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09/07/24

Removing heat scale, oxidation and machining marks from forged aerospace components

by Miles

The forging process for components like landing gear struts and beams often results in the presence of heat scale and oxidation on the component’s...

03/07/24

Finishing cast aerospace components by wet blasting...

by Miles

Wet blasting is highly effective at removing casting resist, burrs and other contaminants from the surfaces of fan and turbine blades, blisks, drive...

30/06/24

Preparing aerospace components for coating, including CVD and PVD coating...

by Miles

PVD or CVD coating fan blades has two important affects. First, it maintains the surface finish of the blade for much longer by significantly...

25/06/24

Vapormatt Puma + Vertical (with satellites) for automatically finishing round shank tools…

by Miles

Puma + Vertical turntable with 42 satellites

We’ve just finished shooting a video of our automatic Puma + wet blasting machine. This particular machine is configured with 42 satellites for the...

11/06/24

Our patented ‘Doughnut Sump’ removes the need to dig a pit in factory floors for larger wet blasting machines

by Miles

We’ve just finished our Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) on a large automatic Leopard Horizontal wet blasting machine destined for a leading aerospace...

05/06/24

Why is consistency, automation and controllability of the finishing process so important to aerospace manufacturers and MRO operations?

by Miles

Consider the fir tree slots of a jet engine disk. They are critical jet engine components and need to be maintained to a very high standard because...

17/05/24

Clean, strip and prepare alloy wheels for re-painting in one rapid environmentally friendly operation.

by Miles

By altering the wet blast recipe wet blasting can clean alloy wheels without damage to coatings, lightly etch for re-painting, polish to give a...

07/05/24

Creating the perfect surface for bonding and coating carbon fibre components

by Miles

Carbon fibre before and after wet blasting

Wet blasting produces a highly clean ‘wet-out’ surface on carbon fibre that ensures excellent coverage of adhesives and coatings like lacquer and...

30/04/24

Preparing additive manufactured (AM) aerospace components for NDT

by Miles

Additive manufactured aerospace component

Wet blasting is highly suited to cleaning, de-painting, and preparing metal, composite, and polymer AM aerospace components for NDT or coatings like...

19/04/24

Applications for wet blasting carbon fibre aerospace components

by Miles

Thanks to its high strength-to-weight ratio, fatigue and corrosion resistance, and many other reasons, carbon fibre is widely used in aerospace.Wet...

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