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With the arrival of the summer, you may be thinking about upgrading your tools to improve and refine operations to stay away from the blistering heat. McElroy’s tools are renowned for their ability to boost productivity and improve efficiency while still being incredibly safe to use provided the machines are operated correctly. The Rolling 618 Fusion Machine Package remains one of the most powerful McElroy machines. Something of a halfway point between large and small diameter fusion, the machine features a universal, easily removable four jaw carriage that allows for remote fusion operations, similar to other McElroy machines. The outer...

Today, McElroy tools are among the most widely used when it comes to machinery equipment. Have you wondered how it came to be? Let’s take a brief trip through history. Multi-talented inventor, designer, and engineer Art McElroy is the man who founded McElroy, a company which began in his Tulsa, Oklahoma garage. With the help of his spouse and a passion for design, McElroy Manufacturing, Inc. made its debut in 1954. By the time the 1960s came around, McElroy was a fintube machinery pioneer. The first McElroy polyethylene fusion machine made its introduction in 1969. After someone asked to create...

We’ve gone into detail regarding some of the McElroy machines we sell like the TracStar and Pitbull machines, both of which deliver the exceptional results and reliability that you would expect of McElroy. Today we’re slightly shifting gears by telling you more about the equally powerful and incredibly versatile Polygon Fusion Machine. The Polygon is a multifaceted tool able to perform three different operations, including butt fusing joints and fabricating miter joints from zero- to 45-degree angles with extra socket fusion capabilities for polypropylene pipe. This is the first of McElroy's manual butt fusion machine that provides compatibility with the...

With its robust selection of machines, McElroy offers fusion tools for every need, size and scope not being much of a factor. When it comes to smaller solutions, McElroy’s Mini-Mc® is available to save the day or you can choose something like its cousin, the 1LC Fusion Machine Package. The McElroy 1LC is a powerful alternative that provides a greater level of conventional operation while retaining many of the features of its sibling, the McElroy 2LC. The 1LC heater shares similarities with McElroy’s other machines by being located on the unit’s guide rods. One of its most distinctive and useful...

If you have yet to evolve your fusion data record keeping to the power of the McElroy Datalogger® 6, you may be missing out. With this useful and rugged tool, all of the details involving your joint fusion data are able to be recorded, organized and changed as needed without tons of paperworkThe DataLogger runs on Android, the popular Google operating system which powers millions of smartphones and tablets. The software can keep track of data like heat soak times and heating pressure. Despite it being an Android tablet, the DataLogger 6 was designed for real-world. This means it provides...