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PRETREATMENT TROUBLE SHOOTER

By Dave Wright

Excerpts from 'The Finishing Touch',
the newsletter of the Chemical Coaters Association International.
Reprinted with the kind permission of

Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 1 (improving salt spray performance)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 2 (oil-splitting, phosphating problems)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 3 (flash rust, hard water, mixed metal phosphating)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 4 (iron phosphating)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 5 (cleaning plastics, improving salt spray)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Part 6 (zinc vs. iron phos, rinse water quality)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Fall 96 (mixed metal, water quality)
Pretreatment Trouble Shooter, Spring 97 (smut, residue inhibits paint cure)