Parts Cleaning
Cleaning Aluminum
e have been using lacquer thinner to clean aluminum parts before painting. Is this a good practice, and if not, what would be a good low cost replacement?
Read MoreGetting a Good Finish Begins with a Great Start
Virtually all metal parts and many plastic parts have some sort of finish applied to them. These finishes are applied to improve appearance, increase corrosion resistance and enhance wear resistance.
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A Shop for All Reasons
When Dennis Doane started his new metal fabricating endeavor in 2003, he selected the name A-1 Fabricators and Finishers for his Cincinnati-area company. It also helped years later, now that he has added a powder coating line to his repertoire.
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Be All You Can Be
For fabricators, the finishing line is just the beginning of a new era in today's market. The days of simply cutting, bending and welding metal components into assemblies and delivering them to a customer in two to three weeks just don't exist anymore, nor with original equipment manufacturers need tighter turnarounds for their parts.
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Benefits of Powder Coating
If you’ve done your homework, carefully analyzed your options and decided to use powder coating as a surface finish, where do you start?
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Ultrasonic Cleaning Systems Deliver Results and Efficiency
Tips to help you choose a system for profit, performance and quality.
Read MoreCorrect Coating For Staircase
I am having an old steel spiral staircase removed from a public school and then refinished and installed in my home.
Read MoreRepainting Office Furniture
We refinish metal office furniture on-site at the customer’s premises. I read in an article about the problem of using solvents for wax removal prior to painting. We agree that solvent wiping is a poor cleaning method for wax removal, and have had a similar problem with wax buildup and other surface contaminants, but are limited as to the methods of surface preparation due to our working conditions.
Read MorePainting Tank Interiors
Some of the tank interior floors receive a paint touch-up after testing and before shipping because people walk on the inside during the inspection. Recently, I got a customer complaint of soft uncured paint on the tank floor when it was opened for inspection prior to filling. I can’t understand how this happened.
Read MoreStainless Steel Preparation—Follow-Up
The following was submitted by a reader as a follow-up to the October 2010 column regarding a question pertaining to stainless steel pretreatment prior to painting or powder coating.
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