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Spent Bulbs as Hazwaste

I wish to emphasize the significance of one critical word in your response “...usually fitted with green end caps and certified to pass TCLP”. Unless you have that certification on hand for your lamps, or TCLP results from a certified laboratory, you may find during your next inspection that the cost of (mis)managing your lamps has more than erased all the savings you made.

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energy

Simplifying Pretreatment

Single-step process saves energy, time, disposal costs

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Another Inconvenient Truth

Our broad editorial focus this month is on energy savings, a topic that should be of importance to pretty much all finishers as we slog through another winter here in the northern hemisphere.

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Electroplating

Chemical Quality and Electroless Nickel

Since switching our supplier of sodium sulfide and sodium hypophosphite used in our electroless nickel plating baths, we have had problems such as brown stains and plating out of nickel on the tank walls. Do you have any suggestions for resolving these problems?

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Three Steps to Lower Energy Use

Improve paint system bottom line by cutting energy consumption

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At Last, an Easy Way to Make a 16.36% Average Annual Rate of Return...Without Risk

Earlier this year this column carried an article with a similar title (but the percentage was 16.28%, instead of the 16.36% in this title). Readers buried us in an avalanche of calls, faxes and e-mails.

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Liquid Coating

Clearcoats for Brass

Can you recommend a brass coating that will provide a longer life for outdoor decorative items?

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Liquid Coating

Coating Fabric

Is there a pretreatment that would allow better adhesion of moisture curing polyurethane (for water proofing) to woven nylon or crystalline polyurethane fabric?

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Awesome Alloy

Switch to tin cobalt alloy eliminates chrome

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Attractive Proposition

Magnetic masking can save time and money

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