Clemco donates blast cabinet to Texas welding program

Dorman Vick (kneeling, right) with his 2020-21 first- and second-period students.

Washington, Mo.-based Clemco Industries, a manufacturer of air-powered abrasive blasting equipment used to clean, deburr, shot peen, finish, and remove coatings from surfaces, has donated a Pulsar Plus 55-Suction Blast Cabinet to the Welding Pathway at Samuel V. Champion High School in Boerne, Texas.

Students in the Welding Pathway, launched by Dorman Vick in 2004, have built projects for the USDA, a disabled American veteran, and a former World Wrestling Entertainment universal champion, among others.

Vick contacted Clemco to request a donation of a blast cabinet to save the students time in removing mill scale from their test weld coupons and workpieces so they could devote more time to working on complex, creative projects.

“We got the cabinet set up on day one,” Vick recalled. “That day the students went to work blasting mill scale off their welds with No. 8 glass bead. It was like going from the Flintstones to the penthouse. Not only does the cabinet make the work go about 80% faster, but it is far safer than hand grinding and produces a fantastic finish on the metal.”