Liquid Coating
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 Painting
Coatings can be applied in a variety of ways, from e-coating to a brush. With all these options, why use traditional paint?
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Do you offer training courses or training materials that will help get us started?
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 MoreSpray Booth Selection
I would be obliged if you could advise me on which of the following two spray booths is best for my application.
Read MorePainting Over Powder Coating
How safely can they apply their wet paint over our powder coated parts?
Read MoreMetallics Appearance Repeatability
We make a line of scientific instruments and are in the process of introducing a new line. We are having some issues with a gold metallic paint used on them, in terms of the repeatability of its appearance. Since we don’t do painting in-house, the parts in question are outsourced to a custom painting shop. When they come back, they are all over the map in color and gloss.
Read MoreDust in the Paint Film
We are painting a plastic part using a two-coat system. The problem is that we have a lot of scrap due to what looks like dust in the paint film.
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