Industrial heat treating operations for metal involve the removal of coatings from metal before it enters the furnace. Unless coatings are removed, they are likely to oxidize and tarnish the appearance of the workpieces. This concern is especially pertinent to heat...
Vapor degreasing is a process in which various types of components are cleaned to remove surface accumulations of grease and similarly constituted substances. In some cases, the procedure is performed as a finishing process to prepare components for further finishing...
In the cleaning solution industry, the term “wetting” refers to a liquid’s ability to remain in contact with a solid surface after it is applied — a bond between the substances that results from intermolecular interactions; specifically, a “force balance between...
Most of us have heard the expression that something is as “boring as watching paint dry.” While no one seems to be officially credited with creating this popular simile, it seems to have been created at a time when commercial painting projects didn’t benefit from the...
Some classes of solvents dry at roughly the same rate, but air-dry solvents offer a multitude of different dry times, with the ideal drying period ranging from a few seconds to a few weeks, depending on the needs of the end user. The optimal dry time for air-dry...
