To learn more about sand reclamation, read Jack Palmer's article on Consideration for Reclaiming Chemically Bonded Sand in the January 2012 issue of Foundry Magazine. This article is on page 10.

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How It Operates:

• Sand is metered into a rotary calciner of unique design where it is heated to the desired temperature.
• Precisely heated sand falls into a rotating cooler with ambient air flow that cools the sand to within 25° F of ambient while removing a controlled amount of fines.
• No cooling water system required.
• Larger output and gas fired units available soon.

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Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., Conbraco Industries and MetalTech Systems provided a sand mixer for the new Virginia Tech foundry for training students called, Virginia Tech Foundry Institute for Research and Education, or VT Fire.

Virginia Tech officially recognized Conbraco, Palmer and MetalTech Systems, during a dedication event.

“We were pleased to assist Virginia Tech in their efforts to prepare students for successful metal casting careers as well as research new technologies,” said Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing & Supply.

New Palmer Ultra High Temperature Cooler Classifier (UHT-Series) designed to cool sand from over 1000° F to as low as 120° F at rates up to 40 tons per hour of incoming sand using a heavy duty steel fluid bed and a high horsepower high flow blower. The temperature of the incoming sand is monitored and the necessary amount of properly tempered water is metered into the linear stainless steel cooling bundle to meet discharge set point.

The system monitors incoming and
outgoing water temperatures to ensure the system is operating at peak efficiency.

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Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., recently announced Rich McNeely as Design Engineer, Chris Andorfer as Applications Engineer, and Matt Simms as Customer Service Representative.

	Rich McNeely – Design Engineer R. McNeely comes to Palmer with over 13 years of foundry no-bake equipment manufacturing experience and is a graduate of Clark State Community College. His responsibilities include equipment and foundry design.
	Chris Andorfer – Applications Engineer C. Andorfer comes to Palmer with over 18 years of 3D CAD and manufacturing experience and is a graduate of Technology Education College. His responsibilities include technical support, 3D CAD and design.

In this article featured in the October/November 2010 edition of Cast Metal & Diecasting Times, Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc., discusses the benefits of using radio frequency identification tags in foundry production.

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SPRINGFIELD, OH (October 2010) – Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., has introduced the latest in high efficiency calibration tube technology with new Palmer Flow Calibration Tubes for accurate and precise calibration of No Bake resins.

Palmer Flow Calibration Tubes are highly accurate, safe and cost effective as well as efficient as they eliminate the need for scales, buckets, and gloves in calibration. Additionally, liquids can be calibrated with just one operator in less than two minutes.

Significant Features:

• Calibrate continuous mixers without wasting binder (zero loss system)
• Measures actual binder flow to the mixer
• No operator contact with resins
• No more mess
• Extremely accurate
• Heavy duty sight glass gauge – easily cleaned
• Available in ½ liter, 2-liter and 4-liter
• Compatible with a wide variety of materials

“Palmer Flow Calibration Tubes were designed to reduce labor costs, as calibration can easily be performed during mold and core making process, eliminating lost production time due to calibration,” said Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing & Supply. “This precise and repeatable flow calibration system is by far the easiest and therefore quickest of all to calibrate,” he added.

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Introducing
Palmer FATTBlades™

Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., has introduced the latest in mixer blade technology with new high speed Palmer FATTBlades™ for continuous sand mixers.

These blades are two wide blades that are as wide as the discharging chute. These blades are also easily mounted using the same holes used by existing single blades.

The Palmer FATTBlades™ create a turbine or fan effect which discharges the mixed sand at a much higher velocity. More importantly, these blades prevent sand from reaching the end of the mixing chamber, therefore eliminating “churning". The sand is also prevented from staying in the chamber longer than necessary.

This positive displacement of the sand along with the higher velocity greatly lessens build-up on the mixer shaft, blades and discharge chute.

All Palmer blades are manufactured from low alloy steel and are produced using investment castings. This process provides for a higher quality, longer lasting blade body. Standard tungsten carbide thickness is 1/4".

According to Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing, “foundries will appreciate less clean-up and greater productivity from their current mixers just by simply adding these new blades.”

