MicroBlasting Technologies for Aerospace Applications
Our MicroBlasting Systems are used to texture, deburr, clean, etch, and cut a wide variety of materials—even the most delicate. We’ll work closely with you to land on custom solutions for your aerospace engineering and manufacturing needs.
What can be achieved with MicroBlasting?
Our MicroBlasting technologies and engineering expertise have helped our clients solve an array of challenges in the aerospace field from precision deburring of fuel splines, and gears, to etching precision grooves into the surface of a seal to create an air bearing in a hydrodynamic seal and turbine regeneration.
55+
Years
We have over 55 years of experience in perfecting MicroBlasting technologies and partnering with clients to help them solve their unique manufacturing challenges.
2.3k
Assets sold across 600+ customers in the aerospace industry
We’ve worked with 600+ customers in the aerospace industry, and faced many of the engineering challenges they deal with on a daily basis.
2–200
Microns
Our equipment can remove a wide range of coating thicknesses from 2 to 200 microns, and +/- 1/2 micron machining depth tolerance.
Surface Alteration & Material Removal on Aerospace Parts
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Surface Texturing
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Coating Removal
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Precision Deburring
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Abrasive Jet Machining
Texturing load cells for bond adhesion
Multi-axis load cells measure force and torque in six dimensions
Surface Texturing from the Blog
Need to Improve Bond Strength?
Are you solely specifying Ra to determine bond strength? Do you see variation in pull or peel tests? We find that specifying Ra alone rarely provides a comprehensive understanding of a surface’s bonding potential. To improve bond strength, incorporate developed surface ratio (Sdr) and full coverage into your specification. Here’s why…
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Need a consistent and repeatable surface finish?
What do you include in your surface finish specification? Abrasive type and size? Blast pressure? Anything else? Like the majority of first-time MicroBlasting users, you might stop at those points. Unfortunately, this limited outline opens the door to inconsistent surface finish results.
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How to calculate stempover and get a uniform surface finish
“Where did these stripes come from?” This is a question we hear in automated texturing and etching applications. Most customers want to avoid creating a barber-pole or stripe pattern on their part surface.
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Need to Improve Bond Strength?
Are you solely specifying Ra to determine bond strength? Do you see variation in pull or peel tests? We find that specifying Ra alone rarely provides a comprehensive understanding of a surface’s bonding potential. To improve bond strength, incorporate developed surface ratio (Sdr) and full coverage into your specification. Here’s why…
Read More
Need a consistent and repeatable surface finish?
What do you include in your surface finish specification? Abrasive type and size? Blast pressure? Anything else? Like the majority of first-time MicroBlasting users, you might stop at those points. Unfortunately, this limited outline opens the door to inconsistent surface finish results.
Read More
How to calculate stempover and get a uniform surface finish
“Where did these stripes come from?” This is a question we hear in automated texturing and etching applications. Most customers want to avoid creating a barber-pole or stripe pattern on their part surface.
Read MoreReconditioningTurbine Blades
Removing metalization on ceramic components
Coating Removal from the Blog
Wire Stripping? Get uniform removal + sharp delineation with the ring nozzle
Our SP1906 Nozzle Array, or the Ring Nozzle, mounts to the floor or the side of any Comco WorkStation and turns coating removal and texturing into a quick and precise one-person task.
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Static Sensitive Application?
MicroBlasting provides a gentle, precise and controllable approach to selectively remove parylene, epoxy, polyurethane, silicone, acrylic and more without danger.
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Turbine blade regeneration using MicroBlasting
Whether you’re refurbishing landbased gas or jet-engine turbines, MircoBlasting is the ideal method of cleaning turbine blades. When turbines are split in two for maintenance, hot path components and combustion components are pulled out for repair.
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Wire Stripping? Get uniform removal + sharp delineation with the ring nozzle
Our SP1906 Nozzle Array, or the Ring Nozzle, mounts to the floor or the side of any Comco WorkStation and turns coating removal and texturing into a quick and precise one-person task.
Read More
Static Sensitive Application?
MicroBlasting provides a gentle, precise and controllable approach to selectively remove parylene, epoxy, polyurethane, silicone, acrylic and more without danger.
Read More
Turbine blade regeneration using MicroBlasting
Whether you’re refurbishing landbased gas or jet-engine turbines, MircoBlasting is the ideal method of cleaning turbine blades. When turbines are split in two for maintenance, hot path components and combustion components are pulled out for repair.
Read moreDeburring Precision Valves and Manifolds
Deburring Black PEEK
Precision Deburring from the Blog
6 quick deburring case studies
Learn what abrasive, nozzle and blast pressure are used to precisely remove burrs and refine surfaces on these small, intricate parts. Includes: metal gears, PEEK spinal implants, electronic packages, stainless steel valve components, aluminum fixtures and titanium components.
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Five Factors that Lead to Successful Deburring
Knowing the 5 factors that lead to successful deburring will help you and your team improve your approach, work more efficiently, and get the most out of your blasting system.
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The Missing Measurements of Deburring
Are burrs suddenly popping up again in your machining process?rnAre new burrs appearing in a different location on your part?rnAre you having a hard time selecting a deburring method?rnHas your once-successful deburring method started to fail? Chances are, you’re missing a measurement.
