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Glide Coating

Glide Coating is a generic name for polyamide coating. The process has been simplified for small and medium enterprises. The component is cleaned for all traces of oil and rust. If necessary, it is sand/shot blasted or given a zinc phosphate pre-treatment. It is spray coated with an adhesive primer and baked. The component is mounted on a PLC controlled dip coating system. The PLC can be programmed for speed and different time intervals. The coating equipment dips the component into the coating bath and holds it there for a preset time. It then takes out the component and again holds it for a second preset time interval. The component is again dipped for a second time to achieve proper coating thickness and subsequently cured. It is a friction minimising coating. Glide coating offers resistance to galling and is used in applications like coating of gear shifting forks and spline shafts.