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Rice Lake’s industry leading exclusive five-step finishing process ensures lasting performance and a long life for your truck scale.
STEP 1: Abrasive Blast Cleaning
The first step to ensure a long life span of the scale’s surface is removing any contaminants such as mill scale, oil or other residue. Achieving this requires using a centrifugal steel shot blasting system which blasts a mixture of steel grit and steel shot simultaneously to remove contaminants.
STEP 2: Cleaning
Throughout the manufacturing process, saw lubricants and weld residue adhere to the steel of a weighbridge. If the steel is not properly cleaned, paint will flake and wear away, diminishing its appearance, exposing the scale to the elements and shortening its life span. Although paint can initially hide much of this residue on a lower quality truck scale, it will quickly appear once in the field. Rice Lake Weighing Systems uses an intense cleaning process to remove all foreign materials and residue before painting to ensure proper bonding of the paint.
STEP 3: Protective Coating
All non-visible steel surfaces are evenly sprayed with an asphalt emulsion coating to protect the steel from internal moisture due to high humidity, excessive rain or standing water under the scale. This asphalt emulsion compound is abrasion resistant, sound dampening and features a salt spray rating double that of which many competitors provide with their simple paint coating. Simply put, quality undercoating protection increases the life span and value of your investment.
STEP 4: High Solids Urethane Primer
Once the steel is properly cleaned and prepped, all visible surfaces receive a 2-to 3.5-mils thick coat of high solids urethane primer. High solids urethane primer has many beneficial features that add life to your truck scale including:
- High corrosion resistance
- Excellent adhesion to steel
- High color retention
- Rust and corrosion resistance
STEP 5: High Solids Urethane Paint Finish
A 2-to 4-mills thick high solids urethane paint finish is applied over the primer. The urethane paint provides excellent durability, mar and chemical resistance as well as a smooth, glossy finish and gives every SURVIVOR® scale its polished look and added protection against the environment.
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