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for your job, including a handy cheat sheet.

Through a long-standing partnership of over 20 years, Tremco Pipeline Equipment supplies 12 types of durable and hard-wearing Sawyer Manufacturing external pipe clamps to the Oceania pipeline market. Each is suited to specific applications, including small or large diameter pipe, alignment or reforming, tack or no tack, and clamps with hydraulic or hand lever mechanisms. But how do you know which external pipe clamp is the most suitable for your needs? 

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To make the process easier, Tremco Pipeline Equipment and Sawyer Manufacturing have teamed up to explain the basics of pipe clamps, and demystify which clamps are best suited to specific applications. 

What is a pipe clamp? 

A pipe clamp is a circular or semicircular metal attachment that fits tightly around the pipeline and connects it to a pipe hanger assembly. The clamp is used to secure, align or reform the pipe while completing pipeline welding during construction or maintenance activities. 

How do pipe clamps work? 

The best pipe clamps are made with a simple structure that can be easily and quickly fitted around the pipe. For welding, pipe alignment clamps keep the pipe aligned and restrained while the welding process is completed. They help to keep welding pressure steady, increase welding accuracy, and reduce the risk of weld failure due to stress, misalignment or lack of pressure.

External clamps can also be used to reform pipe to aid accurate and efficient welding for out-of-round pipe. Also known as pipe ovality, this can occur during the transportation of new high-strength steel, thin-walled pipe, or on existing pipelines that have been subject to adverse weather conditions or buried for a long period of time. 

Types of pipe clamp 

There&#;s a large range of different external pipe clamps available for specific needs. At Tremco Pipeline Equipment, we supply Sawyer Manufacturing cage clamps, rim clamps, hydraulic clamps, and easy-to-use, efficient clamps for small diameter pipelines. Sawyer&#;s line of pipe-to-pipe fit-up equipment is simple, easy to use, durable and enables accurate welding. 

So which pipe clamp is best? Sawyer Manufacturing has put together this quick quiz to help you decide on the right pipe clamp for your job. 

Hi!

Based on your experience I would like to hear your opinion on this subject &#; piping supports for stainless steel pipe i.e. the problem of choosing the right material of piping support for stainless steel pipe.
My main concern is how to install/make a fix point for stainless steel pipe considering the problem of galvanic corrosion and avoiding contact between carbon steel and stainless steel.

Because of galvanic corrosion, contact between black and white material should be avoided.
From my experience to achieve this, clamped pipe shoe is used made of regular carbon steel and than a thin strip of PTFE material is inserted onto pipe to separate clamp made out of carbon steel and pipe made out of stainless steel.

The problem is that we also need anti-slip lugs to keep the pipe from slipping through the pipe support clamp. Tis lugs have to be welded to the pipe and they should be made out of the same material as the pipe, right?

Another approach would be to use the stainless steel for the whole support but than you have to weld white material support to the black beam on the steel structure where the support is located!
To solve this issue, there is an option to use black material for the base plate of the pipe support which can be welded to the steel structure, right? Or?

Do you know maybe how this is done usually on sites this days?