.An excerpt: Both [of the hoses mentioned] handle petroleum, water-based fluids and synthetic hydraulic fluids. Applications include general hydraulic systems, hydraulic tools, mobile equipment and high-pressure pneumatic systems up to 500 psi. They are ideal for equipment such as power and telephone cherry pickers, lubrication lines, blowout preventer control lines, hydraulic lifts, farm machinery and construction equipment.

When leaks do happen, that’s a job for PIG® products. But it’s always nice to be able to prevent leaks in the first place.