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[flying_trader]

Not sure I would say "of course"...

When Donald Godfrey from Honeywell made his presentation at the last investor's day conference he brought with him a piece they had made via EBM and one they intended to put on planes...

He showed what the piece looked like right out of the Arcam machine, dull and somewhat rough finish, much like the LPT blade shown in that article... he compared that to the one he brought which was bright and polished and said their studies indicated that the part right out of the Arcam machine performed just as well as the bright polished one but that the marketing guys wanted it polished so they sent it out to India to have the post production polishing done...

I guess my query is this: Do LPT blades directly out of an Arcam machine need further processing for technical reasons or cosmetic reasons ? Sounds like they do need to have some coatings added so that sounds like a mission critical requirement but the polishing ?

Cheers