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  1. luckymix

    Material for Steam Valve Spindles

    Hi Gordon F, Greetings. Have you used specially grain orientated forgings for such applications? And when you say successful, what sort of time frames have your spindles been in service? Have they bent slightly after excessive use? Stop valves or governor/control valves? have you tried...
  2. luckymix

    Grinding allowance for gas nitriding

    Greetings, A high tolerance sleeve with a pin that runs in it, the ID is approx 170mm with H7 fit i.e. + 40um, - 0. The sleeve finish is Good/ smooth. Good quality nitridable steel. Can one go to final size and then gas nitride? Or I imagine ones should leave a grinding/ polishing...
  3. luckymix

    Freezing cheese

    Hi, am doing a couple of tests with some blocks but am also intrigued at the engineering approach to take- shouldnt be diffcult, if somehow you get an approx thermal coefficient and capacity? This is my gut feel, so putting out the bait. Thanks for input.
  4. luckymix

    Freezing cheese

    Greetings- an interesting but very real one- especially if you are the cheese producer & your product is delivered by a large logistics company!! Frozen cheese- is not a good thing- dries out! 300g of cheese similar to cheddar (could be approximated as water??) at 2C. Put into a large fridge...
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    flushing & cleaning of Gas Turbine Oil Systems

    Greetings. Can anyone admise whether ASME LOS-4C1 is worth procuring at considerable cost as a reference to help us conducting such the above procedure on a 4.5MW IGT- i.e. is it a practical guide that would add value to the exercise? The document I have a quote for is a 1971 Revision. Thx.

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