Importance of Ground in Finishing Series

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Importance of Ground in Finishing: FULL VIDEO

Good ground and true earth ground are critical to any electrostatic painting or electrostatic powder application in order to achieve optimum coating efficiencies. Air Power Application Specialist, Travis Stirewalt, and Account Manager Eddie Rhodes discuss tips to help save you hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on reworks and allow you to operate in a safer environment. This video includes all 3 Parts of the “Importance of Ground in Finishing” Series!

 

 

 

Importance of Ground in Finishing Part 1

Good ground and true earth ground are critical to any electrostatic painting or electrostatic powder application in order to achieve optimum coating efficiencies. This Air Power Live Video on Ground can help save you hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on reworks and allow you to operate in a safer environment.

 

 

 

Importance of Ground in Finishing: Part 2

Good ground and true earth ground are critical to any electrostatic painting or electrostatic powder application in order to achieve optimum coating efficiencies. This Air Power Live Video on Ground can help save you hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on reworks and allow you to operated in a safer environment.

 

Importance of Ground in Finishing: Part 3

 

Good ground and true earth ground are critical. Any electrostatic painting or electrostatic powder application requires good ground in order to achieve optimum coating efficiencies. This Air Power Live Video Series on Ground can help save you hundreds to thousands of dollars a year on reworks and allow you to operated in a safer environment.

Filter Conversion to Eliminate Overspray

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Overspray in industrial finishing applications is one of the most common causes of parts being rejected by quality control inspections. This can result in constant costly reworks and low-quality finish on parts. In this case study, Air Power proposes a solution that completely eliminates overspray for this customer.

Customer

Manufacturer of plumbing and water-related fittings and valves

Challenge

This customer was experiencing paint buildup on their booth due to overspray. This was caused by inefficient airflow through the booth. This customer was using an old baffle style booth that uses offset layers of metal to catch the initial overspray and then redirects the overspray into the second layer of filters. As a second layer of filtration, the customer used Styrofoam baffle filters that allowed a high volume of bypass of a mixture of tacky and dry overspray. This type of baffle filter works better with wet paint overspray.

Without proper airflow collecting the overspray in the booth, this customer experienced a higher number of rejected parts, a lower quality finish on products, and paint buildup on their spray booth and surrounding areas.

Overspray build up

Overspray Build-up inside Booth

Air Power Solution

 

Air Power proposed a solution that updated the filtration system to a more efficient style. This solution included completely removing the metal vertical baffles that were the first stage of filtration. The second stage Styrofoam baffle filters were then removed and the 20×20 grid was scraped clean of all the overspray buildup.  Then we installed Kem-Wove P3 20×20 panel filters in the second stage, installed snapper bars on the front of the filter wall, and added RP 3252 paper/poly blankets (RTT Engineered Solutions / Col-Met) as the first stage of filtration to improve overspray capture and airflow.

Baffle Style Filter Wall

Baffle Style Filter Wall

Filter Install

Results

 

This customer was amazed by the change in airflow and overspray capture in their spray booth. This new filtration system collected all the overspray in the booth and allowed nothing to bypass for the first time. These changes improved the painting conditions for operators in the booth, allowing for a higher quality finish on products. This customer is currently in the testing stage with this system to determine the length of life for one layer of filtration to ensure this system is cost-efficient and establish best practices for their finishing operation.

 

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Filter Conversion to Eliminate Overspray

 

 

Dwyer Molded Plastic Manometer Installation

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Dwyer Molded Plastic Manometer Installation

 

Manometers are required on your spray booths. They are also required to be in perfect working order. Air Power Application Specialist, Travis Stirewalt, walks through some basic installation steps and preventative maintenance points for the Dwyer Mark II manometer.

True LED Lighting from Col-Met

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True LED Lighting from Col-Met

 

Proper lighting plays an important role in achieving a high-quality finish. Col-Met’s new E-Light LED lighting offers many advantages over fluorescent lamps such as lower energy usage, exceptionally long life, truer color rendering, improved durability, reduced maintenance costs, and improved safety.

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How to Set Up the Mark II Molded Plastic Manometer with Dwyer

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The Molded Plastic Manometer, Series Mark II, is quick and simple to use. In this video, we show how to set up the Mark II straight out of the box. Series MARK II Molded Manometers are of the inclined and inclined-vertical types. The curved inclined-vertical tube of the Model 25 gage provides higher ranges with more easily read increments at low readings. Dwyer’s Model 25 Manometer is excellent for general purpose work. The Model 40 Manometer with an inclined gage provides linear calibration and excellent resolution throughout its range. Their Model 40 manometer is recommended for air velocity and air filter gage applications.
Contact Your Air Power Account Manager to get a manometer that fits your needs today!

Polyester Filters for Paint, Powder Coating and HVAC

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Polyester Filters for Paint, Powder Coating and HVAC

 

Polyester filters offer exceptional intake and exhaust filtration in paint booths, powder coating booths, sanding booths, AMU air filtration as well as HVAC applications. Join Air Power in a walk through our key polyester filter products and learn which media is the best for your unique application.

W-Series Spray Booth Filters from Col-Met RP

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W Series Spray Booth Filters from Col-Met

 

For many years, manufacturers have relied on Research Products RP paint booth exhaust filters for the efficient capture of overspray paint. The new W Series Filters from Col-Met, the makers of the legacy line of RP filters, has set a new bar in the finishing industry. From the new white face layer to the virgin polyester final layer and a warranty, you really should watch this video. Learn about the new Col-Met W Series filter options available from Air Power, Inc.