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- Shot Control the flow, control the costs
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- This is the second in a series of articles that address the value and benefits of using shot flow control valves on abrasive blast cleaning machines. In my first article (Spring, 2004 issue of The Sho...
- Making golf balls can be a real blast
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- How can a boron carbide nozzle help improve your golf game? Well, that's certainly a fair question. In golf, of course, it's all about the shot. How far did the ball travel? Was it a straight shot? D...
- Test Blasting Finds Winning Formula For Cleaning Truck-Engine Pistons
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- Empire Abrasive Equipment Company Rebuilding diesel engines to pull twenty tons of freight for a million miles presents challenges. When these overhauls are guaranteed for distances approaching two r...
- Batter up! Turning an aluminum tube into a baseball bat
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- Editor's Note: This article was reprinted with the permission of TPJ - The Tube & Pipe Journal, Official Publication of the Tube & Pipe Association, Int'l., 833 Featherstone Road, Rockford, IL, 61107 ...
- The Application of Mechanical Surface Treatment in the Passenger Car Industry
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- 1 Introduction At the beginning of automobile manufacturing, about 100 years ago, customer expectations concerning performance and quality were relatively low. People drove cars for the purpose of ge...
- Shot Peening Education in Japan
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- According to books I've researched on the subject, shot peening may have been introduced in Japan as early as 1935. The process was called "sand blasting" or "steel ball blasting" at that time, not "s...
- RotoMate increases your blasting production!
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- The RotoMate is a unique nozzle manipulator which creates a big circular blast pattern. Driven by a pneumatic motor the nozzle makes a rotating movement and creates a blast pattern of up to 20 inches ...
- Wheelabrator Wire Mesh Belt Provides Astec Underground with Ability to Clean Wide Workpieces
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Burlington, Canada. Astec Underground, based in Loudon, Tenn., builds Case and Trencor brands of trencher machines. When the company bought a former John Deere plant to serve as their new manufacturin...
- Surface finishing-it's all about lookin' good
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Clemco Industries Corp. In the last several issues of The Shot Peener, my articles have been about blasting applications and the different reasons why customers use blasting in their operations or pr...
- Wheel Blast Cleaning - Amperage - Control it and you'll control wear damage, energy and costs
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- This is the third in a series of articles that address the costs savings that can be achieved when the wheel blast cleaning process is controlled. Abrasive blast cleaning machine designers and builde...
- Shot Peening and Spring Life - All Leaves are Critical
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- This bulletin was printed with permission of Dayton Parts. OEM Quality For many years, every major OEM manufacturer has specified shot peening of all leaves on their passenger car and truck springs....
- Failure Investigation of Large Wind Turbine Transmission Housings
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Abstract When a significant percentage of wind turbine housings from a major U.S. manufacturer experienced failures in their first eighteen months of operation, Structural Integrity Associates was re...
- Environment - Opportunity in the Wind
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Wind energy. It is abundant, it is endless it is a gift to anyone that is willing to harness it. Its negative impact on our health and the health of the environment is minimal compared to fossil fuels...
- When Shot Peening Practices Go Bad
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18/Issue 1 Spring 2004
- History proves that there are severe consequences for poor shot peening practices in the aerospace industry. In the spring of 1992, three men were sentenced to jail time in a bad-parts case. The case ...
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