“To thermally deburr items we need to place them inside a sealed chamber to contain the thermal blast which passes across the burrs (both external and internal) and oxidizes them and any contaminants.

“Now whilst the majority of the components that we process easily fitted into our old chamber we increasingly had to turn away components that were ideal for the process save that they were slightly too big.”

The length of the chamber has only been increased by 10%, but that extra 30mm to 330mm makes all the difference. Already, new opportunities are presenting themselves. The largest chamber is now 330mm x 250mm diameter.