Why chose wet blasting for jet engine NDT preparation?
Combustion deposits, heat scale and carbon left in a fir tree slot can hide the very defect your inspection exists to find. The Vapormatt Leopard Cub prepares jet engine components for non-destructive testing (NDT) automatically, with every parameter recorded.
Why chose wet blasting for NDT preparation?
Dry blasting can peen the surface, closing cracks before the inspector ever sees them. Wet blasting flows. Water-carried media moves through blade roots, disc bores and cooling holes, opening crack faces for penetrant entry. No peening risk, no dust, no ATEX requirement and no separate degreasing stage.
Wet blasting is written into the specifications of Rolls-Royce, Pratt and Whitney, GE and Airbus.
What the Leopard Cub brings
A 6-axis robot or oscillation configuration gives every part identical preparation. A patented micro nozzle reaches features conventional nozzles cannot. Vapormatt 4.0 logs slurry pressure, air pressure and abrasive concentration to support your NADCAP and OEM documentation.
Every machine is backed by the 'Vapormatt Promise' that it will perform to the specification agreed with you. That includes factory acceptance testing with your own components before it leaves us.
Missed defects and re-inspections start at the surface. Give your inspectors one they can trust.
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