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“There’s 30psi in your car tyre, whereas there’s 2,000 psi in these hoses – and we call that low pressure. “You need to see a hose burst before you’ll really get what’s at stake. I did it deliberately in front of the two lads who would be using the new rig when we introduced it at Limerick. They jumped. “It was one of the highest pressure hoses that we test, rated up to 2,000 bar. We got to 24,000 psi. I was up to 22 then 23 and I thought let’s keep it going. Eventually it was one of the fittings that we knew was not rated to that pressure that burst. Believe you me now, when they’re testing a hose in Limerick they understand.”
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certificates and reduces pre-filling and setup times.
“We have the smaller rig in Limerick,” he says, “It does the same job but it’s slower. Because the bulk of our hoses are tested here in Galway – you could have 80 or 90 of them coming at you at any one time – we needed to speed the process up.” Pirtek Galway valued Resato’s knowledge and experience in the field of high- pressure testing, Sean explains. “We knew Resato had the knowledge to build a system that covered our pressure testing range, from two bar to 2,000 bar.
six months. This is our third brand and we won’t be deviating from it.”
The new rig really is something special, according to Sean. “Resato had never made a rig to test all ranges in one like this before,” he says. “They said there were rigs to test this or that, but not one single rig that could carry out all of the functions. “We’re testing 15 bar, 250 bar, 2,000 bar. You couldn’t get a rig to do it all, which is why we specified a bespoke unit.” Having worked with two other Resato units, Sean was convinced of the reliability of the equipment.
It’s not just the hose testing rig that is specialised. At the heart of the hydraulic system is a powerful compressor. “This compressor just ticks along silently,” Sean says. “Even if the three or four hundred litre tank is empty, it will run the rig on its own. You can’t be left waiting. “It is not just your normal compressor, your normal fit-out pipes, your normal refrigeration units, normal driers and the rest,” Sean says. “Absolutely everything is high end.”
“There are loads of test rigs out there – one of the brands we tried lasted us just
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