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Lacquer coating our line of stainless garden furniture

Can I coat lacquer on the stainless steel surface for garden furniture? Would it help to protect from dirt and rust contamination?

Buppha
garden furniture - Prapradaeng, Samutprakarn, Thailand
2004

2004

Hello,

The best coating systems for stainless steel furniture would be urethane or polyester, both are available in powder and wet paints.

Jake Koch
G. J. Nikolas &Co.,Inc.

Bellwood, Illinois

Hi,

I am informed by our clients who coat stainless steel that it is one of the most difficult substrates to obtain adhesion - the coating film results in a envelope without good adhesion

adv.
- they use our waterbourne primer sold in the UK to overcome this problem.

To check adhesion cross hatch a section of your coated work apply some masking tape and pull this off quickly - none removal of the coating = good adhesion - try again on the same item after 3, 6 & 12 months outside exposure.

Terry Hickling
Birmingham, United Kingdom
2004

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