The Sureflow Blog
The Importance of Fitting In – Custom Fabrication to Customer Specifications
Sure Flow Equipment has a 100,000 square foot warehouse where we stock a huge variety of industrial valves and strainers, in a variety of sizes and materials. With these products customers are usually looking for a fairly standard unit to be installed in a standard...
Built for the Toughest of Conditions
Sure Flow Equipment is proud to have our products operate in the toughest of conditions. Some of these are brutal based on the products we are working with - temperature extremes or corrosive fluids that our strainers and valves are working with in the industrial...
So Why Is That Strainer So Red?
We’ve all come to associate red with danger… STOP signs, stop lights, fire trucks. The reason that red was chosen for things like stop lights is because it has one of the longest wavelengths in the visible spectrum of light. This means that if you’re approaching an...
Line Blinds: Spectacle Blinds, Paddle Blinds and Paddle Spacers
Sometimes events defy logic, and you just have to go with the flow. We noticed recently that our video of a spectacle blind was hugely popular on our YouTube Video Channel. It’s a cool video, but apparently more interesting than even we realised. Sure Flow Equipment...
Good Things DO Come in Big Packages
Sometimes it must be like Christmas morning when a Sure Flow Equipment strainer arrives! Not that we’re prone to hyperbole or anything, but we believe this proves that good things DO come in big packages. Case in point was one of our custom fabricated dual basket...
Integration of Different Valve Types
One of our latest fabricated dual basket strainers to feature has a somewhat unique configuration with the isolation valves. The unit is a DB150 3-inch carbon steel dual basket strainer. It features carbon steel construction. This unit has butterfly valves with levers...
Way More Than a Thousand Words
We’re very excited to introduce our new plant tour overview video which we’ve recently posted on the website. We've placed the link at the bottom of the blog. The motivation for it came partially from one of our suppliers, Thomasnet. We have a 30+ year relationship...
The Hidden Life of a Custom Fabricated Pressure Vessel – Part Two – Photo Essay of a Fabricated 16 Inch BWH600 Basket Strainer
Our previous blog described the complete process of custom fabricating a pressure vessel. Now we’ll walk a unit through this amazing transformation. This sample is a 16 Inch BWH600 fabricated basket strainer utilizing carbon steel construction. It includes a 16 Inch...
The Hidden Life of a Custom Fabricated Pressure Vessel – Part One
The path that a custom fabricated pressure vessel takes as it works its way from concept to shipping at Sure Flow Equipment is a marvelous, intricate journey, with lots of steps along the way. While many of our customers have been working with our team for more than a...
Slow and Steady – the Goal is in Sight
Most of us can’t remember a year like the one we’ve had. Over our lives we’ve been blessed to live through relatively peaceful times, with economic growth and great choice and mobility in how we spend our spare time. CoVid has turned most of our worlds upside down and...