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6 quick deburring case studies
Learn what abrasive, nozzle and blast pressure are used to precisely remove burrs and refine surfaces on these small, intricate parts. Includes: metal gears, PEEK spinal implants, electronic packages, stainless steel valve components, aluminum fixtures and titanium components.
Read More
Five Factors that Lead to Successful Deburring
Knowing the 5 factors that lead to successful deburring will help you and your team improve your approach, work more efficiently, and get the most out of your blasting system.
Read More
The Missing Measurements of Deburring
Are burrs suddenly popping up again in your machining process?rnAre new burrs appearing in a different location on your part?rnAre you having a hard time selecting a deburring method?rnHas your once-successful deburring method started to fail? Chances are, you’re missing a measurement.
Read MoreMachining grooves into hydrodynamic seals
Thermocouples
Abrasive Jet Machining from the Blog
How to create features of a specific depth
A single pass of the focused abrasive stream from a MicroBlaster can uniformly remove 5 µin (0.127 microns) or less of material depending on the substrate, abrasive, and blast parameters. Given this level of precise and controllable erosion, you simply need to know how to fine-tune the process to suit your application.
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5 Variables for Abrasive Jet Machining
Using MicroBlasting to cut or etch a part (a process also known as controlled erosion) is a great method to machine many precision parts, from drilling holes in ceramic substrates to cutting slots in fragile silicon and glass wafers. MicroBlasting is “shockless,” generating neither heat nor vibration, meaning microcracks are less likely to form and damage part integrity.
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Etching channels to create an air bearing or hydrodynamic seal
Bearings inside turbine engines operate at high speeds in a harsh environment where traditional rolling contact or static bearings would not survive. To improve reliability and fuel efficiency specifically on jet engines, shallow channels are incorporated into the design in which air flows rather than traditional lubricants. The technical challenge is how to create these channels.
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How to create features of a specific depth
A single pass of the focused abrasive stream from a MicroBlaster can uniformly remove 5 µin (0.127 microns) or less of material depending on the substrate, abrasive, and blast parameters. Given this level of precise and controllable erosion, you simply need to know how to fine-tune the process to suit your application.
Read More
5 Variables for Abrasive Jet Machining
Using MicroBlasting to cut or etch a part (a process also known as controlled erosion) is a great method to machine many precision parts, from drilling holes in ceramic substrates to cutting slots in fragile silicon and glass wafers. MicroBlasting is “shockless,” generating neither heat nor vibration, meaning microcracks are less likely to form and damage part integrity.
Read More
Etching channels to create an air bearing or hydrodynamic seal
Bearings inside turbine engines operate at high speeds in a harsh environment where traditional rolling contact or static bearings would not survive. To improve reliability and fuel efficiency specifically on jet engines, shallow channels are incorporated into the design in which air flows rather than traditional lubricants. The technical challenge is how to create these channels.
Read more
Your Partner for Industrial Engineering Solutions.
We’ll work closely with you by applying our engineering skills to your problem, providing the process with our technologies, and sharing our accumulated expertise to develop solutions that are efficient and cost effective.
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Applied Engineering with a Deep Understanding of Aerospace Parts
Engineering is at the core of Comco. Our engineers have a background in the medical, aerospace, and semiconductor industries. While we are experts at MicroBlasting, we can also “speak your language.”
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Providing the process at no additional cost to you
Let us prove how a custom MicroBlasting process would work for you while sharing our engineering expertise up front, without charge.
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Sharing our skills & knowledge throughout our partnership
We’ll share our engineering skills and knowledge at every step of our partnership. Advanced technical support continues beyond your initial purchase of our MicroBlasting systems, and we also offer assistance with new applications as they arise.
TRY OUR PROCESS
See what precision MicroBlasting can do for you. Send us a part and we’ll MicroBlast it, analyze it, and return it to you with a detailed report.
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A Complete MicroBlasting Solution
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Comfortable
Ergonomic design reduces operator fatigue
Versatile
Flows a wide range of media
Consistent
Unique patented modulated abrasive feed
User Friendly
Easy to set-up and easy to maintain
Mobile
Casters allow for adaptive cell environments
Clean & Quiet
HEPA filtration and customized fan box improves operation
Cost-effective
Our best for a turnkey solution
Comfortable
Ergonomic design reduces operator fatigue
Versatile
Flows a wide range of media
Consistent
Unique patented modulated abrasive feed
User Friendly
Easy to set-up and easy to maintain
Mobile
Casters allow for adaptive cell environments
Clean & Quiet
HEPA filtration and customized fan box improves operation
Cost-effective
Our best for a turnkey solution
Customizable
Offers a range of workholding and blast head options
Scalable
Designed to grow from manual to fully automatic
User Friendly
Intuitive user interface for programming and operation
Turnkey
Delivered production ready
Peace of mind
Fully documented and supported
Consistent
Unique patented modulated abrasive feed
Robust
Stable in full production
Customizable
Offers a range of workholding and blast head options
Scalable
Designed to grow from manual to fully automatic
User Friendly
Intuitive user interface for programming and operation
Turnkey
Delivered production ready
Peace of mind
Fully documented and supported
Consistent
Unique patented modulated abrasive feed
Robust
Stable in full production