Walter,
I guess that it is all in the interpretation of 6.5 "special nozzle equipment". Just like most specifications there is alot of room for interpretation in the AMS-S-13165. There is also no mention of manual peening not being allowed. We employ quite a bit of manual peening along with automatic peening. There are a lot of various configurations that we would not be able to peen without utilizing the manual peener. In those cases the new AMS2430 would require notifying the customer in each case and having them approve the techniques employed, I assume?
