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"Bleach Test" for Quality of Anodic Seal

Question: A customer of ours has asked us to conduct a bleach test on its parts that have been sulfuric acid anodized, dyed and sealed.

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Black Coating for Aluminum

Question: I am doing some research on the full range of potential coatings and associated application methods to apply a uniform black coating to the surface of an aluminum automotive condenser product. "Normal" spray techniques, for both liquid and powder, and the associated ovens and material handling equipment, are very expensive and labor intensive.

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How To Choose and Use Non-Woven Abrasives

Abrasive products are usually categorized as bonded abrasives and coated abrasives, but there is a third category that prepares and applies a final finish to the surface, these are non-woven abrasives . . .

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Disc Drive Parts Cleaning

  Question: My company is working with several disc drive parts manufacturers.

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Carbonates in Cyanide Plating Baths

Question: What causes carbonates to form in a cyanide plating bath?

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Dot-Commentary: Design for Usability

One of the things that I love about the Internet is that anybody with a computer and a modem or a library card can use it.

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Automatic Powder Coating—Meeting Customers' Demands

Increased demand was pushing Royston's powder coating line to maximum capacity, amplifying the problems with the company's aging line. But, an automatic powder coating system relieved the pressure on the line and helped the company meet its customers' demands . . .

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Cleaning Rust from Cold-Rolled Steel

Question: How can we clean the rust off of unpainted cold-rolled steel parts slated for electrocoating that underwent an atmospheric corrosion attack from an accidental release of muriatic acid vapors in our plant?

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Electroless Nickel on Aluminum

Question: We want to plate aluminum with electroless nickel.

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Bubbles During Curing on Galvanized Steel

Question: We read with interest your April column in which you addressed problems with powder coating over galvanized steel.

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