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Applied Bolting QA Lab Ten Years Accredited to ISO/IEC 17025

"One of the best Quality Systems I've ever seen." - ISO/IEC auditor

The Applied Bolting QA Lab has completed its tenth year as an ISO/IEC 17025 accredited Materials Testing Laboratory! The lab has recently achieved its sixth consecutive accreditation to this rigorous standard and also has qualified for Supplier Merit Program status. The fact that the lab has consistently been accredited with few non-conformances is a testimony to the competence of its staff and the integrity of its structure. This ensures that you can depend upon the excellence of the products and services you receive from Applied Bolting Technology Products.

Our quality meets the highest standards and stands up to the toughest scrutiny.

Learn more about our Quality Assurance

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How well do Squirter® DTIs work?
In 2008 the University of Toronto, at the request of Applied Bolting, subjected Squirter® DTI's to independent testing with the objective of determining just how accurately they work. Using outside disinterested workers, who were asked to follow Applied's calibration instructions and then to tighten bolts blind using just Squirter® DTIs, and then by checking actual bolt tensions using ultrasonic measurement, they found that Squirter® DTIs gave them almost exactly the tension they were aiming for.

Here's the University of Toronto report in summary form as delivered to the Research Council on Structural Connections (RCSC) June 2008 meeting:

Download Report in PowerPoint (2.5 MB pps) format

What the pros say about our products: Squirter® DTIs

Observation from Tom Picaso of Edison Mission Energy, Irvine California, who has built and now maintains 200 generators, at the June 2008 AWEA Trade Show in Houston, where 350 wind power exhibitors were present:

"...Your Squirter ® DTI is only the third product I've seen at this trade show that can really help contractors in this business ..."

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"I've specified standard DTI's for years, but found that our contractors sometimes didn't check with a feeler gage as diligently as they should. With Squirter® DTIs, they can see if they have tightened it enough, and they don't miss any. And, Squirter® DTIs are a big help with the ICC Special Inspectors too, because they can see the squirt has happened even though they might not have been right there at the time."

Gary E. Mansell, P.E.
Associate Technical Fellow
BCA (Boeing Commercial Airplane) Tool Engineering, Renton Washington

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"Applied Bolting's Squirter® DTI's are manufactured and certified to steel chemistry, dimensions, and bump compression performance requirements of ASTM F959. The self-indicating silicone feature of Applied's Squirter® DTI's has been added to the generic F959 DTI for the potential constructability benefit of the steel bolting crew and inspectors. Literally dozens of Bechtel Power, OG&C, and M&M projects have utilized Applied Bolting's Squirter® DTI's with success."

Dr. Peter J. Carrato, PE, SE, CEng
Principal Engineer and Fellow Bechtel Corporation

Read more Squirter® DTI testimonials. Most Bechtel 2008 Highlight Projects Use Squirter® DTIs
Squirter® DTIs: Technology For a Modern World
The times they are a-changin” — Bob Dylan. There was a day when, if you wanted a steel erector to “snug” a connection, mark it, then hold the bolt head and rotate the nut either 1/3rd, ½, or 2/3rd turn, it would happen. Today, it probably won’t... Read Full Article (pdf)

View All Articles Bolting Contructability: in 3D3D
3D Interactive Bolting Technology: helping to prevent global warming, solve world hunger, bring our troops home, and all the while making for Better Constructability.
Read the "Boltzitzer" Prize* nominated article:

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"Emailing Interactive 3-D Bolting Pictures Makes for Better Constructability"

View All Articles North American Steel Construction Conference (NASCC)
The Steel Conference
Hosted by American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
Nashville, TN
April 2 - 5, 2008

Please stop by and drive a Squirter® at booth #1015

www.aisc.org/nascc/

WindPower 2008
Conference and Exhibition
Hosted by American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)
Houston, TX
June 1 - 4, 2008

After seeing our ads run for almost a year, come drive a Squirter® DTI at our booth #3156.

Also, try our Torque to Tension Demo in a calibrated Skidmore-Wilhelm. Apply the prescribed torque value to an M36 jobsite bolt and guess what the bolt tension will be...

www.windpowerexpo.org

24th Annual Ironworkers Instructor Training Program
Hosted by the National Apprenticeship and Training Program
& International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental, and Reinforcing Ironworkers
a.k.a. Ironworkers
University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
July 14 - 18, 2008

www.ironworkers.org/events

November 2007 Squirter® DTI's Specified for Dubai's new Jebel Ali airport project.

The steel frames for Dubai's existing airport terminal stuctures, Terminal One, then Terminal Two, have used Squirter® DTI's. In 2005 Cleveland Bridge Middle East proposed Squirter® DTI's for the first parts of the Dubai International Airport structures, some 29,000 tonnes of steelwork. The consultant, DAR of Cairo asked CBME to test the Squirter® DTIs extensively to be sure the silicone squirt could be a reliable indicator of bolt tension. CBME then went on to use them and throughout the project, now with Terminal Three about 42,000 tonnes. Squirter® DTIs gave the owners visual assurance the connections were done right, and the Squirt feature helped avoid overtensioning the A490 bolts.

