Pretreatment

- Surface Must Be Clean

- Anything you don't want to see in the final finish must be removed    from the surface

 - Substrate determines the pretreatment.

 - Wood (No two pieces of wood are alike.)

• Sand

• Fill

• Seal

• Static Electricity

• Follow with finish coating system

 - Plastic (Many types)

• Flash removal

• Clean - detergent/rinse

• Some require adhesion

     -- Promoters

• Sand

• Detack

• Degas

• Static Electricity

• Coating System

 - Metal

• Clean - detergent

• Rinse

• Bond (bonderite)

• DI Rinse

• Aluminum requires etching

• Coating System