Liquid Coating
Guitar Finishes that Strike a Chord with Buyers
Fender, the world-famous maker of fine electric and acoustic guitars, uses special coatings to enhance the look and feel of guitars...
Read MoreThe Meniscus Effect
Question: I have painted some graphics for an overmolded automotive control button.
Read MorePainting Tube Interiors
Question: We want to paint metal tubes with inside diameters from 2-10 inches.
Read MorePainting Stainless Steel Alloy 304
Question: I would like to know if it is possible to paint stainless 304 with a high solids epoxy type paint (per Mil-C-22750). If not, can you recommend a paint type that would be more suitable for this alloy.
Read MorePainting Aluminum
Question: We are a small ornamental iron shop.In an effort to offer a more durable outside railing to customers, we have been manufacturing our ornamental iron designs from aluminum using traditional structural, just as with wrought iron, one-inch-square tubes, one-half-inch punched channels for framing, one-half-inch square solids for balusters, molded top rail or a channel for a top cover.
Read MorePretreatment Over Pretreatment, Part 2
Question: Your response to “Pretreatment Over Pretreatment” in the February Painting Clinic should be amended to warn him that running aluminum through an Iron phosphate spray washer would make the sludge in the washer a hazardous waste (according to an earlier comment you made about a year ago). I believe the problem is created by the definition of acid washing of aluminum is a categorical hazardous waste (by EPA definition). When he cleans the washer, all the sludge that is normally sent to the landfill or flushed down the sanitary sewer would be considered an illegal disposal of hazardous waste.
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