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Making Stainless Steel Stainless
Choosing a passivating or electropolishing process for your parts.
Read MorePlating Brightness Standard
Do you know of any brightness standards for bright tin plating?
Read MorePowder Coating On Coil Stock
Can you describe the process of coil powder coating to me? What are its finishing products? Its application? What do I have to watch out for on the backing of the finished application? (i.e., the side that’s not coated?)
Read MoreIncinerator Needed for Lead-Free E-Coat?
My question is this: Do we still need to run this incinerator since we aren’t producing anything that would harm the environment, or can we at least turn the temperature down? We currently run it at 1200°F. I have asked, but nobody seems to know.
Read MorePretreatments: The Next Generation
Emerging technologies can save energy, ease environmental concerns
Read MorePigment to Binder Ratio Calculation
For my percent ash value the formula reads: % ash value = ((100% -% moisture of sample)/%NV) × 100. The problem I encounter is that I’m unable to figure out the percent moisture of sample. Is there a formula I’m missing?
Read MoreLittle change, big Results
Now our wastewater treatment operator pays much more attention to the firmness quality of the sludge, and we send out a sludge sample for total solids analysis on a monthly basis. Over the last several years, our annual sludge analysis for TCLP chromium has given results within historical norms.
Read MorePretreatment of Aluminum
Recently, we had a job to paint several pieces that were too long to fit into our chromate conversion coating tanks, so our customer arranged with another shop to anodize them. These pieces were painted some months ago and we now find there is an adhesion problem after only three months in the field. In fact, the finish is peeling off in large sections. Can you give us some suggestions as to why we are running into adhesion problems using the anodizing pretreatment, and why you feel anodizing is preferable to a chromate conversion coating as a pretreatment? Also, is it possible that initially there may be good adhesion of the coating to the anodized surface, but later there is a reaction which causes peeling problems?
Read MoreIt’s Not Jobs, Stupid
In 1992, one of Bill Clinton’s campaign managers summed up the key issue of that year’s presidential election in just four words: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Fast-forward to 2007, and ask most any politician: What’s the biggest issue facing U.S. manufacturing today?
Read MoreInspection Procedure
I’m looking for a written procedure detailing how powder coated parts are inspected for imperfection or flaws. Do you know where I could find something like this?
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