Don’t miss your opportunity to cash in on the Section 179 Deduction. Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct up to the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the 2012 tax year. That means that if you buy or lease a piece of qualifying equipment, …
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Shot Peening: An Introduction
Shotpeening is a cold working process used to improve the characteristics of metal parts. The basic premise is that small, round media are directed at a part to create dimples on the surface which puts the outer layer of the metal into compression and effectively prevents fatigue failure and stress corrosion cracking. Correctly creating these …
Proper Abrasive Levels in Blast Machines
Maintaining proper abrasive levels in your blast equipment is crucial to keeping operating costs low and productivity high. Often times, blast equipment operators believe they can save money by not keeping the blast machine hoppers full of abrasive. What drives this thinking? A false impression of cost savings is created when, by not continually introducing …
How Much Does it Cost to Operate a Shot Blast Machine?
This literally is, in many cases, the illusive $64,000 question! But in reality, it’s not all that difficult to generally estimate the operating costs of a typical machine. You just have to know how, and MetFin wants to be your source for this kind of important knowledge. The overarching principle of this exercise is to …
Shotblast Batch Barrels: How Full is Full?
This question is one of the most frequently asked by operators of batch type cleaning machines, most commonly called a “tumble blast” or “barrel blast” machine, of which there are probably more in operation than any other style of blast cleaning machine in the market. Tumble blast machines employ either an endless rubber belt or …
Abrasive Media Options
If your operation is using a centrifugal blast machine for surface cleaning or shot peening, you owe it to yourself to consider using cut wire shot for surface prep applications. Based on the finish required from your shot blast operation, you can choose several different types of abrasive media to achieve your desired result. The …
Maximizing Your CNC Plasma Cutting Investment
CNC plasma cutters can be more accurate and less expensive to operate when blast cleaning is integrated into the pre-cutting process.
The Right Timing for Capital Investment
Capturing Opportunity Costs “If you don’t buy the tool you need, you will eventually pay for it, but not have your tool.” – Henry Ford It’s never easy to know when the ideal moment is to make large capital investments in equipment. Is the risk going to pay off? Is this the right time to commit funds? …
Recent Installations
MetFin recently installed the following machines: Cincinnati, Ohio, Production Descaler at a sheet steel blast and paint contracting facility Gilmer, Texas, Six Foot Batch Barrel at an electrical components manufacturing plant Lynnwood, Washington, Monorail Blast System for a structural steel fabricator Olds, Alberta, Canada, Six foot Batch Barrel at a plant that manufactures oilfields drilling …