Tuesday, June 3, 2014

CHANGE THE GAME!! BATH TUB REFINISHING SUPPLY by COGENT COATINGS

COGENT COATINGS IS CHANGING THE GAME FOR               BATHTUB REFINISHING 

In an effort to produce the best possible customer experience as well as service we have upgraded our packaging methods by including foil seals on all of our bottles . This upgrade will insure that you have the very best and most fresh supply in the industry. 

Reasons that foil sealing is useful



There are a variety of reasons to use Foil sealing:

  • Tamper Evidence
 CONTAINER MOUTH FOIL SEALS. Paper, thermal plastic, plastic film, foil, or a combination thereof, is sealed to the mouth of a container (e.g., bottle) under the cap. The seal must be torn or broken to open the container and remove the product. The seal cannot be removed and reapplied without leaving visible evidence of entry. Seals applied by induction to plastic containers appear to offer a higher degree of tamper-resistance than those that depend on an adhesive to create the bond…”

Leak prevention/protection



 prevent hazardous chemicals from spilling on other shipments.

Freshness

Foil sealing keeps unwanted pollutants from seeping into products, and  assist in extending shelf life of products.as well as assists in keeping precious solvents in there place.

No skimming

Foil sealed containers help prevent the product from being broken into by leaving noticeable damage on the liner itself. ; letting the you know there was a liner breach on the plastic bottle.

Sustainability

In some applications, Foil sealing can be considered to contribute towards sustainability goals by allowing lower bottle weights as the pack relies on the presence of an induction foil seal for its security, rather than a mechanically strong bottle neck and closure.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Preventative chip protection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46WmHdd5Y_g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Thursday, October 24, 2013

THE HOLY GRAIL IN BATHTUB COATINGS.

What are the differences between tub coatings???

We at COGENT COATINGS In an effort to produce the best possible coatings need info and feed back. 
What makes YOUR coating work for YOU??? Is it price, ease of use, availability, dry time, mix ratio??? so on and so on ............

Remember that WE CAN control the products we use and if WE CAN put together all of the things we want out of a coating into one product then WE will have truly created the HOLY GRAIL of bathtub coatings.

Please post YOUR comments and feel free to say what YOU don't like as well. Please dont use product names as WE don't want to pick any fights or hurt any feelings. This is an effort to produce superior coatings at affordable prices FOR US BY US!!


Remember
 STRENGTH IN NUMBERS---- Produces RESULTS IN ACTIONS!!!!

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Why am I getting Orange Peel…HELP!!!


Posted by: FUJI
Why am I getting Orange Peel is one of the most common questions we get asked at FUJI Spray.
Orange peel is a certain kind of finish that may develop on painted and cast surfaces, even screen protectors. The texture resembles the surface of the skin of an orange (fruit).”
Paint sprayed on a smooth surface (such as the body of a car or the surface of a furniture piece or cabinet) should dry into a smooth surface. At times various factors can cause it to dry into a bumpy surface resembling this texture.
Orange Peel can be prevented altogether by changing the painting technique or the properties of the material being used.
Here is a quick checklist to consider if you are experiencing orange peel….
1.    Does the material being sprayed need to be thinned?
§  As a rule of thumb most materials need to be thinned.
2.    How wide of a fan are you spraying and how far away are you from the surface?
§  Usually 4-5” wide from 6-8” inches away works best.
3.    Are you moving the gun properly?
§  Moving the gun like an Orchestra Conductor, with a loose wrist works best.
4.    Are you overlapping correctly?
§  We suggest that you should aim to overlap 1/3 – 1/2 with each pass
The number one issue for orange peel is that the material is too thick.
To remedy this, add more thinner (or appropriate solvent) to the mixture. For fast drying products such as lacquers, you may also want to add a lacquer slowing agent such as Floetrol. This will slow the drying time allowing the material to flow out and level nicely.
With the newer water-based materials orange peel is usually a result of spraying on too thick of a film. Try spraying an extremely THIN FILM, but still WET coat. A wet coat being “no dry spots that you think will flow together” and at the other end “no puddles or runs”.
Remember don’t turn the air down too much.  The more air used, the finer the atomisation will be.
This is why we suggest leaving the air control valve fully open when experimenting with a new coating material, otherwise it will cause confusion. If the air control valve is fully open (or perhaps removed for Latex spraying) then orange peel can only be one cause – our number one factor, the material being sprayed is too thick and must be thinned.

Spraying takes practice (both with the gun and the material you are working with). No one can be a master finisher on their first attempt. As they say “practice makes perfect”.  Happy Spraying!!

