by Comco Sales and Support | Oct 18, 2022 | Comco Updates, Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your System
Have you noticed a change in your MicroBlasting results? As your nozzle wears, it gradually loses the tight focus. Some applications you can keep using a nozzle until it blows out the side. For others, a few thousandths wear will cause part failure. Abrasives, like...
by Comco Sales and Support | Apr 26, 2022 | Comco Updates, Process Fundamentals
The selective cleaning process uses the abrasive qualities of MicroBlasting to carefully erode layers of unwanted material from a base substrate. The process takes advantage of the different physical properties of the two layers. Brittle materials can be removed from...
by Comco Sales and Support | Dec 7, 2021 | Case Studies, Comco Updates
Delicate silicon dies are encapsulated in epoxy to protect them. This becomes a problem when extracting the silicon die for failure analysis or reverse engineering. When using MicroBlasting, decapping an integrated circuit is safer, easier and more environmentally...
by Comco Sales and Support | Oct 25, 2021 | Comco Updates, Troubleshooting and Maintaining Your System
If you’ve ever been frustrated by a full, but non functioning salt shaker, discovered a suspect mass of whey in a tub of protein powder, or had to break up a chunk of powdered detergent, you know that fine powders and moisture are not a great combination. The...
by Comco Sales and Support | Aug 31, 2021 | Comco Updates, Equipment
We’ve made a big update to one of our Automated Systems! One of our favorite customization options is the serializer for our Advanced Lathe. This modification has long been used to engrave serial numbers on delicate ring laser gyro lenses without chipping or...