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Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

(OP)
Hello all.  I'm looking for a manufacturer of pressurized welded metal bellows accumulators (WMBA).  A few years back I had found a company on the internet that had a catalog of stock WMBA's with different fluid capacities and precharge pressures.  I can not locate it online anymore. Does anyone know of any such companies?  I know there are companies out there that can custom make such accumulators, but I want the best solution...just cheaply, the closer to off the shelf the better.

More specifically, fluid displaced = 26in^3, precharge pressure = ?(VERY FLEXIBLE ON THIS)

Thanks.

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

Have you tried Google with "metal bellows"?
Plenty of hits.

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

(OP)
I've tried metal bellows in a google search (Amongst many, many, other combinations)  but the same few companies show up and they are the custom manufacturers.  I know there was a company out there before that had catalog items, maybe i'll try some other search engines.  Seems lately that google really likes to post patent information (which is relatively useless).

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

Check Pipingtech.com.  The sell bellows for expansion joints but may not sell what you need.

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

From my standpoint (aerospace) there are only a few metal bellows suppliers.  So your usage is more along the industrial use?

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

(OP)
Our product line is split between the aerospace and civilian/industrial.  We've used the custom metal bellows houses before with great success, however the costs involved with these houses exceed my limits on this civil job.  I want metal bellows for the infinite life they provide as well as hermeticity, but have a lot of design space to fit in an unoptimized accumulator chosen "off the shelf".  

I really wish I would have documented that companies name....

Monkeydog: what suppliers have you used?  we've used belfab with lots of success.

RE: Looking for Metal Bellows Accumulator Manufacturer

I have used Senior Metal Bellows which has been bought and rebought several times.  They have done good for me.
There are others I am aware of but do not have direct involvement, so cannot say first hand.  But I can say, Flexible Metal Bellows, and Kinemotive Corp has aerospace experience.

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