Most of what gets written about boiler layup assumes a big boiler. Thousands of gallons, a maintenance crew, a planned outage with a work order behind it. That is not the boiler that rusts in most Midwest plants. The one that rusts is the small package boiler in the...
If you build engines, you already know the problem even if you have never put a name to it. The engine runs on the hot test stand, it passes, it gets drained, and it goes to the yard or into a container. Weeks or months later it comes back out with rust inside a...
The hidden cost of shipping parts in oil Most machined and stamped parts still leave the plant the way they did forty years ago: dipped or sprayed with a rust preventative oil, dropped in a poly bag or a wax paper wrap, and boxed. It works, but it moves a job...
Working is not the same as right Cortec’s tip of the month in August was aimed at its own customers, and it is blunt: if you use VCI packaging or rust preventative chemicals, have your process evaluated even if it is working 100 percent, because there are newer...
Every VCI Pouch Says It Protects 35 Cubic Feet. Very Few Show the Test. If you have ever specified a vapor corrosion inhibitor pouch for a crate, a control cabinet or a sealed tote, you have run into the same problem: every product on the market publishes a cubic-foot...
Watch the process first Cortec put out a one-minute demonstration of the packaging routine we recommend to every shop that ships machined, stamped or remanufactured metal parts. It is short enough to show a packer on the floor, and it covers the three things that...
