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Name: Since You Asked: Depowdering 101
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Description: 💡 Ever wonder how parts go from the printer to an accepted component for testing? In the latest "Since You Asked," additive manufacturing engineer Dan Christiansen walks us through how parts are cleaned and inspected before getting the green light for engine integration. P.S. the team is hiring: https://lnkd.in/dmaGJr7b

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💡 Ever wonder how parts go from the printer to an accepted component for testing? In the latest "Since You Asked," additive manufacturing engineer Dan Christiansen walks us through how parts are cleaned and inspected before getting the green light for engine integration. P.S. the team is hiring: https://lnkd.in/dmaGJr7b

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Hi, I'm Dan Christiansen, I'm an additive manufacturing engineer with Relativity Space, and since you asked, I'd love to hear more about the powdering. How do you make sure there's not even a speck of dust and a small enclosed fuel passage? Alright, let's get into it. For a bit of context, the majority of our parts on our engine are produced via laser powder bed fusion. This process involves producing a part using a laser and a big VAT of metal powder. During and after the print, the parts are fully submerged in metal. Water and this includes all the empty space around the part as well as the internal fuel manifolds and channels. First, we work with the design analyst teams to create a part that can be powdered easily. This includes having evacuation holes for powder to flow out as well As for borescope cameras to move in to inspect afterwards. Next, we decide how clean the part needs to be and this allows us to establish a specification for cleanliness. This quantifies exactly how the clean the part needs to be depending on the end use application. Lastly, when the print is complete, we use a number of techniques. To remove the powder from the part. This includes specialty metal powder vacuums that suck the powder up and recondition it for use in future prints. We have robotic shaker tables that invert the part and shake it to get the last little bit of powder out. Like you're trying to get the last bit of ketchup out of the bottle. The part and then move on to precision cleaning steps and an ultrasonic bath and eventually move on to assembly into our engine for testing.

Levon M.

Engineering and Manufacturing Student | Design Engineer Intern | CSWP

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How can someone get into working with this?

Lorenzo “Enzo” Vito Galicia

Propulsion Design Lead (Metal Additive) at Axiom Space

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What L-PBF printers do you use?

Trevor Mahlmann

professional creator/communicator, amplifying the inspiration of spaceflight💫

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This video series is so well done🤌👏

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This is just the sort of short and sweet tech content I enjoy watching.

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