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Bleed Through in White Powder Coat

Q. I've sent some aluminum plates out for powder coating white that have bleed through problems with the mill identification markings printed on the plates. We've tried various solvents to remove the markings, but things like acetone and MEK don't even begin to remove them. Our only recourse was to lightly sand them off. That creates two problems for us; it's labor intensive and risks damage to the plates by overzealous sanding. This would seem to be a fairly common problem, but I have not found through searches online that that is the case. At this point, the powder coat is as thick as I can accept (about 10 mils) and I can't imagine more coats would solve the problem anyway. So is there a treatment that would help, or maybe a primer coat that could be applied beforehand? Is there a "powder primer"?

Don Cooke
Engineer - Nicholasville, Kentucky
February 15, 2012

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