Finishing for aerospace parts.
Turbine blades, manifolds, and structural fasteners need a uniform, low-stress surface that improves fatigue life and passes inspection. Centrifugal finishing produces an isotropic finish in every direction that hand polishing cannot match batch to batch.
What shops finish in this space.
If your part is not on this list, it probably still fits. Ask Kevin.
- Turbine and compressor blades
- Manifolds and housings
- Structural fasteners
- Bushings and bearings
Aerospace shops, in their words.
These machines are in use 20 hours a day and are dependable to perform at a very high level for the processes that they were designed. Whenever a need for service arises on these machines, Richwood's repair technicians are on site within a day's time.
Their reliable equipment and awesome service has always been a rescuer in difficult situations... Even over the weekends they have been there for Avibank to get our equipment up and running... When it comes to service and reliability, with no doubt, I recommend Richwood Surface Tech., Inc. over any other company.
Aerospace questions, answered.
Yes. The figure-8 motion finishes parts evenly on every axis, so the result is consistent lot to lot, which hand polishing is not. The CV8-600 is built for work where the finish itself is the spec.
An isotropic finish removes directional tool marks and leaves a low-stress surface, which is why it is used to improve fatigue life on rotating and load-bearing parts.
Send us a part. We finish it.
We will run it in the actual machine and send it back, before you commit.