[AT] Automatic parts washer please!

[charliehill]

Steve that is what I figured out about the powder coat biz.  1) you can't be 
in it small time.  and  2) you can hardly afford to be in it if you don't 
have something of your own that needs coating. (a product you manufacture)

It can be done on a small time basis but not with the level of quality 
control and cost control the big boys have.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Automatic parts washer please!


> charliehill wrote:
>> Steve there was a speaker at one meeting that worked for a huge powder
>> coating facility in TN.  They powder coat any and everything right down 
>> to
>> the cell phone cases and the handles on razors.  Anyway he shared a story
>> about some fairly large metal item (something of bbq grill or dishwasher
>> size) that they were having small random coating failures on.  They could
>> not figure it out until one day someone noticed that some of the workers
>> were wearing those silicone rubber bracelets we often see now, usually as 
>> a
>> symbol for some charity like breast cancer research etc.   They got to
>> looking into it and figured out that if one of those bracelets just
>> casually brushed against the metal it would put enough "oil" on the 
>> surface
>> to cause the failure.  They banned folks from wearing the bracelets and 
>> the
>> problem went away.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> Not an uncommon thing. We did a LOT of different items in the shop. GM,
> Ford, Chrysler parts, Stuff for Carrier, AM General Hummer parts, We
> even had the contract on the Mercury Marine ZR-1 intakes and valve
> bodies. Turbine seals for GM, Fork truck parts for Raymond lifts, Plus a
> few thousand other items.
>
> Lot's of fun. My former boss would have been at that show as well. They
> are running on a shoestring now because a lot of places have installed
> powder lines.
>
> -- 
> Steve W.
>
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