INDUSTRY NEWS
Guyson
Joins BLOODHOUND
SSC Land Speed Project
One of the
leading industrial
finishing equipment
manufacturer’s,
Guyson International,
is proud to announce
that it has recently
become a product
sponsor of the
great engineering
adventure called
BLOODHOUND SSC,
which has as its
ultimate goal to
achieve the record
speed of 1000 mph
on land.
A significant element in undertaking this great
engineering challenge has also been the
objective of becoming the catalyst to inspire the
best of British engineering to get involved with
the project as well as to enthuse the next
generation of schoolchildren to get involved in
engineering. Over 250 UK companies, 180 of
them SMEs, are involved in the Project, which
has become a showcase for UK science and
engineering capability. Additionally over 6000
UK primary and secondary schools have signed
up to use the free BLOODHOUND Education
resources in their classrooms.
Guyson will be donating one of its premier
industrial quality Euroblast 6SF blast cabinets,
including a C400 dust collector equipped with
explosion relief and vertical ducting, for use in
the group’s workshop for the preparation of
titanium, aluminium and composite parts prior
to bonding. The cabinet is specially fitted with
cut outs on both sides of the cabinet, to allow
longer two and a half metre titanium pieces to
be blasted periodically in the same cabinet. The
cut outs allow the longer pieces to be passed
through the cabinet for blasting and blanking
plates are fitted over the side cut outs when the
machine is used as a normal blast cabinet.
Additionally, for all-purpose precision cleaning
of components, the project will use a Guyson
KS1500 ultrasonic cleaning tank. This 316L
polished stainless steel tank has an effective
working capacity of 117 litres, with internal tank
dimensions of 450mm breadth by 650mm wide.
Guyson’s ‘Kerry’ branded ultrasonic tanks have
been designed to achieve optimum cleaning
results using aqueous solutions. Ultrasonic
transducers bonded to the tank base provide
high performance and reliability together
with uniform distribution of the ultrasonic
energy. The frequency is factory tuned
to the individual tank/transducer
combination and then optimised
under normal usage conditions with
frequency sweep and fully automatic
tuning to deliver a robust ultrasonic
cleaning performance.
The BLOODHOUND SSC project
first got off the ground way back on
October 28th 2008 at the Science
Museum in London when Richard
Noble, Andy Green and the team
announced to the world their latest
plan to smash the World Land Speed
Record, and at the same time inspire
the next generation of Scientists and
Engineers with this iconic project.
The present world land speed record
is 763 mph held by Thrust SSC,
a UK team lead by BLOODHOUND’s
Project Director Richard Noble and
driven by Andy Green.
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May 2014
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