Hiya,
Used to work allover UK installing finishing plants etc
Powder plants eg........
start/degreaser cleaner/rinser/drier/powder booth-s (charged electrostatic) then into the bake oven/end
On most well more like 99% of plant installs we did the owners etc opted for a "wet" (wet spray system also)
This enabled mass powder coating at efficient-cheaper rates per item and switched to Wet type when the runs were uneconomical or very small etc
We worked in a variety of major companies eg Ford/JCB/Newsift/Lawrence Scott
Some plants were huge i mean 100ds of foot long (Lawrence Scott in norwich was a mass of factory roofs with 1 ulmighty open floor space, Had a rail system in there to shift stuff around, Always rem when we were waiting for some parts and we would see who could push a wagon the furthest from a 6ft run up lmao)
Done kilns/spray booth (cars etc)
Moved whole plants from england n shipped em to belfast n portadown etc
Basic is....Start = hanging part on some form of hook or jig on a overhead rail system, This chaining moves at a set speed (real slow so powder don't shake/drop off etc) (1.5hrs sat on a jig going around lawrence scotts new plant (i was nominated to go thru all the processes to check for probs lol))
It will make its way through a "pretreatment-degreaser-rust remover" mix of various chemicals, Some setups we installed had say 4 acid baths as we called em he he, It will then go thru at least 1 dryoff oven or maybe a few depending on what the plant was mainly designed for, It then goes to powder/wet station, Powder charged, Generally you aim and the gun/s spray the powder out and the opp charged part/s attract it (we had fun also messing n seeing who could get the furthest away n still coat stuff lol) From here it makes its way to the bake oven, this on average plants is like 80ft long, In there the powder is heated etc and then it returns to a exit/pickup point or to the start (depends layout etc as i say)
That's basicly the plant
Wet as i say is used instead of powder station if required
Got a plan here of a small plant we did in scotland well i think it was scotland, We did that many i lost track
After getting used to working "away from home" i loved the job and the money was great (though the hotel bar took a hefty slice lmao)
Any more info just ask
