An additional benefit was added to the goal today. That is we occasionaly get operator finger cuts from the periphery of the screw where it gets hammered out over the Almen strip to a knife-like edge. Every time we load/unload an Almen strip there is a chance of getting cut. I believe the carburized screw would prevent this from happening. Q:) Anyone seen this?? For us this always occurs on a rotary lance peening operation.
Mike W. - THANKS, I will add some SS slotted pan heads to the test sometime this week and see how they compare.
Socrates - THANKS, Confirmation is always a refreshing thing. I hoped someone has already tried this.
Pete - THANKS, our goal is to aim for avoiding all labor possible to keep costs to a minimum, I agree we could probably plug the hex, but it would cost us labor to install/remove them. We did verify that duct tape disks on the screws erroded away very quickly (and was slow to apply)
