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An estimated 68 percent of all coating failures are attributed to poor surface preparation that could have been prevented. By using cleaning technology that can achieve near-white conditions, you can ensure that paint, adhesives, and other coatings achieve maximum quality with less waste.
By: Kumar Balan, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 10/13/09
Hand-held angle grinders, which now are being used more frequently in industries besides metal fabrication and welding, can cause injury if used improperly and without following all safety guidelines. This article covers the safety practices involved when using these grinders with resin-bonded whee...
By: David Smith, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 5/12/09
TPJ's 2009 Industry Award Winner: Plymouth Tube Co.
By: Eric Lundin, Editor - www.thefabricator.com, 1/13/09
Because of thermal distortion, a laser- or plasma-cut part may not perfectly flat. Here, parts leveling helps ensure parts maintain and exceed their flatness requirements.
By: Franck Hirschmann - The FABRICATOR®, 10/28/08
Stainless steel products are used in all parts of our daily life. Certain surface finish expectations must be met, and one of the major challenges in stainless steel treatment is meeting these expectations. The biggest problem has been the time required to rebuild the surface from a weld. While surf...
By: Tom Carroll - www.thefabricator.com, 5/13/08
A company specializing in perforated sheet overcomes deburring issues with an automated system using nonwoven fiber brushes.
By: Tim Heston, Senior Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 1/15/08
TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® (TPJ) recognizes that Lincoln Industries is an industry leader. Lincoln Industries' combination of business management, employee focus, and community participation has earned it the first-ever TPJ Industry Award.
By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® - www.thefabricator.com, 1/15/08
Using a machine to remove burrs from and put a surface finish on sheet metal and plate, also known as deburring and graining, is more complicated than it seems. The factors that go into selecting and setting up a deburring and graining machine are almost as numerous as the factors that cause burrs i...
By: Anthony McCue and Brett Mandes - The FABRICATOR®, 9/11/07
Senior Editor Eric Lundin visited Industrial Hard Chrome, a chrome plater that provides chrome-plated components for hydraulically powered equipment such as graders and backhoes. He traces the company’s development from a plater that provided its services to the paper and pulp industry four decades ...
By: Eric Lundin, Editor, TPJ-The Tube & Pipe Journal® - The FABRICATOR®, 6/12/07
One big challenge in stainless steel tube finishing is the growing expectations about the surface finish. Tools and abrasives have improved to achieve better surface quality in less time. In addition, a trend is for tube finishing methods that address health, safety and the environment.
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - www.thefabricator.com, 5/8/07
More power in grinders gives rise to additional safety concerns. Having twice as much power in the same-size tool has especially increased the industry wide demand for nonlocking paddle switch grinders.
By: Terry Tuerk - www.thefabricator.com, 5/8/07
In early 2005 SPX CONTECH decided to evaluate the abrasive disks used in its 22 workcells for aluminum grinding in its Auburn, Ind., facility. By the end of the year the new disks had increased the number of parts processed and exhibited improved life per disk.
The FABRICATOR®, 3/13/07
Steel wire brushes are essential finishing tools in most metal fabrication shops. Fabricators can take five actions to help improve the performance and life span of these brushes: use the highest safe speed, periodically reverse direction; know when to use crimped or knot wire brushes; keep stainles...
By: Ron Vogt Sr. - The FABRICATOR®, 11/7/06
Manufacturing deep-drawn aluminum containers requires various fabrication steps and provides many opportunities to pollute. Anomatic Corp. provides an overview of its fabricating and finishing steps and describes its efforts at environmentally responsible manufacturing.
By: William Rusch - The FABRICATOR®, 3/7/06
Miller Welding & Machine isn't a typical job shop for a lot of reasons. This family-owned and -operated company, in business since 1963, employs almost everybody in the Miller family -- and tackled its complete inexperience in finishing by investing in a full powder coating and wet paint line in a n...
By: Stephanie Vaughan, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 11/8/05
Triplex Systems found that using abrasive waterjet cutting technology combined with a hole-and-tab technique to fabricate its products helped eliminate machining operations and reduced costs.
By: John H. Olsen, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 7/12/05
For tube producers who need a colored coating with no volatile organic compounds, powder coatings have been the only choice until now. A new process provides this type of coating in a liquid form. The coating dries nearly instantly under ultraviolet light and performs well when subjected to a variet...
By: Brian Maddox - www.thefabricator.com, 7/12/05
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By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 10/12/04
Most plate fabricating companies need to select a coated abrasive to finish their parts. This selection process can be intimidating, as well as confusing, because so many types of coated abrasives are available.
By: Mark Boudreau and Dave Jacoby, Contributing Writers - The FABRICATOR®, 1/29/04
If you are a fabricator of metal parts that need to be primed or painted, then you more than likely will have to prepare the part surface before finishing to produce the desired end result.
By: Mike Gignac, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 10/23/03
The same industry forces of nature—globalization, economic conditions, quality demands, and safety and environmental regulations—that are pressuring metal fabricators to do more, better, and faster with less are blowing no less forcefully on finishing fabricators.
By: Kate Bachman, STAMPING Journal® Editor - The FABRICATOR®, 7/10/03
AAMS needed a way to polish aluminum and stainless steel handrails in two separate construction projects. To get the job done, they turned to a dedicated tube and pipe sander, which allowed them to accomplish the necessary finish in half the time manual polishing would have taken.
By: Tom Carroll, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 10/12/02
Kuntz Electroplating, a Kitchener, Ontario-based independent OEM chrome-plating supplier of automotive wheels and bumpers, the management watched as hundreds of its workers manually polished its wheels. Because this made it difficult for the company to find, train, and retain the workers it needed, ...
By: Martin Step, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 7/25/02
This article describes the characteristics of perchloroethylene and suitable applications.
By: James A. Mertens, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 5/30/02
This article highlights two of the accepted industry specifications, which are provided by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC). It covers many of the more salient topics, point by point, and explains them in detail.
By: William Corbett, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 4/15/02
This article highlights two of the accepted industry specifications, which are provided by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC). It covers many of the more salient topics, point by point, and explains them in detail.
By: William Corbett, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 3/14/02
Learn how Gauthier Industries, a stamper and powder coater, organized its powder coating operation into control points to help regulate quality and efficiency as parts move through the finishing process. Areas discussed include pretreatment, the paint booth, inspection, and tips for efficiency.
By: Mike Jensen, Contributing Writer - www.thefabricator.com, 7/26/01
The article circulates around the different media styles for mass finishing systems, discussing the cost, weight, and ability of each style. The styles discussed are divided into several areas: Random versus preform shapes; ceramic versus plastic; spherical shapes versus angular shapes versus hybrid...
By: A.F. Kenton, Contributing Writer - The FABRICATOR®, 5/30/01
A lot of advancements have been made in liquid coatings over the past 30 years toward the ultimate goal of zero-volatile-organic-compound paints. Anyone having to meet environmental regulations could benefit from knowing what has been done and what is brewing in the industry.
By: Henry W. Godshalk, Khin Htay Htay, Francis Slama, Ph.D., and Peter Smelyansky, Contributing Writers - The FABRICATOR®, 5/30/01
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