Filament Wound Boom & Insulated Boom Designers
Designing Insulated Booms
At Waco Boom, we design and manufacture fiberglass booms according to our client’s needs and applications. As insulated boom designers, we have been designing custom-insulated booms since 1974. Our booms can be found around the world thanks to our reputation for consistency, quality, and on-time delivery.
Filament wound boom designers start with the dimensions our clients require for their insulated boom. This includes any documents, drawings or supporting documents that detail this information. Once dimensions are finalized, we move on to approval of our standard tolerances and load ratings. As experienced insulated boom designers, we have a reputation for designing booms with the right fit, strength and non-conductivity. Our fiberglass boom designers design filament wound booms to your exact size specifications.
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Benefits of Designing Fiberglass Boom
What are the Benefits of Designing Fiberglass Booms?
At every step of the process, our clients get the benefit of our experience. We want our customers to be successful, so if we see a design element that won’t work, we speak up to ensure your fiberglass aerial boom is the best it can be.
Finally, when designing insulated booms, safety is our top priority. We design fiberglass booms that meet all applicable ANSI standards. We commit to designing the highest quality fiberglass booms so our customers can work safely and effectively.
For more information about filament wound boom design, contact us today.
Applications for Fiberglass Booms
What are the Applications for Fiberglass Booms?
We design for the following filament wound boom applications:
- Aviation and aerospace
- Commercial and retail
- Municipalities, public works, and departments of transportation
- Electric utility
- Telecommunications
- Sigh, light, and traffic
- Wind energy
- Tree care and vegetation management
Our Process, Our Booms
Waco Boom's expertise in a multi-stage, controlled manufacturing process is why our booms are the best performing and most reliable booms in the industry.
Over 30 years of vetting different types and sources of fiberglass combined with a special epoxy-based resin system, enables us to produce the very best Fiber-Reinforced (FRP) booms and jibs. All materials undergo quality assurance testing when received.
Waco Boom’s CNC Filament Winding is optimal for focusing patterns and glass angles specific for load requirements and stresses of the aerial work platforms or jib arms.
Through a proprietary Close-Molding process, Waco Boom can achieve high-density, controlled fiber-to-resin ratio. This serves optimum capacity, stiffness, and strength at the basket / boom tip with less weight of material. In addition, it controls specific dimensions and condenses voids in the laminate so moisture and debris cannot enter and cause dielectric failure.
After a controlled curing cycle, booms are prepared for coating. A grinding process provides surface prepping without cutting deep into the continuous fibers which provide its strength. The standard gelcoat sprayed by Waco Boom provides durability and flexibility. It is also designed so it can easily be sanded if booms are going to receive a final coat of urethane once installed.
Quality Assurance checks are administered throughout the production process based on customer specifications and internal tolerances. Prior to shipping, all booms undergo dialectric testing, and final inspections.
These processes evolved over the company’s history to create a truly unique insulating boom. Our exacting and unique manufacturing processes ensure the highest strength and degree of insulation possible in the industry.
Use and Design
Engineers at Waco Boom have a long-standing history of serving on the committee that helps define standards for ANSI A92.2. With a primary focus on safety and understanding its use, it is Waco Boom’s privileged to have jibs, upper booms, and lower booms represented on telescopic, articulating, and overcenter aerial platforms in addition to insulated tools and line lifters. Protecting workers, the public, and property, these booms serve these categories of usage:
Our Process, Our Booms
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Contact Us
If you have any questions or would like more information on any of our products, please contact us or submit a request.
(254) 776-2556
Mailing Address
PO BOX 20008
Waco, Texas 76702
Shipping Address
481 Texas Central Parkway
Waco, Texas 76712