How To Get Smooth Liquid Coatings
Q. What could be the reasons I cannot seem to get my coating smooth enough for my application?
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How to Improve Liquid Corrosion Resistance
Q. How can we improve the desired corrosion resistance expected from our coating?
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How to Stop Rust
Q. We make automated pay stations for parking lots, the machines that allow the customer to pay at the exit with a credit card or cash. We have had some problems with rust breaking out of the seams at the base and around the door panels that provide access to the interior of the machine. The machine works fine but customers are not happy with visible rust. We have tried to apply more coating but it will not penetrate the tight creases in these areas. We also have rust on the edges of the door frame and the door. What can we do to avoid this problem?
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Celebrating the First 80 Years
Oak is the traditional gift for someone turning 80 years old, as it symbolizes longevity and strength, two hallmarks of what we feel our magazine has been with the surface finishing industry since its debut in 1936.
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Parts Cleaning: The Basics of Bases and Acids
Small changes in the pH of a cleaning bath can make the difference in achieving effective cleaning.
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Parts Cleaning: Understanding the Process of Vacuum Cycling Nucleation
VCN process is accomplished by reducing the total pressure in a controlled-environment chamber that contains the components to be cleaned submerged in a solvent or an aqueous solution.
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Liquid Coatings Q&A: How to Effectively Use PLCs
What are some of the most effective uses of programmable logic controllers in a coating operation?
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Electrodeposition of Ni-Fe-Mo-W Alloys - Part 10
Tenth Quarterly Report - AESF Research Project #R-117. This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the tenth quarter of project work (April-June 2015). In this period, Graduate student Avinash Kola has continued work on the influence of deposition conditions on the properties of the Ni-W alloys.
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Understanding Corrosion and Salt Spray
How it’s produced, NSS testing and how to get the best results possible.
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Plating Q&A: When to Add Replenishers
When is it proper to skip adding a replenisher? Coventya’s Brad Durkin explains.
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Tips from the Pros on How to Maximize Your Sale Price
What are the do’s and don’ts of selling a business?
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The Characterization of the Stannous Chloride/ Palladium Chloride Catalysts for Electroless Plating
The paper is a 1975 study of just how the tin chloride / palladium chloride system worked for plated plastics, and which systems were most effective in doing the job.
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Low Temperature Curing of Hydrogen Silsesquioxane Surface Coatings for Corrosion Protection of Aluminum
This paper discusses vitreous enameling of hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ).
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The Study of Copper Anodes in Acid and Cyanide Plating Baths
The 1956 Carl E. Huessner Gold Medal Award was given to Charles Faust and William H Safranek for Best Paper appearing in Plating or the AES Technical Proceedings in 1955, and their paper is republished here in a series on the AES/AESF/NASF Best Paper Awards. Their work involves an evaluation of anodes for copper plating at the time when OFHC anodes were first emerging in use.
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Some Contributions of U.S. Supply Houses to Plating Science and Technology - The 11th William Blum Lecture
This paper is a re-publication of the 11th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 57th AES Annual Convention in Montréal, Québec, on June 22, 1970. The origins of several developments in the plating field are reviewed, showing why and how the processes and concepts evolved, with particular attention to inside stories and the people concerned.
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How to Compete with Other Coaters
Follow up dialogue to "Best Possible Pretreament"...
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The Nucleation Dependent Growth Layer: A Structure Element in Electrocrystallization - The 10th William Blum Lecture
This paper is a re-publication of the 10th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 56th AES Annual Convention in Detroit, Michigan, on June 16, 1969.
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Painting 101
I need a finish that is both easily applied and durable. Do you know of anything?
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Mechanism of the Plating Process - The 8th William Blum Lecture
This paper is a re-publication of the 8th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 54th AES Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas, on June 19, 1967. Dr. Henry B. Linford discussed the transition of electroplating from an art to a science as the mechanism of the plating process became better understood.
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Vertical Acid Copper Plating for PCB Manufacturing
Developments expand in the world of printed circuit boards.
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