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To protect them against harsh weather conditions, exposed parts require a paint, lacquer or anodised coating of a certain thickness. Accurately inspecting the coating thickness is a challenge for the ...

With 21st Century high-tech lacquer coatings, lacquer thinner is not always lacquer thinner. If all lacquer thinners were the same, adding a little bit more would be easy. But, it’s not. As most folks ...

In my first two blogs, I discussed that lacquer thinner is actually a combination of different chemicals. These chemicals fall into two categories. They can be diluent solvents and, thus, dilute the ...

A research team at the University of Nevada, Reno has developed a new environmentally-friendly coating for aluminum to replace the carcinogenic chromate coatings used in aerospace applications. The ...

Metals may seem tough, but given enough time even plain old air can be their undoing. Oxygen reacts with it to form metal oxides like rust, but now it turns out a metal oxide may come to the rescue.