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Edward Lowton
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Automated finishing system
24 May 2013
Installation of an automated surface-finishing system with a pair of custom-built Hodge Clemco blast cabinets is reported to have improved production of rotor coils for turbo-generators at the Loughborough factory of Brush Electrical Machines.
Linked to an automatic feed system designed by Rotary Engineering, as well as the blast cabinets and feed conveyor, the system incorporates abrasive hopper, abrasive cleaning and dust collection equipment in a single integrated unit.
The cabinets use a suction blast system that propels abrasive through 12 nozzles at all four sides of the area on each component where the oxidisation is present. A wide variety of media can be used. Abrasive volume and speed are precisely controllable, and an 1800cfm reclaim unit linked to a dust collector automatically collects used abrasive and grades it for re-use or disposal.
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