Powder Coat or Rust Bullet Coatings? Rust Bullet Coatings – Your Best Option Powder coating, a free-flowing dry powder is typically applied electrostatically and cured in high heat specialty ovens. Due to its powder form this coating does not require a solvent to keep the binder and filler parts in
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Technical
Pipeline Coatings
Specifications and Standards for Pipeline Coatings Pipeline Coatings Application The entire realm of Pipeline Coatings is so vast it is difficult to know where to begin. Some of the topics with which you may want to become familiar are; * Fluid Pipelines (Oil, Water, etc) * Gas Pipelines * Exterior
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Coatings & Application Engineer’s Report
Rust Bullet Formulas vs Zinc-Based Coating Rust Bullet Formulas – A Comparative Study – 12.03.07 1. Tnemec Paint is based on Zinc or Zinc-varied chemical forms to act as a scarifying anode protection. This technology is decades old and is effective but is not without its drawbacks. Like all Zinc
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Surface Coating
What is a Surface Coating? Kinds of Surface Coating Surface coating is a substance applied to other materials to change the surface properties, such as color, gloss, resistance to wear or chemical attack, or permeability, without changing the bulk properties. Surface coatings include such materials as paints, varnishes, enamels, oils,
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RUST BULLET – A BETTER CHOICE
Rust Bullet, The Leader in Rust Inhibitive Coatings What Makes Rust Bullet A Market Leader? A coating is a barrier used to separate two highly reactive materials. Coatings must be a completely continuous film to fulfill its function. Rust Bullet, LLC was formed February of 2001 in Reno, Nevada, where
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Understanding Airless Spray Tips
Airless Spray Tips 101 Airless Spray Specifications and Guidelines The relationship of the tip opening (orifice) to spray pattern size is: Given a constant width (fan), the larger the orifice, the more material the sprayer will apply. Given a constant orifice size, an increasing fan width will apply a thinner
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Airless Sprayers: Spray Your Way To A Better Finish
Using Airless Sprayers Effectively A Guide on Airless Sprayers by Joe May Airless sprayers are a must for many contractors these days—and, for features and durability, the current crop of models is hard to beat. Today’s sprayers are lightweight, versatile workhorses that can deliver a wide range of high-quality finishes
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Adhesion Testing Methods
Guide on Adhesion Testing Methods How To Perform Adhesion Testing For coatings to perform satisfactorily, they must adhere to the substrates on which they are applied. A variety of recognized methods can be used to determine how well a coating is bonded to the substrate. Commonly used measuring techniques are
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Wet Abrasive Blast Cleaning – Joint Technical Report
What is Wet Abrasive Blast Cleaning? Wet Abrasive Blast Cleaning: An SSPC and NACE Joint Technical Report SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) and NACE International (NACE) issue this report in conformance with the best current technology regarding the specific subject. This report represents a consensus of those individual
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Protective Coating Specifications for Atmospheric Service
Preparation of Protective Coating Specifications for Atmospheric Service A Joint Protective Coating Specifications by SSPC and NACE This SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC)/NACE International (NACE) report represents a consensus of those individual members who have reviewed this document, its scope, and provisions. Its acceptance does not in any
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