Metraflex Introduces Free Wall-Penetration-Seal App

The Metraflex Co., the Chicago-based manufacturer of specialty piping products, recently launched a free application for iPhone/iPad and Android that helps users quickly calculate the links required to fill pipe gaps in wall penetrations.

Scott Arnold

Feb. 21, 2012

Named for the company’s MetraSeal pipe-penetration seal, the app requires only the inputting of wall-penetration inside diameter and round-pipe outside diameter. The appropriate MetraSeal mechanical-link model number and number of links to properly fill the gap are displayed immediately.

Once installed on a smartphone or tablet, the app works without a cell signal, so calculations can be made anywhere at any time.

To download the MetraSeal app, go to Apple’s iTunes store or Android Market.

About the Author

Scott Arnold

Executive Editor

Described by a colleague as "a cyborg ... requir(ing) virtually no sleep, no time off, and bland nourishment that can be consumed while at his desk" who was sent "back from the future not to terminate anyone, but with the prime directive 'to edit dry technical copy' in order to save the world at a later date," Scott Arnold joined the editorial staff of HPAC Engineering in 1999. Prior to that, he worked as an editor for daily newspapers and a specialty-publications company. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.