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Parts Cleaning

Cleanliness Verification of Oil Pump Housing

When a part fails a cleanliness specification, it’s almost always due to maximum particle size and rarely, if ever, due to excessive weight.

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surfin

Yes, We Have a PF App for That!

Download the PF app to your smart phone and you could win an X-Box Kinect! Just stop by booth No. 206 at Sur/Fin and show us the app on your phone!

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surfin

Plating on Plastic Using Gas

GM-driven process increases materials that can be chrome plated.

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Parts Cleaning

Solving Adhesion Issues from Laser Cuts

Remove scale with a pretreatment solution.

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Liquid Coating

Painting Aluminum Tubes

In our product line we have an aluminum tube being used as an extension for a carbon mast. We have been painting this tube with white paint, but are having problems with the paint’s durability, as it is chipping.

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Spray Booth and Oven Information

I need information about different types of paint spray booths (dry filter, water wash, powder coating spray booth, etc.) and the various types of paint curing ovens. Would you please point me in the direction of some good resources?

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Liquid Coating

Parylene as a Coating method

I have a suggestion for another answer to the question appearing in the January 2011 issue of Painting Clinic regarding problems with creating a clear coating on brass.

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PEO coatings sparking new interest

Plasma electrolytic oxide surface treatment for aluminum, magnesium or titanium

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Paint Adhesion

Last year at this time we had a large amount of scrap due to paint adhesion failures. Our procedure for metal pretreatment was dip in alkaline cleaner, rinse in cold water and dip in a non-chromate final rinse. To solve this problem, I investigated other means of doing the job without going to an iron phosphate.

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Of Mice and Culligan Men

The relationship between the EWG hex chrome water study and a Culligan PR campaign raises some questions

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