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Articles from The Shot Peener magazine
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- The Total Cost of Weight Revisited: An Essay on Cost as a Function of Weight in Automobiles and the Use of Shot Peening to Re
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, Spring 2004
- Sydney L. Terry (Retired) Chrysler Corporation - Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Roger S. Simpson, Advanced Material Process Corporation - Wayne, Michigan, U.S.A. Editor's Note: Even though this article w...
- What makes the MagnaValve green?
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, Spring 2004
- The MagnaValve is an environmentally responsible product-it conserves energy and media. Invented by Electronics Inc. in 1983, the MagnaValve is a magnetic valve that will regulate the flow of steel sh...
- Environment - Energy Conservation
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, Spring 2004
- Because energy waste can be found in most businesses, there are tremendous opportunities for reducing energy consumption and thereby reducing costs. The over-consumption of energy is often hidden; may...
- SITS 2004 Surface Treatment Show
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, Spring 2004
- SITS 2004 Le Salon des Traitements de Surfaces at Rev...
- When shot peening practices go bad
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, 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...
- The FAA Elevates Shot Peening
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 2, Spring 2004
- Shot peening is used in the manufacturing, maintenance and repair of aircraft components to enhance or restore fatigue properties that are lost in service or repair (welding, blemish removal, etc.) Th...
- The European Workshop, Goteborg, Sweden, May 25 & 26
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- A strong cross-section from the European shot peening industry was represented at the 2004 European workshop. Topics ranged from the academic, including shot peening theory, intensity, coverage and sa...
- Surface Finishing Equipment Co. - Shot Peening Machine for Automotive Industry
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- India. Surface Finishing Equipment Co. has introduced a shot peening machine for rack pistons (a critical automobile component). The rack pistons are shot peened to increase their fatigue strength....
- Air Blast Deburring - A Smooth Move for Machine Shops and Others with Rough Edges
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 3, Summer 2004
- Clemco Industries Corp. Our customers are relentless - ever introducing me to their new production challenges to work on in the lab. It's a good thing because I thrive on being able to help and surpa...
- 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...
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