Proper care of personal protective equipment can mean the difference between life and death for firefighters. Chapter 7 of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1851 standard sets the requirements for proper cleaning and decontamination of gear. Meeting these standards presents a challenge. Gear cannot be taken home and placed in a firefighter’s washer and […]
Ultrasonic Cleaning Frequencies – 40 kHz
The last time we talked, we discussed how ultrasonic cleaning frequencies and how ultrasonic cleaning is used throughout the industrial world to remove a variety of contaminants ranging from dust to metal chips to carbon fibers to oil to baked-on polymers. There is not a “One Frequency Fits All” out there. Effective cleaning requires choosing […]
Ultrasonic Cleaning Frequencies – 25 kHz
Ultrasonic cleaning is used throughout the industrial world to remove a variety of contaminants ranging from dust to metal chips to carbon fibers to oil to baked-on polymers. This variety of contamination requires a variety of cleaning frequencies to choose from to optimize cleaning performance. There is not a “One Frequency Fits All” out there. […]
The 2013 Baseball Predictions Create Fire Damage
Call the fire department! The Washington Nationals will be leaving a lot of fire damage in their wake as they burn their way back to the National League East title in 2013. With a little extra heat to ignite a fire under this team, the Nats could blaze a trail into the playoffs and rocket […]
Shop Sends Manual Labor Down the Tubes
American Machinist, May 2006 Download Shop Sends Manual Labor Down the Tubes PDF. Ultrasonic cleaning systems help Eaton Aerospace meet stringent quality standards. Customers of Eaton Aerospace (www.aerospase.eaton.com) in Jackson, Mich., are quite fussy about how the tubing produced by the shop looks. The tubing goes into aircraft such as the Airbus 380, the F-22 Raptor and […]