3 Advantages of Marlin Steel's Custom Wire Mesh Baskets

02 Dec.,2024

 

3 Advantages of Marlin Steel's Custom Wire Mesh Baskets

As an experienced metal fabrication company, Marlin Steel often manufactures custom baskets made from wire mesh and from sheet metal components for a variety of applications.

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The engineers at Marlin have extensive knowledge and experience designing a variety of baskets to best meet the needs of any customer. 

Let&#;s look at the characteristics and advantages of mesh wire baskets to see if these are the right baskets for you.

3 Advantages of Wire Mesh Baskets

Here are three advantages of wire mesh baskets:

Open Space

Marlin's wire baskets are made with varying amounts of open space. Open spaces in mesh wire baskets are good for allowing a free flow of air and liquid. This makes it easy for parts to dry while sitting in the basket after a wash cycle. With a wire mesh basket, the individual wires that form the mesh can be spaced as far apart as needed to make it easier for the cleaning medium in your wash processes. 

This is useful for aqueous wash processes and vapor degreasing. Marlin's baskets make sure that the parts you wash are cleaned efficiently. 

Weight and Tensile Strength

Wire mesh baskets are typically lighter than their sheet metal counterparts, with a lower tensile strength to match. 

The baskets you choose should have the right tensile strength to hold your parts for the washing and finishing process. Heavy parts in a basket with low tensile strength may deform or damage the basket during regular usage.

Marlin has options for the weight and tensile strength of all of their wire baskets. To increase tensile strength, you can add reinforcements to the custom basket. Some add ons include extra wires that are wrapped and welded to the outside of the basket to prevent bending. 

Flexibility of Design

Wire baskets need to conform as closely to the shape of your parts as possible so they don't move around much during the washing and finishing process.

With wire mesh baskets, creating a custom shape to hold the parts exactly is easier than it is with a sheet metal fabrication. Each wire can be bent to nearly any conceivable angle to accommodate specialty parts perfectly. Sheet metal baskets, being made from thicker, more solid pieces of metal, are more difficult to contour perfectly to a custom shape.

When to Use Custom Wire Baskets

Custom wire baskets are best for the following situations:

  • You need a basket to conform perfectly to the shape of a part.
  • Your basket needs the solution being applied to reach the part easily.
  • You need cleaning or finishing solutions to runoff and drain away completely
  • Your parts loads are relatively lightweight.

Use custom wire baskets as:

  • Parts washing baskets
  • Ultrasonic baskets
  • Aqueous washing processes
  • Vapor degreasing baskets 

Ordering Custom Wire Forms: 3 Things to Consider

Here are three things to consider when you order your custom wire forms.

1. Weight, Shape, and Size of the Parts

The first consideration to think about is the weight, size, and shape of your parts. Every custom wire basket you order must account for these things in order for the basket to be useful.

Baskets that are created without keeping your specific parts in mind may damage your parts and render them useless.

Discuss the dimensions of your parts with an expert Marlin engineer so they can create the right basket for your needs.

2. Process Temperatures

When you are purchasing your custom wire forms, you'll need to consider what temperature you'll be exposing them to. 

The metal alloy and special coating you choose will react differently when exposed to temperature extremes. Many steel alloys may end up losing tensile strength if they are consistently exposed to high temperatures.

Certain steel coatings may also become compromised when exposed to extremely low or high temperatures.

Make sure you know what temperatures you'll be exposing your baskets to and for how long before you order. This way, you'll know the right metal alloy to purchase along with the proper coating.

3. Environmental Factors

You'll need to consider the environment of the factory or storage site where you'll be using the baskets. Some mesh wire baskets can be damaged by chemicals, contaminants, or even salty sea air. 

Knowing what your baskets will be exposed to can help the engineer to optimize your basket to resist exposure to chemicals and contaminants.

Use Marlin Steel For Your Custom Wire Basket Needs

Marlin uses wire bending robots that are quick and efficient for fast execution and order fulfillment. Any style of steel basket can be manufactured for your specific needs. 

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The Principals of Woven Wire Mesh


Woven wire mesh is one of the most versatile materials in the world, helping to facilitate various operations across countless industries. From enhancing the design of a structure with a dynamic look to filtering out unwanted contaminants, woven wire mesh affects our everyday lives in more ways than one.

But at first glance, it can be hard to truly understand the principles and possibilities of woven wire mesh. This leaves us with the underlying question: what is woven wire mesh?

We understand that woven wire mesh can sometimes be underwhelming, but over the years, we have seen mesh deliver actual results that have revolutionized the operation of our customers.

To that end, we wrote this article to provide insight into:

  • What woven wire mesh is

  • How woven wire mesh is made

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  • The form factors of wire mesh

  • Woven wire mesh applications

  • How much woven wire mesh costs

 

What Is Woven Wire Mesh?

