Do friction weld battery powered strapping tools save time?
Sometimes!..they are obviously quicker than a two piece tooling system – tensioner and sealer – using separate metal seals, but if the tool is being used to strap boxes rather than pallets then a semi automatic strapping machine such as the PSC2000 would be faster, and are less costly to buy and maintain. If the application is pallet strapping then friction weld tools offer negligible savings in time. The operator would still have to pull strap from a coilholder, haul it over the top of a pallet, down the side, thread it through pallet voids and feed it into the tool at which point not a second has been saved. The same time consuming operation has to be repeated every time a strap is put on.The only opportunity remaining for savings to be achieved is the difference in time to operate a friction weld tool and say a magazine or combination tool such as the Series 5000 …generally not more than 1-2 seconds per strap, so he would have to strap like ‘bees wings’ non stop all day to save 10 m
