From time to time, cleaning of an EXAIR Air Knife may be necessary. Watch the video below for a walk through of the cleaning procedure.
Lee Evans
Application Engineer
LeeEvans@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_LE
Month: October 2015
A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words
I’m old enough to remember doing business before we had the internet, but I swear I don’t remember how I (or anyone else) ever got anything done. The ability to share details and information, in real time, is a hallmark of the way business is conducted in the 21st Century.
Now, to be fair, we’ve been able to immediately send written data (spec sheets, operation instructions, etc.) for a long time, via fax machines. Curiously, this technology predates the invention of the telephone, believe it or not. It just didn’t work well at all with photographs, though…I recall trying it several times, and actually having it work once: someone put a small part directly on the glass of the copier (much to the chagrin of the office manager) and faxed the resultant image to me.
Nowadays, we just snap a picture with a smart phone camera and email it. In fact, EXAIR Application Engineers do this at least a couple of times a day. In fact, just this morning, I had the pleasure of helping a customer get a replacement muffler for one of our Vortex Tube Spot Cooling Products…one that they purchased about 25 years ago. I was a little curious to know, however, what condition of the rest of the device was in. The customer sent me an email with photos, which showed a 25 year old EXAIR Component Cooler in REMARKABLE condition…except for the muffler, which was showing some corrosion due to recent operation with some moisture in the air supply (due to the undetected failure of an upstream dryer.) The nice thing about digital photos is, I could also tell that the o-ring used to install the muffler was also in need of replacement…something we’d have never been able to tell from a fax of an image, taken from a copier.
Within about a half an hour, we were processing an order for a muffler and o-ring that they’ll have tomorrow, and their 25 year old Vortex Tube product will be running like new. Just like the ones shown near the end of this video (you will see that back in the day, we used two x’s in our name):
Every day, EXAIR Application Engineers prove that a picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words…and videos might just be worth a thousand pictures. If you’d like help with a compressed air product application, or an existing compressed air product, let us know.
Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
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Vac-u-Gun Increases Production and Eliminates Mess
I recently took a call from a customer who was looking for a way to increase the production in their bean bag chair and pillow filling application. They currently have an operator use a scoop and manually take the polystyrene pellets out of a bag to fill the chairs and pillows. This process was time consuming, tedious and messy. Since they were only looking to move the material a short distance, they were considering using our Light Duty Line Vac but were hoping for something that could be more easily controlled. Our Vac-u-Gun is a great solution for this customer because it is a hand held, trigger operated solution that will provide the control they desired. The Vac-u-Gun is a versatile product that can be used to efficiently transfer bulk material, evacuate a vessel or used as a blow gun. By changing the orientation of the nozzle insert in the Vac-u-Gun it will provide positive pressure (for blow off or cleaning) or negative pressure (vacuum) which is the position best suited for transferring these polystyrene pellets.
For this particular application, the customer ordered our Model # 6292 Transfer System which includes the Vac-u-Gun, 10′ of vacuum hose and some additional tools. This allowed them to easily transfer the material and by making it a closed system with the vacuum hose, eliminated the mess they were seeing with their current process.
With our extensive offering, there may be several products to fit your particular application. Call one of our application engineers for assistance in making the best selection.
Justin Nicholl
Application Engineer
justinnicholl@exair.com
@EXAIR_JN
Efficiency Lab Provides Specific Benefits
This weekend, myself and many others are going to be participating in an event held all over the country, the Go Ruck Light event. This test of toughness (mental and physical) is put on by former military personnel and it is based around one of the things they do a lot of at the beginning of their military training. This is a 7 to 10 mile event that will take up to 4 hours to complete. It is not like a race or any other obstacle event that we have ever done. This is an event where the leader, or Cadre, will lead you through the miles and many physical exercises along the way all while carrying a 20 lb weight in a ruck sack on your back. This not only tests individuals but it also requires the entire group to work as a team to ensure everyone finishes and everyone is together.
While I feel that I am under-prepared for this event physically, my mind is prepared to find out just how much I really can do and it will be at the end of the test that I realize the benefits.
Not many of the tasks I am responsible for at EXAIR require that kind of physical toughness and some of them require the mental toughness. But one instance I am always prepared for is the customer that calls and thinks they have the weirdest application and that there is nothing to solve it. We actually have this experience quite a bit and it helps make what we do more interesting and fun. With our diverse background and extensive knowledge, chances are we have experienced the application or we have seen something that is very close. This helps us to be specific when recommending a solution.
EXAIR feels that the best solutions can also provide information on air and dollar savings as well. The best savings information can be provided if our customers are willing to provide us details about their current application, and there is no better way to provide us the details than to take advantage of our Efficiency Lab. It is a free service letting you to send in a sample of your current blowoff product (typically homemade nozzles, open tube or pipe, snap together coolant hose, etc.), in return we will test it for you with our calibrated equipment and provide you a detailed report on air volume, force and noise. Then you will know the specific benefits of your recommended solution.
The fact is, we go into every conversation with the mentality of only providing solutions. If we can’t provide it, we will try to direct you to someone that can.
Brian Farno
Application Engineer Manager
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF