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Articles from The Shot Peener magazine
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- Survival of the Fittest
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 2, Spring 2022
- SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST certainly applies to a global pandemic, supply chain disruption, and raging inflation. Some companies cut back on marketing and advertising to “save cash”. Other companie...
- ICSP14 - It is Time to Start It Over
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- OUR EVERYDAY LIFE has been deeply affected by the COVID pandemic. We could not imagine the way we lived after the boom of the infections during Winter 2020. Now we can say that we have learned how ...
- Water (and Media) Under the Bridge
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- PROBLEM In 2018, a Munkebo customer of 15 years needed to recover and recycle spent steel grit while blasting the concrete and steel structures of a 900-foot bridge. The contractor had a niche busi...
- Reducing Costs for a Specialty Steel Manufacturer
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- THE SITUATION A special alloy steel rolling, shearing and finishing company uses shot blast equipment with four blast wheels loaded with cast steel shot to prepare the surface of their high-alloy st...
- Back to Basics - Shot Peening in a Nutshell
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- INTRODUCTION This article aims to cover just the basic features of shot peening. Other articles can be referred to for extended accounts. Shot peening is, essentially, a surface workhardening proce...
- How to Archive Shot-Peened Almen Strips
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- AN IMPORTANT ASPECT of archiving shot-peened Almen strips is the packaging and location for long-term storage. After years of storage, the last thing one wants to find in the archive is a paper env...
- How Time Affects Almen Strip Arc Height
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- INTRODUCTION Can or should Almen strips be archived? Does the arc height after peening change over time and if yes, by how much? If there is a change, is the change of relevant magnitude? These que...
- Tribal Knowledge in the Blast Industry Part 5
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- KEEPING THE MOMENTUM Producing discussion topics for The Shot Peener is no easy task. Physics does not change often, and our industry seldom experiences dramatic breakthroughs! Our cognizant readers...
- Visualization and Analysis of Media Speed
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- THE SURFACE EFFECTS of a shot peening process are mainly determined by peening media properties and the velocity and direction of the media particles relative to the surface. Because of the difficu...
- 2021 Shot Peener of the Year Michael Schmidt
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- Congratulations to Michael Schmidt—our recipient of the 2021 Shot Peener of the Year award. Since 1992, The Shot Peener magazine has recognized individuals for their contributions to the sho...
- The 2021 Workshop
- Year: 2022, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 36, Issue 1, Winter 2022
- THE 29TH Electronics Inc. Shot Peening and Blast Cleaning Workshop and Trade Show was a success. I think everyone was happy to return to this level of normalcy in our industry. One of my favorite asp...
- Clemco Employee Refurbishing a Half-Century-Old ZERO Blast Cabinet
- Year: 2021, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 35, Issue 4, Fall 2021
- “It needs a makeover, new gloves, and a new view window,†says Clemco Quality Assurance Inspector Eric Brukerhoff of his new ZERO® BNP-270 Blast Cabinet, “but then it will be r...
- Grand Opening of New Toyo Seiko North America Facility
- Year: 2021, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 35, Issue 4, Fall 2021
- TOYO SEIKO NORTH AMERICA celebrated the opening of their 25,200 square foot facility this July. The company has been located in South Bend, Indiana, USA for several years but due to its growth in N...
- Empire Introduces One-Piece Flow Systems
- Year: 2021, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 35, Issue 4, Fall 2021
- EMPIRE ABRASIVE EQUIPMENT has launched two automated blast systems—the SPF 3830 System and the SPF 2424 System—that offer the benefits of automated air blasting at an attractive price...
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