John Durkee

Metal finishing

Read the Good Book(s)!

John Durkee, Metal Finishing's "Cleaning Times" columnist, reviews three essential works on cleaning.

Aerosol-Dispensed Cleaners and Cleaning—Part III

In the last installment of his three-part series on aerosol-dispensed cleaning, John Durkee, Metal Finishing’s “Cleaning Times” columnist, covers the two significant hazards of using...

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Aerosol-Dispensed Cleaners and Cleaning--Part II

In the second installment of this series, Metal Finishing columnist John Durkee covers the wide variety of applications possible via this method, and how to best complete them.

All The World is NOT Flat: Part 2

This column expands upon my observation to that effect, which I described in my previous column (Metal Finishing, Volume 108, Issue 2, Feb. 2010). My basis for that belief is attendance at the...

Lessons from the Laundry: Recovering Energy Costs with Heat Wheels

In 2008, when a barrel of oil cost $147 and a gallon of gasoline cost $4.25 (or more), many readers called or wrote to ask if there were more energy-efficient cleaning processes. They wanted an...