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Flange face finish

Flange face finish
AUTHOR : _ _ Date : 3/11/2013 11:09:09 PM

• FLANGE FACE FINISH

The ASME B16.5 code requires that the flange face (raised face and flat face) has a specific
roughness to ensure that this surface be compatible with the gasket and provide a high quality seal.

A serrated finish, either concentric or spiral, is required with 30 to 55 grooves per inch and a
resultant roughness between 125 and 500 micro inches. This allows for various grades of surface
finish to be made available by flange manufactures for the gasket contact surface of metal flanges.

•  THE MOST USED SURFACES ARE

 
1. Stock Finish
The most widely used of any flange surface finish, because practically, is suitable for all ordinary
service conditions. Under compression, the soft face from a gasket will embed into this finish, which
helps create a seal, and a high level of friction is generated between the mating surfaces. The finish
for these flanges is generated by a 1.6 mm radius round-nosed tool at a feed rate of 0.8 mm per
revolution up to 12 inch. For sizes 14 inch and larger, the finish is made with 3.2 mm round-nosed
tool at a feed of 1.2 mm per revolution.
 
2. Spiral Serrated
This is also a continuous or phonographic spiral groove, but it differs from the stock finish in that the
groove typically is generated using a 90-deg tool which creates a "V" geometry with 45° angled
serration.
  
3. Concentric Serrated
As the name suggests, this finish is comprised of concentric grooves. A 90° tool is used and the
serrations are spaced evenly across the face.
  
4. Smooth Finish
This finish shows no visually apparent tool markings. These finishes are typically utilized for gaskets
with metal facings such as double jacketed, flat steel and corrugated metal. The smooth surfaces
mate to create a seal and depend on the flatness of the opposing faces to effect a seal. This is
typically achieved by having the gasket contact surface formed by a continuous (sometimes called
phonographic) spiral groove generated by a 0.8 mm radius round-nosed tool at a feed rate of 0.3
mm per revolution with a depth of 0.05 mm. This will result in a roughness between Ra 3.2 and 6.3
micrometers (125 - 250 micro inch).

 
• Check all kinds of pipe fittings

1. Elbow:
45 degree elbow
45D CS butt weld elbow    45D SS butt weld elbow   45D socket weld elbow   45D threaded elbow
90 degree elbow  
90D CS butt weld elbow    90D SS butt weld elbow   90D socket weld elbow   90D threaded elbow   
street elbow
180 degree elbow  
180D CS butt weld elbow      180D SS butt weld elbow

2. Tee:
CS butt weld straight tee   CS butt weld reducing tee   SS butt weld straight tee  SS butt weld
reducing tee  socket weld tee   threaded tee
   Lateral tee:
CS butt weld lateral tee   SS butt weld lateral tee   socket weld lateral tee   threaded lateral tee

3. Cross:
 CS butt weld straight cross   CS butt weld reducing cross   SS butt weld straight cross   SS butt weld
reducing cross   socket weld cross   threaded cross

4. Reducer:
CS concentric reducer   CS eccentric reducer  SS concentric reducer   SS eccentric reducer

5. Cap:
CS butt weld cap   SS butt weld cap   socket weld cap   threaded cap

6. Stub end:
CS stub end   SS stub end

7. Coupling:
socket weld full coupling   socket weld half coupling   threaded full coupling   threaded half coupling

8. Union:
socket weld union   threaded union

9. Socket insert:
A  B

10. Plug:
hex head plug   square head plug   round head plug

11. Bushing:
hex head bushing   flush bushing 

12. Nipple: 
TBE   PBE   TOE&POE   hex nipple

13. Swaged nipple:

concentric swage nipple   eccentric swage nipple

14. Flange:
Orifice flange   lap joint flange   threaded flange   socket weld flange   weld neck flange   blind
flange   slip on flange   long weld neck flange   plate flange   large diameter flange   spectacle
blind   square flange   

15. Outolet:
weldolet   socketolet   threadolet  laterolet  coupolet  elolet   nipoflange   nipolet 

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