Technical Help – from Atlantic and independent experts
Atlantic’s tech service department
We offer you money-saving technical help by phone, fax, e-mail or in person. It includes:
- Diagnosing problems, like galling and improper torquing
- Helping in standardizing fasteners
- Suggesting off-the-shelf items as substitutes for costly "Specials"
- Conducting technical seminars
- Advising on new product development
- Recommending safe and proper installation techniques
- Assisting in custom designing fasteners
- Bringing manufacturers' engineers into your plant
Atlantic’s Tech Services department helped Invensys (formerly Foxboro Company) save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Let them do the same for you.
Dan McKeeman is our Tech Services and Made-to-Print manager. He has over 28 years of experience in fastener and manufacturing problem solving. Supporting him is Don Mahall, a degreed mechanical engineer with a 35-year background in design, fabrication, assembly and new product development. Specialties:
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Independent
fastener experts
If you face particularly troublesome fastener issues, including legal
proceedings, consider contacting the following nine nationally recognized
fastener consultants. With an average of over 38 years of fastener experience
each, they should provide you with ready solutions to your problems.
To serve you better and at our request, they’ve agreed to be listed here.
None are affiliated with Atlantic nor compensate us in any way for their listing or consulting work.
To avoid the appearance of favoritism, we’ve listed them in alphabetical order. Please contact them directly. If you work with them, we’d appreciate an objective evaluation of your dealings.
With over 45 years of fastener experience, Mr. Barrett is a former NASA consultant specializing in the areas shown below. He’s also a noted author of magazine articles, a fastener manual, a chapter in a book and a video on fasteners. Specialties:
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Mr. Blendulf has 36 years of fastener experience both as a mechanical engineer in private industry and later as a university educator. He’s a well-known author of numerous technical articles in fastener related publications. Specialties:
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In 1995, Mr. DeHaitre founded DeHaitre & Associates, Inc., a consulting service for industrial OEM’s and the hardware trade. He has over 38 years of fastener experience. Specialties:
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Mr. Doppke is founder and president of Technical Presentations Company -- a fastener consultant, education and litigation company. He has over 47 years of “in depth” experience in the fastener industry. He retired from one of the Big Three automobile companies in 1999. Specialties:
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Joe
Greenslade 817-870-8888 |
Joe Greenslade is president of Greenslade & Company, Inc., which designs and manufactures special and industry-specific dimensional measuring devises,. It's also an ISO 17025 Calibration Laboratory accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). Specialties:
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With over 40 years in the fastener industry, Mr. McGuire’s multifaceted background includes ownership of a fastener distributorship for 19 years, author of seven books, publisher of two fastener magazines, producer of trade shows, and developer of six fastener-related websites. Specialties:
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William
P. Pierce phone/fax
765-453-4820 |
Mr. Pierce is president of Common Sense Fastener Technology, Inc, initially started as a consulting service to users of small self-tapping screws. He added a limited testing facility in 1999. Specialties:
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Dr.
Louis Raymond phone
949-474-7728 |
As head of L. Raymond and Associates, Dr. Raymond is a consultant to manufacturers, distributors and users. He has a fully equipped laboratory with advanced equipment for testing and evaluation. His focus is on applied research in metallurgy and structural mechanics in support of fastener system design and analysis. Specialties:
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Ralph Shoberg phone:
248-888-8260 |
A pioneer in the development of hardware and instruments for test measurement and control of the threaded fastener tightening process, Mr. Shoberg is also an author and co-producer of bolt joint analysis software. He’s founder of RS Technologies, Ltd. a fastener-testing laboratory (ISO 17025) as well as an A2LA Accredited Calibration Laboratory (ISO 17025) for torque, force and instrument calibration. He has over 35 years of fastener experience. Specialties:
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