Comment on I've got a double peen AMA

Kaput@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Rentoraa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My time has come.

  I’m what the aerospace industry calls a “surface enhancement engineer.” A fancy way of calling me a peener. I mostly work with CNC air blast shot peening machines but the principle is essentially the same as a ball peen hammer.

  Basically, hitting metal with hard ball causes little dimples to form on the surface of your work piece. Hit it a shit load of times and you get dimples all over. At the end of the day all those dimples help prevent stress fractures from forming.

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Would you prefer us to call you a peener?

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    • Rentoraa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well it is the correct term. It’s also funny

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same for Soft face & double peen.

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  • Ridgetop18@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Soft face is exactly what it says, it’s got soft rubber faces, basically just a shrunk down rubber mallet. Use it on things you don’t want to leave marks on.

    Double peen is basically just a soft face except one side is like a hard epoxy like material. Harder than the rubber side, still softer than a metal head would be.

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