Now the next Dubai airport is beginning construction, and Squirter® DTI's are to be used again.

May 2007 Applied Bolting Celebrates Opening of their new Squirter® Room

The twenty employees of Applied Bolting took a break for lunch, and then toasts with champagne, to celebrate the official opening of their new Squirter® DTI production room. After five years in much smaller accommodations, the added 3000 square feet of space will make the operation of the three silicone deposition robots and the associated curing equipment much more economical and worker-friendly. Australian Steel Institute Lectures

The Australian Steel Institute, who are convinced that Squirter® DTI's make steel construction more economical, have arranged a series of lectures around various cities in Australia to promote fully tensioned bolts, using Squirter® DTI's. Applied's Christofer Curven is one of two featured speakers. More information and Schedule | Australian Steel Institute Website

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They Said it Couldn't Be Done...

They said it couldn't be done - to stamp a 5/16" thick 16 bump Squirter® to fit an M64 (2 1/2"+) diameter bolt and to generate 1680 kN of force (!!). But we did it, and now we are continuing to perfect the Squirt action on bolts of these diameters. Call for information.

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SQUIRTER® FAQ: What to include in Inspection Test Plans (ITPs)

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Bolt Coating Thickness and Nut Overtapping — A Lesson in Practical Necessity

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Applied Bolting Helps Union Ironworkers Apprentice Program
 
Here's what some have to say about Squirter® DTIs and Applied Bolting's
benefit to the industry of structural steel bolting.
We are truly flattered.
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Recommended Wrench Capacity & Make

Use of DTI Washer in Accordance with ICC Specifications

Squirter® use helps CBE and DAR achieve bolting and inspection in record time at Dubai International Airport
 
The first 8000 tons of the new terminal building used standard DTI's. When Cleveland Bridge began their portion, they began to use Squirter® DTI's. Now, several hundred thousand Squirter® DTIs later, they would not change back. The project has three levels of inspection: Cleveland Bridge, the outside inspection company, and the inspectors from the owner's consultant DAR. Despite all this inspection, CBE state that they get their bolting done and approved in record time, and they tell us that's because of the visual comfort that Squirter® DTIs afford the site staff. As the bolts approach full tension, the installers and inspectors can see it, and they don't go too far. Once CBE finishes a point, it gets inspected, and there are never call-backs.
 
View The Dubai International Airport project page
 
Visit the DAR Group website

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Coated Bolts Can Improve Constructability

Download the article in PDF format (176k)
or view this article and more in our
Downloads Section

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Direct Tension Indicators: Squirter® DTI's and Constructability

Bolting can consume 30 percent of all field labor to erect steelwork. Inspection labor would be in addition to this.

Technologies make a lot of sense that reduce field installation and inspection labor, and that?s what constructability is all about. Read more here.

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M36 Euro Squirter® DTIs- Cheaper, Better Than Torque

Here's some work we did on proving the M36 DTI made specially for the windpower industry really works:
Read more here.

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Other Companies Mentioning Squirter® DTIs

There are a number of companies out there who either have adopted squirter® DTIs or have them featured on their websites. Among them A. W. Chesterton, and Cooper & Turner in the UK.   Click here for a list of more.

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A. W. Chesterton now has information on our specially manufactured Squirter® DTIs intended for B7 studs on pipe flanges, called "DTS" washers by Chesterton, up on their all-new website at http://www.chesterton.com/products/mp/product/?product=DTS

Have a look, call the Chesterton dealer near you, and get some to try.

 
 

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BULLETINS

Bolt Clinic CD-ROM. Applied Bolting's newest way for you to get technical help in the field. Now available online or for download!
Click here to get one for your site

Squirter® DTI's selected by Doosan on Vietnam's Phu My 2 Heat Recovery Stream Generator - more

New Spanish squirter® DTI Installation and Calibration sheet - click here

Revolutionary in concept, Conxtech Structural Steel Frames - take a look

Squirter® DTIs and Squirter-Twist Bolts Win Modern Steel Hot Products Competition! -
The results are in! Attendees at the North American Steel Construction Conference in Long Beach California were invited to vote for products that they thought merited a "People's Choice" award. They voted, and the winners were both Squirter-Twist bolts and Squirter® DTI's. Congratulations to us at Applied Bolting Technology. Now, what do we win?

Application Advisory: Weathering Steel DTI's on Bridges

World's Tallest Flagpole Assembled with Squirter® DTI's - take a look

"Tell-Tale" SQUIRTER® DTIs. Inexpensive, low pre-load, just to tell that some tightening was done on the bolt. click here

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