Articles
Chrome Comes Under Fire...Again
A proposed new standard for occupational exposure to hexavalent chrome suggests lowering the permissible exposure limit to less than 1/50th its current level. Here's a look at the proposed limits, how they were conceived, and how the industry is responding...
Read MoreHow to Bring Out the Best in Your People
Because there is a direct correlation between your performance and that of your people, your success as a supervisor depends on your ability to bring out the best in them.
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Do It Yourself
Simplex, Inc., a manufacturer of electrical test systems and fuel supply systems, established a need to upgrade its pretreatment line from a three-stage system to a five-stage system. Equipped with experience in fluid transportation and storage, they decided to design and build it themselves...
Read MoreCaustic Bath for Pre-copper Plating
Can you help me come up with the amounts of caustic potash and potassium cyanide that you need to makeup a caustic bath to use to neutralize acids from parts prior to copper plating them.
Read MoreWhat is Zinc Anodizing?
Question: I was asked the other day whether our shop could perform zinc anodizing.
Read MoreEstimating Finishing Costs
One of the keys to running a successful job shop lies in the ability to accurately assess the costs associated with finishing. Doing so requires that owners and managers examine a variety of factors, including labor, coatings, energy consumption, maintenance and others...
Read MoreJewel of Niles
Niles Mfg. has been framed—frame coated that is! The Ohio-based job shop has found a role as a provider of FrameCoatTM electrocoating of prototype parts for Tier One automotive plants and captive shops...
Read MoreAccelerated Aging Tests
Question: I recently experienced a failure on an accelerated aging test of a polyurethane coating system.
Read MoreIncrease Your Self-Confidence
If self-confidence is not the key to success, it is certainly a major ingredient.
Read MoreA Baffling Development
When The HON Company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of office furniture and components, realized that 50% of the paint it was applying was being lost in overspray, it turned to an industry supplier for an innovative solution…
Read MoreOptimizing Paint Durability, Part I
The rapid deployment of military force dictates that military assets be readily available in potential areas of conflict. As a means to this end, military equipment is prepositioned on ships. While the combat systems are sequestered in environmentally controlled holding areas, tactical systems are chained to the deck in a harsh marine environment. Following 24–30 months of marine exposure, the vast majority of once new equipment is in need of selective overhaul…
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