How to Avoid Getting a Speeding Ticket and Myths

We Refinishers Are Exposed To Tickets More Than The Average Joe. Traffic Cop Tells All: How to Avoid Getting a Speeding Ticket (and Other Tips)
Okay, so the best way to avoid getting a speeding ticket is not to speed, but you knew that. What you really want to know is, how do you speed and not get a ticket?
By Matt Peckham 
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Matthias Clamer / Getty Images
Okay, so the best way to avoid getting a speeding ticket is not to speed, but you knew that. What you really want to know is, how do you speed and not get a ticket?
One way: Go 189 m.p.h. That’s insane, of course, and you’d have to be to drive that fast anywhere not a speedway or the Bonneville Salt Flats, but according to former traffic cop Mike Brucks, that’s what it took for him to let a speeder go.
“I clocked a guy on a crotch-rocket bike doing 189 mph,” said Brucks in an interview with Popular Mechanics. “Just let him go. Since police departments began to get sued for chasing speeders, around 1995, there’s a fine line. You have to determine if you can catch him, if chasing him will cause an accident for him, for you, for the public. There’s no way to catch anyone like that.”
After working as a military traffic cop for six years, Brucks joined the El Paso Police Department where he dueled with speeders for 22 years from the back of Kawasakis and Harley-Davidsons before retiring last May. Over the course of his career, he says he issued nearly 40,000 tickets. Why motorcycles? Because they trump cars when it comes to catching speeders: You can accelerate faster, says Bruck, and they’re easier to navigate through traffic.
What were his favorite hiding places? Overpasses and bridges on freeways, but even then, he notes, location was everything: “If there are a lot of exits, I can miss [a speeder] who can maybe get off at an exit, and then it’s too late to catch him.”
A lot of people assume, rightly or wrongly, that the margin over the posted limit you can speed before a traffic cop’s going to bother is around 10 m.p.h. For Bruck, it was more like 20 m.p.h., at least in areas he says had “a lot of visibility,” though it sounds like anything exceeding 80 m.p.h. was cause for pursuit. ”Above 75 mph things just happen so fast, [whether it's] a flat tire, a coyote, wind, dirt, or rocks,” he says. “It’s not that much better now that cars are safer; reaction times are still the same.”
While talking your way out of a ticket is probably next to impossible, Bruck says someone speeding to get to a family member just sent to the hospital might do the trick. Also: if you’re tracking down your spouse, who’s having (or about to have) an affair.
“I clocked a woman coming down from New Mexico on Highway 54 at 111 mph,” says Bruck. “She had just been stopped for going 90 mph 15 minutes [earlier] in New Mexico … She had been crying, and the tears didn’t just start — they’d been going on a long time, you can tell. She was on her way to a motel in El Paso to catch her husband who was shacked up with another woman there, cheating. How do you write a ticket for that?”
Try this:
Pull your license and insurance papers out and put them on the dash in front of you before he gets out of his car or off his bike. Put your hands on your head or the dash in front of the wheel. Apologize for making him stop you and explain that you know traffic stops are fraught with danger and tell the truth about your speeding. If it is dark don't forget to turn your interior lights on before reaches your vehicle in addition to everything else.

Check out these myths:
6 Myths That Are NOT Going
To Help You Win Your Case
(Avoid This Loser Advice!)
Let’s just debunk a few myths quickly. This should save you from spending money on ridiculous scams and relying on faulty tactics.
Myth #1:
I wasn’t really speeding and the officer will have to tell the truth (I have notes).
Nope. He won’t. You can’t hope to challenge the officer’s recollection of the events.
If there were three other cars and a truck coming down the road at the same time as you, he will say there was only one and he will be believed.
(You don’t think the court is going to take your word, or the word of your biased witness, against his, do you? I hope not.)
Myth #2:
There is a mistake on my ticket.
Possible. But it must be a fatal flaw and not an immaterial mistake. If the license plate # is wrong but the officer identifies your car – you lose.
If your name is spelled wrong – you still lose. If the ticket says a Grey Saab and you have a red pick-up – you win that one. (Save your money and don’t buy the book.)
Myth #3:
Try to get your case postponed hoping the officer doesn’t show.
When the officer does show up, what do you do then?
(There’s actually a book out there that advocates finding out when the officer is on vacation and trying to schedule the trial then. Sure, the cops at the station will be happy to hand out their work and vacation schedules. Why not ask them for addresses and their kid’s schools while you’re at it!)
Myth #4:
Claim “Speeding out of necessity”, or some other “can’t fail” excuse.
(There better be someone bleeding in your back seat to make this one work.)
Myth #5:
Plea bargain to go to traffic school.
Why in the world would you want to do that when you can get 100% off? Most pleas fall on deaf ears. These folks go through case after case after case and have heard it all before.
If they are willing to negotiate, they will ask you.
(Unless of course you like pleading with hard-asses and hope to be allowed to go to traffic school as a remote prize).
Myth #6:
I can trip up the officer through my clever questions and reduce his credibility.
If you are really, really good, you may catch Officer Stone on some inconsistency. But it is highly doubtful you can beat him this way.
He is trained and does this all the time. Remember, the court is on his side.
So if you thought any of the above tricks were going to get you off, think again.
Gimmicks don’t work.
The above information was taken from the Speeding Ticket Fixer web-site



