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Control of Powder Film Thickness

Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert offers insights for film build control when powder coating.

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Liquid Coating

Troubleshooting Electrostatic Applicators

Payton Cozart, Product Manager, Carlisle Fluid Technologies offers insights for correct operation of electrostatic handguns used in painting processes.

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Liquid Coating

Is Your Cleaning Process Effective?

Giles Dillingham Ph.D., founder and chief scientist, BTG Labs, discusses testing methods for measuring surface quality.

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Achieving Desired Thickness with Black Passivate

Curt Sotera of Columbia Chemical offers insights for achieving the desired results when plating parts in zinc-nickel with a black passivate.

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Mitigating Fish Eye Defects

Having trouble with fish eye defects in your powder coating? Verney Denerville of Tiger Drylac offers insights for avoiding and fixing this common coating defect.

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Electroplating

Calculating Electroless Nickel Square Footage

Matthew Wojcik of Coventya Inc. offers advice for calculating the proper square footage of work that can be processed through an EN bath.

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Liquid Coating

Controlling Temperature in Paint Process

Mike Bonner of Saint Clair Systems discusses using a temperature hierarchy to assess how to best control temperature in your paint process.

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Avoiding White Spots Caused by Galvanic Corrosion on EN AW 2024

Four approaches to troubleshoot white spots that appear because of galvanic corrosion.    

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Switching from Decorative Hexavalent Chromium to Trivalent

Pavco decorative team manager, Shane Moore, discusses the considerations you should keep in mind when contemplating switching from decorative hexavalent chromium to trivalent.

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Understanding AAMA Specifications

Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert explains AAMA specifications and considerations coaters should make before taking on work required to meet those standards.

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