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Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., recently introduced a new line of Scrubbers for Amines and SO2.

Significant features:

• 99% removal efficiency with Inlet loading of 335 ppm
• Automatic Charging & pH Monitoring
• Sizes: 2500cfm, 4000cfm, 6000cfm, 10000cfm, 20000cfm. Custom and larger sizes available.
• Fabricated from durable polypropylene
• Vertical design
• Color Touch Screen
• HMI Ethernet communication available o Hinged Window Kit - optional

"Foundries will find our new Scrubber line a solution to the new limits on foundry particulate emissions and appreciate that they are easily adaptable to any foundries' conditions. We have foundries reporting 99.99% removal efficiency rates with our new Scrubber," said Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing, Inc.

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• 2500, 4000, 6000cfm scrubber for Amines & SO2

Gorilla Machinery recently announced its new certified used equipment program for selling used foundry and general manufacturing equipment with a new website: www.gorillamachinery.com.

“When purchasing used machines and equipment from other sources, unmet expectations and dissatisfaction can happen as a result of inaccurate descriptions and poor communications,” said Steve Clarkson, Director of Used Equipment Sales for Gorilla Machinery “Verbal description are not precise; ‘really good’ condition to one person might be ‘junk’ to another,” he added.

Gorilla Machinery takes the worry out of buying used equipment by certifying all of its equipment, using a 5-Star Certification Program:

5 Stars – Next to new like condition
4 Stars – Good condition, ready-to-go
3 Stars – Fair condition, works
2 Stars – Runs, needs attention
1 Star – Parts machine

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Other significant advantages:

• Gorilla only sells equipment that has been inspected and certified.
• Inspection services are available for equipment not belonging to Gorilla.
• Repair, rebuild and re-work, refurbish services available.
• Companies looking to sell equipment can have their equipment certified and placed on the Gorilla website.
• In lieu of an on-site visit, a customer may elect to have Gorilla videotape the machine in detail while cycling.

“Especially during this recession, used equipment has become an attractive alternative to purchasing new equipment. We help companies by providing a system to best understand the condition of a piece of equipment,” added Clarkson.

About Gorilla Machinery:

Gorilla Machinery specializes in new and used equipment sales for foundry and general material handling. Typical listings include: sand mixers, molding systems, core room equipment, shake-out reclamation & knock-out equipment, mold handlers, bulk storage, pumping systems, resin heating systems, conveyors, transporters, hopper loader, dryers, etc..

Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., has introduced the latest in elevator technology, with the new Palmer / OLDS Vertical Elevator. This new equipment uniquely vertically elevates, heats, cools, and meters with only one moving part in contact with the product!

Having an uncomplicated design employing a static screw and a rotating casing means substantially reduced maintenance costs and delays versus standard bucket elevators and other elevating devices. The rotating casing, with attached intake scoops, is the only moving part to touch the product; thereby preventing any product contamination. The Palmer / OLDS Vertical Elevator can be supplied with an optional built-in Heat Exchanger at minimal extra expense.

One foundry moving 10-20 tons of sand per day is reporting no maintenance costs or downtime over a six year period and therefore has substantially reduced both maintenance and expensive downtime costs versus their former bucket elevator.

Other significant advantages:

• High Volume Handling
• Vertically Elevates, Heats, Cools and Meters
• Small Footprint – elevate bulk material at 90° in under 10 square ft. of floor space.
• Precision Variable Flow Rate
• Fire & Explosion Risk Minimized
• Dust-Free Elevation
• Product Shielded from Contaminants
• Rapid Clean-out
• Energy Efficient – operates with low amp draw and outperforms pneumatic systems without costly compressors, blowers, and vacuum equipment.
• No need for separate metering devices
• Does not segregate materials during elevation
• Silent Operation
• Can be used with a wide variety of materials

“Palmer is a leader in providing heavy duty foundry automation equipment that reduces maintenance costs while increasing productivity. We partnered with OLDS Elevator to bring this extraordinarily superior elevator to the foundry industry,” said Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc.

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Palmer Manufacturing & Supply, Inc., has introduced the addition of RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification Tags) to their standard line of CM-Series CoreMakers. The Palmer CoreMaker provides foundries with an economical means for the blowing of No Bake and Cold Box cores.

