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EXAIR’s Turboblast Safety Air Gun – As Powerful as Olympic Weightlifters?

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As a competitive powerlifter, I’m always excited to watch Weightlifting during the Summer Olympics. While the lifts themselves differ from power lifting competitions, it never ceases to amaze me how powerful some of the lifters are. Regardless of which style of lifting you participate in, one thing always rings true – consistency is key! That’s why here at EXAIR we’re committed to providing high-quality products that are shipped from stock the sameday. If there’s one thing you know you can always count on with EXAIR, it’s consistency. In every year of my tenure here (over 14 years), we’ve achieved a 99.8% or better on-time shipping rate, with the lone exception being during the COVID pandemic in 2020.

Olympic weightlifters aren’t the only ones generating power this week. EXAIR’s Turboblast Safety Air Guns are helping customers in facilities all over the world handle tough applications. When power is of the utmost concern regarding a blowoff, the Turboblast Safety Air Gun is the ideal fit – offering up to 23lbs of force with our largest nozzle.

See for yourself on video as the gun easily blows a large adjustable crescent wrench across the shop floor with ease:

Each Turboblast gun is also available with an optional adjustable gate valve. If the application requires a bit more “fine-tuning” than just a standard on/off, the adjustable gate valve can allow the operator to make finite adjustments on-the-fly without having to adjust the air pressure supplied upstream.

Now through the end of September, we’re running our Safety Air Gun Promotion. Order any Turboblast (or other air gun) and receive a free 1” Flat Super Air Nozzle. Get in touch with an Application Engineer today to discuss how we can help improve the efficiency in your blowoff processes.

Tyler Daniel, CCASS

Application Engineer

E-mail: TylerDaniel@EXAIR.com

X: @EXAIR_TD

Image courtesy of TheDigitalArtist via Pixabay Creative Commons License

Traditions & Opening Day

Published on by Brian FarnoLeave a comment

I’m sure wherever you live, the closest city that has a major league baseball team has a big to-do list centered around their opening day. Here in Cincinnati, it is very close to a holiday tradition for locals. We have friends who take off work and still take their teenage kids to the parade and take in all the festivities as part of an annual tradition. We can’t see the parade from our building in the Northeast corner of Cincinnati, and we don’t close because we pride ourselves on delivering shipments on time and when a customer needs, that speaks to the traditions that we honor.

Whenever you call in during business hours of 0700 – 1600 ET, you will be greeted by a real human, not some automated voice attendant that you have to guess which button to push or what to say to get to a real human. On top of that, we have an entire team of Application Engineers who are all trained across all of our product lines and will help to determine the best solutions for you and your team. We also pride ourselves on the ability to ship stock products on the same day for orders received by 2 PM ET. To top that off, we honor a 30-day guarantee on stock products shipped within the US and Canada.

This means if the product you receive doesn’t meet your expectations, our team will help you determine how to get it to exceed the need and if it cannot, then we will also walk you through the return process. This is on top of our 5-year built-to-last warranty on compressed air products ensuring their quality from material and workmanship defects. (1-year warranty for electronic components)

If you want to talk to a real person and start a relationship with a company that is going to help you get to the solutions you need in order to improve your process, contact an Application Engineer today!

Brian Farno, MBA – CCASS Application Engineer

BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

Where Was I 14 Years Ago Today?

Published on by Brian FarnoLeave a comment

This morning was like most other mornings for me.   I woke up and got ready, my wife had just finished feeding our youngest daughter when I was getting ready to leave.   This is a little out of the norm as they are typically still sleeping, since she was in the kitchen when I was going to leave I gave her a kiss and a hug and it was one that just felt like it was really needed.   I hadn’t put much more thought into it, and headed on in to the office.   On my way in I stopped to pick up some morning snacks for the crew here and came on in to the office.   Still, nothing really struck me about today.

In a meeting this morning Bryan Peters mentioned that it was in a meeting just like the one we were in at pretty close to the same time when the first plane hit 14 years ago.  It is a memory that everyone with EXAIR 14 years ago remembers because someone brought a TV in from home and they placed it in the center of the office to try and learn what was happening. A very familiar setting as all of us throughout the country.

3322 Jefferson Ave.
3322 Jefferson Ave.

That made me think of where I was on this day 14 years ago.   I was Sophomore at University of Cincinnati and had just left a class, I was heading back to the fraternity house that I was living in. On the walk back I got a message from a good friend asking if I was okay and if I had seen what was happening.  Once I got to the house I went straight to the loft and turned on the TV. I sat and watched the news coverage with the few of us that were there at that time. t more messages and calls from friends on my phone asking if I had heard.   It still was something I couldn’t wrap my head around.

On that day I will always remember the first person who contacted me and not knowing what was going on.  I have been to the 9/11 site since then but it was before the memorial opened.   Even though it was years after that horrific day there were still memorials surrounding the construction site.
When 9/11 was mentioned this morning I got to see each person I was surrounded by begin to relive that day in their own minds and think of where they were.   Even though I wasn’t at the same place they where and I didn’t even know any of them, we all shared the same thoughts.

My thoughts and prayers still go out to the people that lost their lives on that day, and their families.  And I continue to honor and respect the brave service men and women that choose to protect our freedom as we go about our daily routines.

Never Forget!

Brian Farno
Application Engineer Manager
BrianFarno@EXAIR.com
@EXAIR_BF

Memorial Day

Published on by Russ BowmanLeave a comment

It all started the year after I bought my house. My next door neighbor – a Vietnam-era veteran, Honor Flight Guardian, and the best neighbor ever – bought a bunch of American flags & poles, and asked if it would be OK to put them out along the sidewalk in front of our houses to observe the upcoming Independence Day holiday…he had enough to go all the way to the corner of our street. We all thought it was a fantastic idea. And it was just the start.

The following year, just before Memorial Day, as Monty raised the flags down our street, another row popped up around the corner. And, come Fourth of July, there were more. Now, every sidewalk in our neighborhood is decorated every Memorial Day and Independence Day, at 10- to 12-foot intervals (to be fair, nobody published a standard, so it is what it is) with the Stars and Stripes.

I DO love this neighborhood.
I DO love this neighborhood.

Memorial Day, is, of course, the day that we honor the sacrifice of those who gave their lives for the great country that my awesome little neighborhood is part & parcel of. And honor it we will. There will be parades with marching bands and floats. Veteran’s groups will perform ceremonies and vigils. Military aircraft will perform fly-overs at ballgames & special events. Monty will set the flags down our sidewalk. And most of us will enjoy a long weekend.

I’ve seen a lot of posts on social media, reminding us of the meaning of Memorial Day, “in case you thought it was national grill-out day, just another 3-day weekend, etc.” It’s a good reminder; that much is true. But we can honor their sacrifice in celebration too. This weekend, dear reader, I encourage you to light up the grill. Go see some fireworks. Bicycle around the neighborhood (or further) with your kids.  Go camping. Sleep in. Stay up late. Spend time with friends and family. These things are the way of life that our heroes fought and died for, right?

But in the midst of whatever you do, remember them: From the Minutemen who fell at Lexington & Concord, to those who didn’t make it home from the recent campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.  May God bless them all, and those they left behind.

In closing, as a former submariner, I am also reminded of the ninety-nine members of the crew of USS Scorpion (SSN-589,) which was lost 47 years ago today (presumed, based on last communications.)

Sailors, rest your oars.
Sailors, rest your oars.

Please enjoy your Memorial Day weekend.  It’s been paid for dearly.

Russ Bowman
Application Engineer
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Memorial Day 2013 image courtesy of Tony Alter.  Creative Commons License