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Reality Check: The Economy—How Much Longer?
The economy continues to weigh heavily on the minds of industrial finishers and suppliers alike.
Read MoreStripping Powder
Question: What is the best media to use if I have to strip cured powder coating using abrasive blasting?
Read MoreQuality Finishing: Part II Mechanical Finishing: A Review and New Technologies
Part II of this series discusses equipment for mechancial finishing...
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.
Read MoreMore Floc
Question: Steve, in your March 2003 “Increased Floc” article, you responded to a reader’s question regarding increasing amount of floc in the wastewater pretreatment clarifier even though “nothing in our operations or chemistries has changed...” Chances are that something did indeed change, and detective work is needed to find the culprit.
Read MoreQuality Finishing: Finishing is a Blast
Anoplate offers some advice and some things to think about when doing abrasive blasting...
Read MoreBulk Painting Split Rings
Question: The company at which I am employed produces split rings that are used in the manufacture of fishing tackle.
Read MoreAnodic Coating on Rough vs. Smooth Substrate
Question: I am hard anodizing a 7075-T6 hot-forged part for an M-16 machine gun that has the internal cavity and some external features machined prior to anodizing.
Read MoreProcess Control
Question: Our plating company has recently undergone a change in management.
Read MoreThe End of Life Vehicle Directive and International Material Data System
Their implications for surface finishing…
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