Woven wire mesh, also referred to as woven metal mesh and wire cloth, are rolls, sheets, or components of interlocked metallic wires that undergo a weaving process to take on a specific weave pattern. The number of individual wires used to construct the mesh is pre-determined along with the weave pattern, wire diameter, aperture size, micron rating, width, and length.

 

How Is Woven Wire Mesh Made?

Woven wire mesh is woven using a specialized weaving loom designed to work with metallic wires. Looms are typically set up to weave 48&#;, 60&#; or 72&#; mesh rolls; however, 98&#; and wider have become available in recent years.

Now, using a weaving technique that is similar to the methods used to weave clothing, the weaving loom works to interlock each individual wire using the tension at each cross-section to keep the mesh intact. To that end, current technology allows for opening sizes ranging from 5 microns to 4&#;.

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Understanding Woven Wire Mesh

All woven wire mesh products are woven similarly. That said, wire mesh is available in three form factors, each with its own beneficial qualities.

These forms are square mesh, filter mesh, and architectural mesh.

 

Square Mesh

Woven wire square mesh is a wire mesh variant that consists of weft and warp wire that share identical wire diameters. It can be woven to plain weave, inter-crimped weave, or pre-crimped weave specifications, depending on your needs.

To that end, square mesh is typically available in wire mesh rolls or cut-to-size mesh panels.

 

Filter Mesh

Metal mesh filters, also referred to as stainless steel filter mesh, are wire mesh variants in which the network of metallic wires is woven to form peruse and rigid pore openings. Filter mesh is typically designed to remove contaminants from a given substance or extract certain particles to create a filter cake.

When it comes to availability, you can purchase filter mesh in rolls or cut-to-size pieces much like square mesh. Additionally, filter mesh can be fabricated to a specific size and shape to fit your filter system.

 

Architectural Mesh

Architectural mesh, also known as metal mesh fabric, is best defined as a high-tensile mesh variant used as a design element when strategizing an architectural design process. The mesh is typically constructed from 316-stainless steel up to 80% recycled to remain as sustainable as possible.

It&#;s important to know that while the mesh is rigid enough to provide a safer environment within parking structures, there remains a sense of flexibility when tensioned. This allows it to be applied to almost any structure, regardless of the design parameters of the structure are standard or irregular.

 

Woven Wire Mesh Applications

Sieve Cloth

When wire mesh is woven specifically to be used in test sieves, it is referred to as sieve cloth. What makes sieve cloth stand out from other mesh variants is the fact that it is woven to a specified nominal opening with a specific wire diameter.

More importantly, it is woven to be complicit with ASTM E11 and ISO -1 standards.

While it is generally reserved to test sieve construction, it can also be applied to large-scale screening operations.

 

Industrial Mesh

Industrial wire mesh is used to encompass the use of square mesh or filter mesh on a large scale. In other words, anytime wire mesh is purchased in rolls or large quantities of cut-to-size pieces, it is considered industrial mesh.

When it comes to applications, industrial mesh is great for industries that wish to leverage the benefits of wire mesh while handling any custom fabrication in-house. This includes the automotive, medical, and filtration industries.

 

Screen Printing

Stainless steel wire mesh, when the correct mesh openings are applied, can provide substantial benefits to your screen printing process. When compared to other materials, such as nylon mesh, wire mesh offers enhanced tensioning capabilities, durability, ink distribution, and cost savings.

 

Fabricated Parts

As stated above, wire mesh can be fabricated to take on a specific size and shape. In order to be considered a fabricated wire mesh part, a value-added service must be added to achieve the desired form.

Now, while the possibilities of what can be achieved with wire mesh are virtually limitless, the most common forms are cut-to-size pieces, deep drawn parts, edged solutions, pressed articles, and cylindrical filter cartridges.

How Much Does Woven Wire Mesh Cost?

Regardless if you are implementing sieve cloth, industrial mesh, architectural mesh, or filter mesh, the factors that influence the cost of wire mesh are fairly the same. This includes the size, shape, mesh specification, quantity, alloy, and layer configuration (fabricated parts).

Any additional requirements, such as DFARS compliance and value-added services, will also factor into the overall cost of the mesh.

 

Gain Insight Into Wire Mesh Welding

Woven wire mesh is individual metallic wires that are woven to form rolls, pieces, and components of mesh that have precise openings that are used for a wide range of applications. Its versatile properties allow it to be applied to applications such as filtration, particle analysis, architectural, screen printing, and much more.

But to truly create a wire mesh solution that meets your expectation, you should understand the possibilities of welding wire mesh during the fabrication process. This will help you gauge whether the alloy you use will allow for welding or if the welding technique you wish to apply will affect the performance of the mesh.

Over the years, we have come to understand that there is so much more to woven wire mesh than just wire that is woven and seek to enrich our customers with the wealth of knowledge that we have within the walls here at W.S. Tyler.

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