Finishing Talk Forums - The Online Surface Finishing Community - Filler problem http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/topic642$2.html The most recent posts in Filler problem. Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:53:46 +0000 PunBB Re: Filler problem http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post3046.html#p3046 <p>JB Weld. If there deep scratches this will help. Works great for powder coating</p> info@finishingtalk.com (Donny) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:53:46 +0000 http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post3046.html#p3046 Re: Filler problem http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post1486.html#p1486 A popular pretreatment for powdercoating is to media blast the parts. If you do this "heavy" enough, you should be able to remove the grind lines. Being a former supplier of phosphating supplies and chemicals, I would also recommend that you phosphate your parts, too. You could electroplate the parts to help fill in the lines, but I think that would be pretty costly. You could polish and/or belt sand the parts to reduce the size of the lines to where the powdercoating will cover them. You could electropolish the parts, which is generally done on harder substrates than plain steel, but it would still work nonetheless. You could try to fill in the deep gouges with metal by using lead or another welding process like TIG. However, on sheetmetal and thin metals in general, warpage does become a problem. Just be careful when you powdercoat over the part. Different metals expand and contract differently and this may cause some other issue to occur. How are you getting the gouges in the first place? Often, it is better to correct the root cause of the problem than to fix it after the fact. There is a powdercoating school going around the US that is GREAT for new and experienced people alike. I attended the LA school last year as a vendor/sponsor/attendee and learned a ton. It is highly recommended. There is usually a troubleshooting session towards the end of the class where you can ask any questions you have. And many people sneak in their questions during the regular portion of the class, too. :D info@finishingtalk.com (DustinGebhardt) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:52:28 +0000 http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post1486.html#p1486 Filler problem http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post1485.html#p1485 Hello all:) My name is Jesse Wagner. I run a company that makes signs and various metal products. Custom ordered on the internet. I just took over a powder coating division of a previous employer and now am learning as much as possible about powder coating. Anyways I have this problem with my signs that is frustrating to say the least. I have metal grind marks in the signs which causes a problem when the powder coating is baked on and shows through. It looks horrible and I have found that there is not really any product out there to fill in these imperfections. [u]Does anyone know of something that I can do to fix these gouges?[/u] Anyone got any ideas as how to fix this? Can a person maybe lead these imperfections and would this be a problem for the sign as far as warpage? Appreciate any ideas. Thanks. info@finishingtalk.com (jessewag) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:33:47 +0000 http://www.finishingtalk.com/community/post1485.html#p1485