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If it’s been a while since you’ve visited the McElroy Parts website, we’ve quietly made some enhancements to the navigation to help you find what you need quicker and more comprehensively. Specifically, the Fusion Machines and Accessories menus have been expanded with more options, making it simple to narrow down the information you may be looking for. Under the Fusion Machines menu, for example, you’ll find a Machine Breakdown menu for several different McElroy® Pitbull and Rolling machines. Upon clicking one of these models, you’ll be greeted with a useful page showing you easy to read information on how to...

In a perfect world, a joint failure situation would not be a thing, but it can happen and it often seems like it happens during the most critical moments when you’re on a tight schedule. What precautions should you take to make sure that it does not occur? If you visit the YouTube channel of McElroy, you can watch a concise, entertaining video about this particular subject. The manufacturer recently held a presentation earlier this week talking about joint failure. We invite you if you have yet to do so, to visit our sister website, Miami International Machinery & Equipment...

The McElroy Socket Fusion Kits found on the McElroy Parts website are suitable for mounting fittings as small as 16 mm or as wide as 125 mm for pipe diameters. Such tools are specifically equipped for socket fusing the polypropylene pipe and fittings for all major brands. Such convenient kits for both heaters and socket adapters supply you with the resources necessary to complete your socket fusion job promptly. The McElroy Socket Tooling follows the standards for pipes and fittings of ISO 15874, DIN 16962, and DIN 8077. The Spider 125 is able to provide an easily accurate socket fusion...

Bradley Lake in Alaska is home to the largest hydroelectric facility in “The Last Frontier” of the United States. A few years ago, the facility underwent a massive $40+ million project aimed at expanding the facility which provides power to more than five electric utilities in the Railbelt area.For pipe fusion needs, none other than the McElroy® Talon 2000 was used to efficiently manage 53” HDPE pipe as the hydroelectric dam was built. This machine is a massive, powerful tool designed to take on large diameter pipe. As McElroy’s largest current fusion machine, the Talon is built for hefty demands...

Designed for 355 mm to 630 mm pipe, the McElroy® Acrobat with QuikFit is the solution for problems involving polypropylene pipe fusion with a large diameter in environments where there may not be a lot of space to move machines and pipe around.The revolutionary carriage is size-specific and consists of lightweight, modular components that allow manual mounting of the upper and lower jaws around the pipe. This eliminates the need to lift and fit in a small space with a whole carriage. It will fuse the pipe for any orientation required for plumbing, mechanical, and HVAC installations including vertical and...