Removable Tube Sheet Heat Exchangers to Elliott for all your tube removal needs ranging from tube cutters to tube tuggers to pneumatic hammers.The tube removal process includes several process steps that must be performed with critical sequencing & tolerances. The initial step of our process the Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) shrinking of the tube to-tube sheet expansion joints (where applicable), which performed with our st&ard plug removal TIG system. Hard rolled & tubes the shrinking process necessary to relieve the radial stress between the tube & tube sheet.