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Blast room installed
04 August 2015
Wabtec Rail, specialist in overhaul and repair of railway rolling stock, has increased capacity for servicing wheel-sets at its South Yorkshire premises with the installation of a second self-contained Hodge Clemco blast-room with automatic abrasive recovery.
Wheel-sets are delivered to the blast-room on rail tracks that integrates with a pneumatic manipulator, allowing them to be moved to a convenient position for cleaning with a high-production direct-pressure unit, using aluminium oxide abrasive.
The room incorporates a 4m x 3m work chamber with double doors at both ends and a plant room containing a blast machine, media recovery system and control panel. Walls and roof are double-skin steel panels filled with mineral wool, reducing noise levels, while the floor is constructed from steel plate with gratings through which used abrasive falls and is recovered. The material passes to a cleaning system that extracts re-usable media and feeds it to a hopper serving the blast machine.
