A rotary snow plow is 16 feet of rotating blades attached to a locomotive for clearing deep snow from railroad tracks.
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One Minute Mentor: Tool Steel Tempering Practices
Multiple tempering is effective in decreasing the amount of austenite retained in A and D steels and is a common practice in heat-treating them.
Ipsen AvaC two-chamber gas/oil furnace doubles carbon availability
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped an AvaC (acetylene vacuum carburizing) two-chamber gas/oil quench vacuum furnace to a facility in Connecticut where it will be used to process sports equipment.
Leco hardness testing system includes advanced image recognition
Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the AMH55 hardness testing system with advanced image-recognition technology, which allows analysis of information not available with limited threshold-based methods.
High-strength magnesium-lithium alloy weighs half as much as aluminum
The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4 g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.