Powder Coating
Cleaning Aluminum Castings
I’d like to know what cleaning problems result in bad powder coating, or what tests we can do to ensure good cleaning.
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French Revolution
An urban bike Movement is sweeping Paris, and French custom coater Solyap is riding the wave
Read MoreFilm Thickness Tolerance
I find your response to J.O.’s question about textured coatings in the November 2007 Powder Coating Clinic column to be somewhat misleading. Attached is information about Rohm and Haas’ Textra technology.
Read MoreIndustry Standards
The company I work for uses many steel and aluminum parts that are made to specification and powder coated. One new part in particular is a powder-coated, die-cast aluminum part. How can we specify the properties of the powder coat to be of sufficient quality for our application (office furniture)?
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Standardization and Simulation
Pre-engineered work cell brings robots to more applications
Read More"Small Volcanoes"
I work for a company called Fuel Systems. We are being forced to move to an aluminized steel product to help in the reduction of rust on the inside of the tanks. We have a powder coat line that we put all our steel tanks through, and we’re finding that many, not all, of the aluminized tanks are showing blistering after final curing.
Read MoreYellowing of Stainless Steel
I read your April 2007 article with great interest, as we have a similar problem with powder coated Type 430 stainless steel and we have also been seeing yellowing. Unfortunately, at this time I can’t give you the powder coating composition, but could that be the source of our problem? Or is it simply that Type 430 stainless is a bad grade and we should be using Type 210 or 304?
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Flexible Thickness Measurement
Instrument handles variety of coatings, thicknesses and substrates
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High-Volume Copper Finish
I am working on a high-volume project for store fixtures where the displays have large parts. They call their finish darkened bronze. Is it possible to achieve the desired look with powder coating? Any recommendations on product or process? Do you know of any companies who are currently providing this finish?
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