Ammunition corrodes like any other metal assembly, only with higher stakes A loaded cartridge is a small multimetal package: a brass or brass-plated steel case, a copper or copper-alloy jacket, a steel or lead core, a primer cup and a crimp. Store it in a humid...
Two case histories, one method Cortec published two pieces in recent weeks that describe the same preservation method applied to very different assets. One is an article on protecting turbines during transport, layup and outdoor storage, with field results from three...
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...
The question we get about outdoor preservation is never whether the film keeps rain off. It is whether the wrap will still be there after a season of Midwest wind, ice and sun, or whether somebody will drive past the yard in March and find blue plastic in the fence...
Five bags off the internet, one pass Pink poly is the default answer for shipping anything with a circuit board in it. It is cheap, it is pink, and it says antistatic on the box. Cortec’s film plant ordered five pink poly antistatic bags from online sellers and...
A build-ahead is the packaging engineer’s worst assignment. The plant is going to build months or years of product in advance, put it in a warehouse nobody is going to heat or dehumidify, and expect every unit to roll onto the assembly line later without a rust...
