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Metal sprayers cut time to repair
A combination of orbital machining and thermal spraying have been used to avoid the need to replace the drive shaft on a key piece of food-processing equipment.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 August 2006
Drilling expertise enables naval repairs
Metalock Engineering UK's expertise in deep hole drilling in-situ is not frequently called for but recently it has been put to the test on a Royal Navy ice patrol and research vessel.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 April 2005
Cast iron repair technology safeguards rail bridge
Broken cast iron lips that hold parapet panels in place on a Grade II listed railway bridge at Codsall in South Staffordshire have been repaired by Metalock Engineering.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 July 2003
Die repairs put Toyota bodies back online
By responding quickly to a request from Toyota UK to repair a fractured body panel die, Metalock Engineering enabled the pressing line to get back into operation with minimum downtime.
News from Engineeringtalk, 18 March 2003
Refurbishment beats replacement for Anglian Water
Metalock Engineering has recently overhauled a 25 year old 12in Allen Gwynne mixed flow bowl pump that Anglian Water Supplies used for surface water drainage.
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 January 2003
Stitching saves listed bridge
Metalock Engineering has been using its cast iron metal stitching expertise to repair and refurbish the Old West Bridge that carries three lanes of traffic out of the centre of Leicester.
News from Engineeringtalk, 24 December 2002
In situ regrinding reduces downtime for Curtis
Metalock Engineering has enabled Curtis Fine Papers to put its machines back into production in quick-time and resume production of high quality uncoated printing, writing and security papers.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 September 2002
In-situ machining extends turbine compressor life
Metalock Engineering has recently remachined two rows of stator blade dovetail slots of a 160MW gas turbine to restore the design dimensions enabling the blades to be properly secured.
News from Engineeringtalk, 1 August 2002
In-situ machining keeps china clay kiln running
To eliminate the risk of a cracked casing on one of its china clay drying kilns, Imerys Minerals called on Metalock Engineering to in-situ machine one of the tyres on a 41 year old kiln.
News from Engineeringtalk, 2 July 2002
Machining aids steel production
In-situ machining as part of a plant refurbishment has helped a Spanish steel producer to substantially improve product quality and thickness tolerance.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 May 2002
Boring work on new naval trimaran
RV Triton, the research vessel conceived, designed and owned by QinetiQ is currently undergoing extensive sea trials.
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 April 2002
Big Bertha moves in to repair in situ
Metalock has designed and built an extensive array of specialist machines for on-site working, latest of which is a 12m-long boring bar for in-situ turbine machining applications, dubbed Big Bertha.
News from Engineeringtalk, 18 February 2002
Metal stitching helps to restore bridge in Dublin
As part of the restoration of the Ha'Penny Bridge (the Liffey Bridge) across the River Liffey in Dublin, metal stitching techniques were used to repaired the damaged parts
News from Engineeringtalk, 1 February 2002
In-situ machining resores mill for Corus
Metalock Engineering carried out extensive in-situ machining work at Corus, Port Talbot, to restore the reversing roughing mill to its original manufacturing tolerance
News from Engineeringtalk, 27 November 2001
Metal stitching repairs cracks in giant kiln
Problems with a series of cracks on one of Elementis Chromium's kilns have been overcome by Metalock Engineering using its metal stitching process to secure infill plates into the windows
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 October 2001
Rolling larger slabs in Sweden
Upgrades by Metalock Engineering to a 1500mm Swedish hot mill has allowed it to roll 10-tonne slabs instead of 6-tonners, giving a significant rise in output
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 September 2001
Metal stitching used to repair historic bridge
When a Grade II Star listed cast iron bridge developed fractures, Metalock Engineering was asked to investigate and decide if its Metalock metal stitching repair would be a viable proposition
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 August 2001
Cold repair of cracks at London memorial
Metalock Engineering was called in early in the restoration programme of London's Albert memorial to assess whether the Metalock process could be successfully used to repair the damaged castings
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 June 2001
New MD for Metalock Industrial Services
Metalock Industrial Services, which specialises in the repair of cracked and broken castings and precision on-site machining, has appointed Dave Sexton as Managing Director.
News from Engineeringtalk, 23 May 2001
Vertical pump on FSO restored to working condition
Metalock Engineering has recently restored a vertical pump, used for the transfer of sweet crude on a Marathon Oil floating storage and offloading vessel operating off the West Coast of Africa
News from Engineeringtalk, 14 May 2001
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