Choosing the Correct Air Cap Set

Here are some suggestions from FUJI SPRAY


Choosing the correct air cap set for your HVLP spray gun can sometimes be a chore. Not to mention when your selection may be the wrong one, then it would become a over the years through trial and error and by speaking to our distributors and customers headache.
Some of our customer inquiries at Fuji Spray are related to air cap selection. Therefore, we have compiled a few simple guidelines when selecting the correct air cap set for the job you are finishing.
For the most part when answering such customer questions we often suggest one of the following air cap sets:
  • 1.0 mm
  • 1.3 mm
  • 1.8 mm

1.0 mm Air Cap Set:

The 1.0 mm which is our fine to medium output is great for most fine finishing including many water-based / borne coatings. It allows for a thinner, wet coat to be applied. It is also good when using nitrocellulose lacquers, sealer, cellulose, acrylics, synthetics, polyurethane, stains, varnish, and primers.

1.3 mm Air Cap Set:

Our standard air cap set is the 1.3mm which is ideal for most fine finishing products. This air cap set is also great for when using nitrocellulose lacquers, water-based finishes, varnish, urethanes, enamel, latex for louver doors, trims and cabinets, and oil based paints.

1.8mm Air Cap Set:

The 1.8 mm is our high output air cap set. It is ideal for larger surfaces, and thicker layers. It is also great when using catalyzed lacquers, primers, varnish, urethanes, enamel, industrial coating (higher viscosity), sealers, polyurethane, oil based paints, epoxy enamels, plastic, adhesives, floor paving paints, latex (walls), splatter paints and multi fleck paints.
Over the years we have found that for the most part set ups ranging from 1.0mm-1.5mm should be ideal for most fine finishing applications.
To take the headache out of guessing wrong, located on our website at tubklass.com is the completed Fuji Quick Reference Sheet illustrating the guidelines and finish usage for air cap set ranging from 0.8mm to our highest at 2.5mm. You can also find additional information on finish problems & solutions, viscosity cup index and spray patterns.
Not every setup will be identical for every user. Other considerations include; percentage of thinning, temperature, humidity, location, elevation above sea water, strength of the turbine motor, and distance of the spray gun from the work in progress.
Always remember that these are guidelines and experimentation is always the best way to decide which set up works best in the end.
Happy Spraying!

Thursday, October 10, 2013

10 Things Employees Want More Than a Raise

 

Making big money is often less important to employees than satisfying these basic needs.
 
Contrary to popular belief, employees value many things more than the amount of money they're being paid.  If they're treated right, employees will not only work for less, they'll be happier and more productive as they do so.
Based upon hundreds of conversations I've had about bosses and jobs, here's what employees really want:
1. To feel proud.
When asked what they do for a living, employees want to boast rather than apologize. They want the people they meet to be at least a little impressed, even if it's only because the employee has taken on a job that's generally thankless.
2. To be treated fairly.
While almost everyone realizes that life isn't fair, employees don't want the boss to make life more unfair than it already is.  Employees hate favoritism.  They expect the perks and promotions to go to the people who work hard, not the people who kiss butt.
3. To respect the boss.
Employees want respect from the boss, of course, but just as strong is the need to feel respectfor the boss!  Employees want to believe in that their boss is a leader who is worthy of their loyalty.
4. To be heard out.
Employees hate it when the boss doesn't have the time or the interest to listen to what they have to say. Employees don't expect the boss to always take their advice, but if the boss won't hear them out they (rightly) assume the boss doesn't care about them.
5. To have a personal life.
For many bosses (especially entrepreneurs) work is a way of life.  Employees, however, usually think of friends and family as their "real" life.  Even when they're committed to their job, they get twitchy when work keeps them away too much.
6. To be coached not micromanaged.
Employees want the boss's help when 1) they ask for it, or 2) they're floundering so badly they're afraid to ask for it.  What employees don't want is to have the boss looking over their shoulder all the time.
7. To see the assh*les get fired.
In almost every workplace there are one or two jerks who make life miserable for everybody.  Almost more than anything else, employees want the boss to fire those jerks. If the boss doesn't, employees know he's either a weakling, a fool, or a jerk himself.
8. To feel less stress.
People hate the sense that they've got too much to do and not enough time to do it. Bosses must plan carefully, anticipate problems and set realistic goals, so that they don't accidentally and unnecessarily add stress to employees' lives.
9. To have a little security.
No sane employee expects lifetime employment.  Even so, it's hard to concentrate when you feel as if a sword is hanging over your head. Employees want to know that they're not wasting their time when they're giving your their best.
10. To beat the competition.
Finally, never underestimate the power of teamwork, especially when teamwork means grinding the other team into the dust.  Employees don't want to be team players; they want to play on the winning team.
Why isn't money on the list of desires? Well, as it happens, I've seldom heard anybody complain about their salary per se, except in the context of the above desires (i.e. "they don't pay me enough to put up with this.")
Satisfy the ten desires above and your employees will remain loyal and hardworking, even if you're paying them less (and maybe even far less) than they might earn elsewhere.