automotive
Cleaning Up Slot Cars
Question: I have a slot car track with a lot of rust on the end terminals that connect the two pieces together. (They are small pieces about 1/8-inch long, very fragile). Have you ever been a slot car HO racer?
Read MorePerspectives: Automotive Update
Automotive manufacturers are asking suppliers to help them make vehicles more environmentally friendly.
Read MorePowder 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…
Read MoreStarting a Plating Shop
Question: I want to start a plating shop specializing in decorative chromium plating of automotive rims and accessories.
Read MoreResponse 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.
Read MoreFinding 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...
Read MoreCleaning Low Carbon Steel
Question: I have constant velocity joint components from an automotive application that I believe to be a low carbon steel.
Read MorePerspectives: 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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