In the past when things were manufactured they would be painted with standard methods. They would be sprayed or a more detailed process with a brush was used. However it became apparent after a while that parts were not getting painted or covered as well as they should have. That means they needed something new, and electrocoating was born.
The process is used because it is literally the best at covering hard to paint areas, and materials that usually have a hard time adhering to other paints. The process uses magnetic charges to make the material actually attract the paint as it is dipped into a large vat of the substance. When it comes out it is completely painted.
On the other hand, you want the paint to be perfect and to be evenly covering every metallic piece that you painted. This is what this process will give you, a near perfect and flawless paint job. As a matter of fact, the plating process produces such fine end results that the most expensive pieces of any bike, car, or anything else will use this method.
The crane would grab and lift the part or collection of parts and slowly dip them into the paint. As it did the electrical and magnetic charge of the parts would actually attract the paint molecules which because of how they were treated previously would have the opposite magnetic charge as the dipped parts. This is how the paint would adhere.
Various airplane parts have also been painted using this method. Because of the need for very low drag and very smooth parts of an airplane, the need for a painting process that could produce such a result was sought after. When they found this method they were very excited about the opportunity to use electrocoating for the airplane parts.
Another advantage of utilizing this method is the cost. You would think that because of the final product and its near perfection on the paint that it would cost a large amount of money. However, this process is a bit cheaper than other methods that are comparable. Even ones that are not. It would be cheaper to coat the gas tank using this method than it would to have an artist airbrush it.
Many of these industry leaders that jumped in were airline manufacturers and auto manufacturers. They were all big name companies and once they gave their okay and approval that these processes were sound and worked great that was all it took for the rest of the manufacturing world to jump in. Then the retail outlets got involved.
These processes started to work so well that other industries and companies started to copy what the airlines were doing. The auto industry soon followed and before you knew it everybody was electrocoating what they could. You could not blame them either because the finished product was just so perfect it was beautiful. As more manufacturers jumped onto the bandwagon it became so common and so widespread that it was not even special anymore. Gun manufacturers were even using it to paint the bodies of their firearms.
The process is used because it is literally the best at covering hard to paint areas, and materials that usually have a hard time adhering to other paints. The process uses magnetic charges to make the material actually attract the paint as it is dipped into a large vat of the substance. When it comes out it is completely painted.
On the other hand, you want the paint to be perfect and to be evenly covering every metallic piece that you painted. This is what this process will give you, a near perfect and flawless paint job. As a matter of fact, the plating process produces such fine end results that the most expensive pieces of any bike, car, or anything else will use this method.
The crane would grab and lift the part or collection of parts and slowly dip them into the paint. As it did the electrical and magnetic charge of the parts would actually attract the paint molecules which because of how they were treated previously would have the opposite magnetic charge as the dipped parts. This is how the paint would adhere.
Various airplane parts have also been painted using this method. Because of the need for very low drag and very smooth parts of an airplane, the need for a painting process that could produce such a result was sought after. When they found this method they were very excited about the opportunity to use electrocoating for the airplane parts.
Another advantage of utilizing this method is the cost. You would think that because of the final product and its near perfection on the paint that it would cost a large amount of money. However, this process is a bit cheaper than other methods that are comparable. Even ones that are not. It would be cheaper to coat the gas tank using this method than it would to have an artist airbrush it.
Many of these industry leaders that jumped in were airline manufacturers and auto manufacturers. They were all big name companies and once they gave their okay and approval that these processes were sound and worked great that was all it took for the rest of the manufacturing world to jump in. Then the retail outlets got involved.
These processes started to work so well that other industries and companies started to copy what the airlines were doing. The auto industry soon followed and before you knew it everybody was electrocoating what they could. You could not blame them either because the finished product was just so perfect it was beautiful. As more manufacturers jumped onto the bandwagon it became so common and so widespread that it was not even special anymore. Gun manufacturers were even using it to paint the bodies of their firearms.
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