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Lubricants
News Release from: Castrol UK | Subject: Variocut WCW
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 25 March 2003
Green paste keeps it clean
A new environmentally friendly synthetic tapping paste is cleaning up for machine operators and welders at subcontract engineering company Weldtek Engineering.
Castrol Variocut WCW - a new environmentally friendly synthetic tapping paste - is cleaning up for machine operators and welders at Weldtek Engineering, a subcontract engineering company offering CNC, conventional machining, welding and fabricating services The machine shop operates three CNC mills, two CNC lathes and a number of conventional machine tools to produce a wide variety of components for the medical, analytical and radioactive monitoring industries, as well as prototypes and one-off projects for the local research establishments of the UKAEA and AEA Technology
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 27 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Explaining the reasons for the change, Roy Jones the proprietor of Weldtek says: "The conventional tapping paste we were using produced pungent smells during machining operations, which led to some health and safety concerns among the machine operators".
"After machining, components such as vacuum assemblies with a lot of tapped holes required degreasing with alcohol and other means before the welding operation.
If they weren't completely clean the fumes given off when heat was applied was a concern for the welders, even with the extractors being used".
The switch to Variocut WCW, which is free from sulphur, chlorine and heavy metals, produced instant improvements.
"It is cleaner, has a pleasant smell and keeps both work pieces and machines clean", reports Jones, "and because it is water soluble it doesn't need degreasing, which saves a cleaning operation, and saves time and money".
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