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Enclosed Spray Booth
We are located in southern India, where the normal temperature is 30-40°C. How can we control the humidity and temperature in our spray paint booth?
Read MorePainting Radiators
Is spray painting the best option for getting paint onto cooling radiators, and if so, what type of spray guns or special nozzles do you recommend?
Read MoreWeld Drag Marks
Regarding the question by B.F. (January 2011) concerning spot weld drag marks: While your answer was certainly correct, the question may still not be completely answered.
Read MorePainting Fishing Lures
What are the best undercoat and finish coat to use on stainless steel fishing lures?
Read MoreThermal Oxidizer
Our client has an RTO on its aluminum window frame painting line, and we supplied a total hydrocarbon analyzer to meet compliance. We get a huge spike in the readings when the RTO chambers cycle every four minutes. We can go from 3 to 6 ppm for four min, then spike to 400 to 1,000 ppm for a few seconds. I don’t believe RTOs should work that way and that switching should have little or no effect on efficiency. I think the client’s unburned paint is contaminating our gas analyzer.
Read MoreApplying Gel Coats
Is it possible to apply paint into the SMC molding process which satisfies 0.4 mm paint thickness and a minimum surface hardness of 4H?
Read MoreWhy Paint Stainles Steel?
Are air-dry epoxy coatings suitable for application on 304 and 316 stainless steel materials?
Read MoreSanding in the Finishing Area
Is it standard practice to allow sanding in areas where the final top coat is sprayed?
Read MoreControlled Skinning
Can you recommend a low-cost, industrial, clear glossy alkyd medium that can produce the skinning effect you get with some stored alkyd paints?
Read MorePainting Stainless Steel
We are concerned about paint adhesion on equipment cabinets made of mostly 41003 (a utility-grade stainless steel that is 12 percent Cr) and either 304 or 201 for the hard-to-draw parts.
Read MoreStirred, Not Shaken
My group has responsibility for process specification BAC5736 regarding mixing of an epoxy primer. Here is my interpretation of the specification.
Read MoreFungus-Resistant Topcoat
We are using a mil spec polyurethane topcoat, MIL-PRF-85285, on an electronics housing, and I am trying to find a reference indicating that this topcoat is fungus-resistant.
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