• The Cold Box CoreMaker comes complete with a gas generator & gassing head. Palmer also has a complete line of Scrubbers.
• The No Bake CoreMaker is not just a core-blower. The mixer rotates 90° to allow mixed sand to discharge outboard of the CoreMaker footprint. This allows for molds and very large cores to be produced – all on one machine!
• Both versions of the Palmer CM-Series CoreMakers™ are available with RFID tagging that saves the settings – program it once & forget it.

CM-Series CoreMaker™ with RFID

• Increase jobbing productivity – with single or dual operator stations.
• Easy positioning – with the laser alignment guide.
• Keep the operators working – let the RFID system change settings between different boxes.
• Programmable blow pressure - easily fine tune each core.
• Make Cores and Molds in One Machine!
• Heavy duty Clamping Table & Cylinders
• Full PLC controls of any continuous or batch mixer
• Sizes:
  • CM-25 up to 30 lbs. per blow
  • CM-50 up to 60 lbs. per blow
  • CM-100 up to 160 lbs per blow
  • CM-250 up to 300 lbs per blow

“Palmer is a leader in designing heavy duty foundry automation equipment that reduces operator errors and labor costs, increases productivity, and is ergonomically correct,” said Jack Palmer, President of Palmer Manufacturing, Inc.

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• All wear parts are easily replaced
• Simple programmable functions
• Roll cylinders standard with sensors
• Sensors - Detect when to roll and roll back

Automatic

• Fast automatic & semi-automatic operations
• Full cycle
• Roll cycle
• Cure cycle

Manual

• Manual controls & operations
• Slotted for easy bushing change
• Easy box adjustments

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When compressed air is produced, a high level of moisture in both vapor and liquid forms are produced. The Palmer Compressed Air Dryer will normally remove 98% '+' of all water and water vapor while removing other contaminants including compressor oil and particulate. The unique Compressed Air Dryer is maintenance free due to an absence of moving parts, wear parts, replacement parts and filter elements.

Significant Features:

• Precision throttling jets momentarily cooling the air causing it to pass through the dew point condensing the water vapor to a liquid form. Stainless steel collecting baffles cause the water to be diverted to the sump, eliminating water and most water vapor that enters the unit for a total combined elimination of 98% "plus".
• No wear parts, replacement parts, moving parts and filters for a maintenance free unit.
• Sump has a fully automated drain system.

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Palmer Low-level Shake-out Deck with 
Attrition Mill (SDAM)

New Shake-out Deck Attrition Mill (SDAM) is a low level
shake-out deck with integral attrition mill. The output of the
unit is grain size.

• Unlike others, this unit does not need a pit. 
• No pit means less clean-up 
• Low load height 
• Reduces molds/lumps to grain size 
• Heavy Duty construction 
• Large easy access clean-out doors 
• Modular design for easy maintenance 
• 5 sizes with deck loads up to 25,000 lbs

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Now with Dual Mixing Chamber doors (both sides) for Easy Cleaning & Maintenance

• Dual Door – no tools required 
• High Speed 
• Heavy Duty – low maintenance 
• Easy Operation 
• Tungsten Carbide Tipped Blades 
• High Torque Precise Resin Metering 
• Outputs: 15 – 5,000 lbs. per minute

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This new option allows the user to move the mixer easily using either a forklift or overhead crane. It is ideal for foundries that make large molds which require specialty facing sands (Chromite, Zircon, etc.) or need to take the mixer to the mold rather than take the mold to the mixer. This unit is also an ideal demo machine for resin companies and other foundry consumable suppliers

According to owner, Jack Palmer, "This new design meets the needs of anyone making large molds requiring specialty sands. Molders no longer have to wheelbarrow or bucket prepared specialty sand for the core room to the molding floor. We are proud to provide the industry with another productivity and quality improvement tool."

Significant Features: 

• 20 Ft³ Hopper 
• Low Sand Interlock 
• On Board Chemical Rack with Containers up to 10 gal Capacity 
• Multiple Resin Levels 
• Calibration Timer with Remote Start/Stop Buttons

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