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Exploring the: Pretreatment for Plating Zone
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- Sand + Snow Makes Pretreatment Essential
- Polaris' finishing department made sure its cleaning and pretreatment process was doing the job right before they electrocoated and powder coated popular off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and military vehicles. SEE THE VIDEO
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Aerospace Drives More Calls for Non-Chrome Passivate Finishes
- More finishers are warming up to using non-chrome passivation as a way to satisfy customers who don’t want to use hexavalent chromium for corrosion treatment.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Are Ionic Liquids Right for Your Parts Cleaning Job?
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Ionic liquids have also been considered for parts cleaning applications because of their negligible vapor pressure, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and low melting points of less than 100°C.
Article Published: 4/1/2012
- Meeting the Critical Cleaning Challenge
- Today’s parts cleaning industry faces numerous challenges that can make the selection of an effective critical cleaning system difficult
Article Published: 4/1/2012
- Just How Clean Is Clean?
- Most finishing consultants have lost count of the number of times that inadequate cleaning and pretreatment was the cause of defective painting or plating. Skip plating, blistering, delamination—these are just some of the commonly found defects caus...
Article Published: 2/1/2012
- Stacking Up Against Tight Medical Tolerances
- The benefits of using dry lubricant coatings in medical mechanical assemblies
Article Published: 11/1/2011
- 2020 Vision: Plating
- With my company’s feet firmly planted in the zinc plating industry, my perspective mostly relates to the protection of steel parts.
Article Published: 5/18/2011
- PCX PREVIEW: Precision Cleaning
- In the finishing world, there are four common precision cleaning processes: hydrocarbon, aqueous, semi-aqueous, and vapor degreasing. Each has its strengths and disadvantages, but one of the biggest problems with aqueous and semi-aqueous cleaning is...
Article Published: 4/1/2011
- Getting a Good Finish Begins with a Great Start
- Virtually all metal parts and many plastic parts have some sort of finish applied to them. These finishes are applied to improve appearance, increase corrosion resistance and enhance wear resistance.
Article Published: 3/2/2011
- Smooth Operators: Attaining Isotropic finish through chemically accelerated vibration
- It seems recently there has been more talk about the advantages of an isotropic, non-directional finish on machined surfaces obtained through a chemically accelerated vibratory process.
Article Published: 3/1/2011