Not the greatest video, I found the super bouncy young guy super annoying, but maybe that's just me. It does give you some idea of what Thermal Spray is (Wikipedia page).
I get an occasional newsletter from Thermal Spray Guy and this video was included. The newsletter opens with this list:
There is a wide range of thermal spray applications that are commonly known:
- Corrosion protection for bridges
- Dimensional restoration of diesel engine blocks and heads
- Thermal barrier coatings on aerospace turbine blades
- CP titanium and hydroxyapatite bone growth alloys for medical implants
- Ceramic materials for electrical insulation applications
Most of those are beyond me, but "Dimensional restoration of diesel engine blocks and heads", that's something I can wrap my head around. With all the equipment, knowledge and experience needed to perform such work, it's not something you would want to try in your garage. If you had an expensive engine that needed such work, and there was a competent thermal spray shop within driving distance, it could be viable solution.
That axle that Wes was working on could have used some of it, except even attempting to repair it didn't pencil out.
2 comments:
search youtube for Cutting Edge Engineering. He's done two videos using thermal spray repair (one successful and one not).
Huh, somebody out there besides me interested in oddball mechanista stuff. Who'd a thunk it?
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