automotive

Perspectives: Automotive Update

Automotive manufacturers are asking suppliers to help them make vehicles more environmentally friendly.

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Powder Coating and Metal Plating

Question: One advantage of powder coating and clear coats is that it provides a smooth base for further metal plating, for example, chroming of plastics or automotive wheels without hex chrome.

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GM Truck Plant Uses High-Output Lighting for Paint Inspection

The perpendicular lighting fixtures provide GM with the ability to detect paint and metal imperfections, allowing them to correct flaws and enhance finishes…

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Starting a Plating Shop

Question: I want to start a plating shop specializing in decorative chromium plating of automotive rims and accessories.

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Response to Accelerated Lab Testing vs. Field Performance

Question: Thanks from an automotive materials engineer for your response to P.R. in the October 2001 issue.

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Finding Customers

Question: We are considering installing an electrocoat system for our product (automotive brackets) but do not have enough of our own product to justify the system.

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Quantifying Paint System Performance

The ability of a coating to withstand severe duty is a complex function dependent upon the substrate, coating chemistry, pretreatment and application variability. This report benchmarks the methodology the Tank Automotive and Armaments Command is using on select programs to define and quantify the durability of epoxy-based coating systems whose primary performance requirement is to protect the substrate from corrosion...

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Cleaning Low Carbon Steel

Question: I have constant velocity joint components from an automotive application that I believe to be a low carbon steel.

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Perspectives: How Will They Know if We Don't Tell Them?

Please don't ask me why, but there are times when I sit and think about all the ways finishing is involved in life. (Maybe it's because the fish aren't biting.) Of course there are the obvious ways: car, appliances, computer, fishing lures.

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UV Automotive Applications

Did you know that every automobile produced in the U.S. has parts that are UV cured?

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