True Temper Sports selects Tri-Mer Industrial Dust Collection System.
True Temper Sports is the leading producer of golf shafts. Steel shafts are manufactured in True Temper’s plant in Amory, Mississippi, which also manufactures bicycle frame components, and steel products for the automotive and recreation industries.
True Temper’s steel golf shafts are the product of 41 individual manufacturing steps. Among the most critical is polishing, a precisely controlled abrasive belt process which prepares the metal for plating baths of duplex nickel, then chrome. These final steps are what give the shafts their perfect, high-gloss shine.
As with all metal polishing operations, the safe and efficient collection of airborne particulate is a key concern. True Temper decided to replace one of several polishing process dust collectors, which, due to internal corrosion and an increasing demand for maintenance, had become obsolete. The company considered several alternatives, including both wet and dry dust collection equipment.
True Temper chose a Whirl Wet Model MCD (“modular conveyor drag-out”) wet dust collection system manufactured by Tri-Mer Corp.
Whirl Wet systems serve a broad range of metal grinding and polishing operations, including those involving volatile materials such as titanium and magnesium. Because the system is effective for the collection of all particulates one micron and above, both soluble and insoluble, Whirl Wet dust collection systems are also used throughout the food, chemical, and aggregate industries.
The Whirl Wet unit chosen by True Temper is mild steel, with stationary polypropylene impellers. A corrosion-resistant liner protects mild steel wetted surfaces on the interior of the collector. Because the Whirl Wet impellers are 100% polypropylene and resist the accumulation of the collected material, corrosion in the impellers and blockage within the impellers is prevented.
Tri-Mer has systems serving similar applications that have demonstrated a 20-year service life and longer. Whirl Wet units are manufactured in 100% polypropylene, 304 and 316 stainless, FRP and PVC, in addition to mild steel.
Systems are supplied with one of three disposal options: manual, timed drain-down or, as was the case with True Temper, Modular Conveyor Dragout (MCD). The latter is recommended for heavy dust load applications, including grinding and polishing operations, because it allows quick, easy removal of residue without shutting down the polishing operation – or even the dust collector itself.
Whirl Wet Model MCD