The Filter Games: Complete Series
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A test of your paint filter knowledge in three rounds. Can you guess the correct answers?
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Filter Games: Round 1
Join Air Power for Round 1 of The Filter Games!
A test of your paint booth filter knowledge in three rounds. Can you guess the correct answer?
The Filter Games: Round 2
Join Air Power for Part 2 of The Filter Games. A test of your paint booth filter knowledge in three rounds. Can you guess the correct answer?
The Filter Games: Round 3
Join Air Power for Part 3 of The Filter Games. A test of your paint booth filter knowledge in three rounds. Can you guess the correct answer?
Improving Your Electrostatic Process
Improving Your Electrostatic Liquid or Powder Coating Process
In this video, Air Power Specialist Travis Stirewalt and Account Manager Eddie Rhodes, share tips about improving your electrostatic process. Learn how to improve your electrostatic process with expert advice for powder coaters and liquid painters. Discuss best practices that help you put more powder or paint on your parts and less in your filters or the paint booth floor. What does this mean for you? Higher transfer efficiency and less paint (money) wasted by increasing your first pass transfer efficiency. Video from the Air Power, Inc. Chattanooga Branch.
Gema OptiFlex Pro Virtual Demo
Gema OptiFlex Pro Virtual Demo
The GEMA OptiFlex Pro is the latest advancement in powder coating application technology. In this video, Eddie Rhodes, Air Power Account Manager in Tennessee, walks you through the new Gema OptiFlex Pro powder coating handgun, the controller and explains the first-ever power gun with powerboost that provides 110 kV and 110 microamps application support.
Tech Tip: Dedicating Your Manual Powder Hose
Dedicating Your Powder Hose
Dedicating your powder hose specific to your color and special type of powder can save you time in color changes and prevent costly rejects. It can speed up your paint process, eliminate powder contamination and reduce clean up time. If you are frequently changing your powder color throughout the day, this is a great way to quickly and easily eliminate pain points and improve your application process.
Cartridge Filters Explained: Powder and Dust Cartridge Filters
Cartridge Filters Explained
Cartridge Filters for powder booths, blast booths, dust collection and smoke eaters is essential to a clean operation. Learn details about cartridge filters and properly selecting replacements.
How to Get Started with Gema OptiFlex E-App
How to Get Started with Gema OptiFlex Pro E-App
The Gema E-APP paired with the OptiStar 4.0 Control Unit puts powerful information at your fingertips on your Apple or Android phone or tablet. Update software, change gun settings, manage run time, monitor powder output and keep an eye on powder usage. All this information is available to you through a single APP. If that’s not enough, you can also create and send PDF documents straight to your email from your device.
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Gema OptiFlex Pro: Power. Quality. Control.
Introducing the NEW Gema OptiFlex Pro:
POWER. QUALITY. CONTROL.
The NEW Gema OptiFlex Pro is here. Air Power’s Travis Stirewalt shows off the OptiFlex Pro features and upgrades including the gun, control unit and the E-App.
Power: Maximum coating performance
The newly developed PowerBoost technology of the OptiFlex Pro series offers with the 110 kV the highest powder charging capacity in the powder coating industry while complying with safety regulations. The operator benefits from an outstanding coating performance.
Quality: Best application results
With OptiFlex Pro you coat extremely efficiently and with consistently high quality. The PCC (Precise Charge Control) mode regulates the spray current even in the lowest ampere ranges (0-10 μA) with the highest accuracy. This prevents overcharging of even the most demanding powders such as metallic powder and ensures the highest quality in thick film and multi-layer applications and recess areas.
Control: Master the application!
The new features of OptiFlex Pro also give you a technological edge. The Electrostatic App (E-App) with the integrated line management functions and service features make the coating process transparent and better controllable.
So You Want to Powder Coat?
What You Need To Know Before You Begin a Powder Coating Business
Have you thought about opening up your own powder coating business or adding powder coating to your manufacturing mix? This video with powder experts Eddie Rhodes and Travis Stirewalt will walk you through very important things to think about as you take that next step.
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Tech Tips: Gema Powder Coating
Air Power Live Tech Tips
We’ve put together some helpful how-tos to help you powder coat like a PRO! Check out these informational tech tips:
Powder Coating Gun Corona Field Explained
Proper positioning of a powder coating gun while powder coating your parts helps the proper powder cloud optimize proper transfer efficiency and even coating of the powder coating finish. Learn about the corona field and how utilizing proper powder coating cloud positioning can help achieve not only a better finish, but save you money on costly rejects and over use of powder.
Gema OptiStar Controls
Gema OptiStar controls and presets are easily explained for optimum powder coating performance.
Checking Wear Parts on a Gema OptiFlex 2 Powder Unit
Maintaining easy to replace Gema OptiFlex gun, hose and pump wear parts from a preventive maintenance perspective yields high transfer efficiency, powder savings and a reduction in part rejects.
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