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Guidelines for re-use of stainless shot on critical components?

Metallurgically + cost wise + No of times reusable ...

How far it is viable to use the stainless steel shot in the critical automobile components like braking system?

Kamesh Lakshmi Narasimhan
purchase engg - Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
2003

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The main purpose of any blast system is to clean or remove an oxidized surface as a pretreatment for a coating. The more uniform the surface the more uniform the coating and/or appearance. Therefore, most blast systems are designed to use a uniform size and grade or blasting media and the system normally has a purge type dust collection system designed to remove a specific partical size as well as the material/oxide being worked. Media hardness and/or the crystal structure is normally the factor that determines how many times a material can be used; however, the hardness of the parts being worked and the air blast pressure also relates to that re-use. All of this means that we are talking about a variable factor.

AF Kenton
retired business owner - Hatboro, Pennsylvania
2003