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Contamination from mild steel rollers on to stainless steel sheet

What product can be appiled to mild steel rollers to stop contamination between the mild steel rollers and the stainless steel sheets.

Carl Mason
Project Engineer - Bradford, West Yorkshire, England
2004

Powder coating would be the cheapest, fastest way, and perhaps the best.

Dan Weaver
- Toccoa, Georgia
2004

Think about it; processing mills the world over process stainless steel on lines with steel rolls, levelers, cut-to-length, etc., and do not have iron contamination problems. Your type problem most commonly occurs when carbon steel is processed prior to stainless steel without rigorous cleanup prior to processing the stainless. The contamination is not from the steel rolls per se, but from contamination from the previous product(s) run on the line.

Ray B Anderson
- Kent, Ohio
2004