Cleaning Facilities

1 – 28-cubic-foot Wheelabrator Tumblast tumble blast
1 – 15-cubic-foot Wheelabrator Tumblast tumble blast
1 – Spinning hanger blast
1 – Blast cabinet; aluminum oxide, grit blast
5 – Weld stations; SMAW, FCAW, GTAW
3 – Burning stations
5 – Arc air stations
2 – Plasma torches
11 – Finishing stations (chip and grind)
3 – Inspection stations featuring SCRATA plates for visual inspection

Straightening Presses

1 – 200-ton vertical hydraulic press

Heat Treating (Quench and Temper) Equipment

1 – Car-bottom normalizing furnace (20-ton capacity); Class 5 furnace at 1,850°F and Class 2 furnace at 1,250°F.
1 – Pass-through “pusher furnace”; Class 5 furnace at 1,850°F (direct access to water quench)
2 – Tempering ovens; both Class 2 furnaces at 1,250°F
1 – Gas-box heat-treat furnace; Class 5 furnace at 2,200°F
2 – Welding and cutting preheat furnaces
1 – Water quench with high-velocity agitation and precise temperature-monitoring controls

NDT Services

1 – Ultrasonic flaw detection
4 – AC/DC Magnaflux stations (dry)
1 – Wet fluorescent magnetic particle inspection station
5 – Portable magnetic particle inspection yokes
1 – Bendix portage layout table (computer assisted)
1 – King portable Brinell tester
1 – Tinius Olsen 3,000 kg Brinell tester
1 – Newage portable Brinell tester
1 – LEEB hardness tester
*X-ray facilities available at local vendor
1 – Liquid penetrant testing station

Metallurgical Laboratory

All chemical, physical, and mechanical testing done on-site

All machining of test specimens done on-site
CNC machining center
Jominy end quench testing facilities
Hardenability testing of material
Complete metallographic capabilities
Complete sand-testing lab capable of performing following tests/analyses:

• Sieve analysis
• Loss on ignition
• Tensile
• Moisture
• Density

Equipment

1 – Baird Model DV-4 vacuum spectrometer, computer assisted, low/high-alloy capability, 20 channels
1 – Rockwell hardness testers, B and C scale
1 – Tinius Olsen tensile testing machine

Melting Equipment

2 – 4-ton Inductotherm Dual Trak induction furnaces; built-in load cells
2 – 2-ton Inductotherm Steel Shell induction furnaces
All induction furnaces plumbed and utilize EGAL (argon shrouding)
All induction furnaces plumbed for porous plug technology (copper-based alloys)

Pouring

Overhead crane scales for pouring accuracy
All T-Pot pouring ladles from 1,000 to 4,000 lbs.
Overhead crane

Full-Service Pattern Shop

• Band saws
• Planers
• Table saws
• Drill presses

Shakeout

Tinker Omega reclamation system and sand cooler

Molding

1 – Tinker Omega 550
1 – Tinker Omega 350
1 – Tinker Omega 60

All sand-mixing equipment equipped with:

• Smart Gate sand gates
• Sand heaters
• Mass flow resin pump controls
• Programmable interface with 99 programs
• Programmable sand additive interface

Mold Line

• Mold compaction tables
• Mold roll-overs
• Pass-through mold drying oven
• Mold manipulators