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What is Cerakote’s Clear Aluminum coating — and how does it differ from Clear Coat?
Unlike powder Clear Coat or a ceramic coating this is a beautiful clear coating that retains the looks of aluminum with all the protection you want from high-quality coatings.
Cerakote Clear – Aluminum (MC-5100) has been specifically engineered for performance and protection of ALL common alloys of aluminum, including magnesium alloys.
Common applications include polished, brushed, and raw aluminum used in architectural, automotive, industrial, and consumer goods.
American Dry Stripping & Powder Coating helps people with powder coating, ceramic coating, and cerakote coating services. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts.
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Aluminum Eagle Blasted Cleaned
Common applications include polished, brushed, raw & anodized aluminum used in architectural, automotive, industrial, consumer goods and more
Formulated in a one-part, air-cure, easy-to-apply coating with excellent adhesion and UV stability, this clear coating excels in all applications.
This product is 100 percent an inorganic formulation and is therefore completely UV stable. It will not yellow or haze.
Whether your item is currently coated, new or old, we will ensure it is prepped correctly for perfect coating adherence.
Aluminum is a soft alloy so we are careful in blasting to ensure it never overheats or warps. We remove all grease and prior coatings before bringing the products into our coating shop for new coatings.
And of course, we guarantee our work.
American Dry Stripping & Powder Coating helps people with powder coating, ceramic coating, and Cerakote coating services. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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Right about now you are trying to figure out what to get your mom or the mother of your children for Mother’s Day.
Here’s some help.
What your Mom really wants for Mother’s Day is NOT:
Now hold on…
She will enjoy all of those things and love you for them. But what your mom really wants for Mother’s Day is to be able to take something OFF of her crazy long to do list.
The Mom job just never stops. Not even if you go to the spa.
So when she actually does take time off to scale walls or soak her cuticles, how can you help to be sure she will return even more relaxed?
One thing most definitely on her list is getting the outside ready for the summer. That most definitely includes a set of “well-loved” patio furniture that may or may not have made it into the shed back in November.
If you are looking for extreme bonus points, you can even take down the screens and storm windows and clean them too.
We know you love your mom (or the mother of your children)! That’s why we want to help you treat her right this year.
If you have any questions, give us a shout. (Note: we do not know your mom’s shoe size).
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When it comes to metalwork and architectural restoration, one of our most diligent and professional partners is Grand Light in Seymour, CT.
They recently brought us a number of large, ballroom chandeliers for dry abrasive blasting. The fixtures were part of a much larger Hotel Syracuse lighting restoration project that Grand Light had undertaken.
The chandeliers had 27 arms each with multiple bands (75 lights each). The diameter on these beautiful grand ladies is six feet, arm to arm.
Grand Light worked on more than just crystal-encrusted chandeliers. Ryan Stockman and his team have been consulting and working with the GCs since June 2015 to complete work on lobby, ballroom, terrace lighting fixtures. These included sconces, flush mounts and chandeliers. This was an extensive job of researching, logistics, wiring, coating, packaging, transportation and much more.
The historic Hotel Syracuse, in Syracuse, New York, was designed by hotel designer William Stone Post of George B. Post & Sons of New York City in 1921. The hotel built was built from 1922-1924. This 91-year old hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The restoration of the hotel is a part of continuing development of the historic city and a complement the Nicholas J. Pirro Convention Center. The hotel booking reservations to be open on July 4, 2016.
The newest-old member of the Marriott chain boasts 261 guest rooms, 17 suites, and all major historic spaces returned to their former grandeur.
American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with all of their sandblasting and media blasting service and powder coating service needs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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Connecticut metalwork artist and architect Sandra Vlock creates “Fireballs” custom firepits from steel vintage mooring buoys.
How do we know this? Well, we were fortunate enough to have our hands on a five in the shop this week. The detail on these fireballs is incredible.
Vlock brought the buoys to us because she wanted the final product to achieve a rusted look. Buoys tend to be coated with marine-grade paint which keeps them from rusting. The coating needed to be removed, and the surface prepped.
We took our time blasting each piece carefully, inside and out. As you can see, there were many angles, curves, nooks and crannies to contend with.
Yikes! Newly blasted metal out in the rain no less!! Now thats something you do NOT see everyday at ADS. We never put newly blasted metal out in the elements because rusting/oxidation occurs so fast. However that is exactly what our customer wanted and we aim to please.
Vlock has been creating “Fireballs” custom firepits for several years. Her work has garnered attention from The Wall Street Journal to Design New England. She and her team work out of a studio in Stony Creek, CT where they also create beautiful custom fireplace screens.
Every Fireball is made to order. The designs are rendered in the steel using plasma cutting. They come in 28-inch, 40-inch and 58-inch sizes.
We were thrilled to work with Vlock on these pieces, as we always are with regional artists who bring their work with us for blasting and surface prep.
If you have any questions about Fireballs custom firepits, you can contact Vlock through her website.
If you have any questions about how we can help you remove paint and prep a surface for rust or re-coating, let us know.
American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with all of their sandblasting and media blasting service and powder coating service needs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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Having a reliable trailer at American Dry Stripping allows us to offer rare car delivery and item pickup/dropoff services to Connecticut, New York and New England.
Some of you may have heard that we were in the market to replace our trailer. We use it to deliver everything from Aston Martins to zoological creatures*.
Well, we’ve been working with Elm City Trailer out of New Haven to get the job done and here she is.
The trailer is a Rance aluminum v-nose car hauler, measuring 8′ wide x 27′. 4″. long, x 6.6′ tall on the interior. Of course it’s fitted with a ramp rear door for easily rolling carts, vehicles, and dollies in and out.
We have three primary uses for our trailer:
American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with all of their sandblasting and media blasting service and powder coating service needs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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Art research is a thing around here!
The latest piece is this one, called “Tongues of Fire” brought to us by way of Arts Westchester.
Still doing some digging, but it seems it is the work of award-winning New Rochelle metalwork sculptor Jerome Harris Parmet, probably held in private collection.
After years of interior architectural design, Parmet took up his lifelong dream to create steel sculpture.
Parmet sculpts mostly in steel, he said in an interview, occasionally with wood or glass.
American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with all of their sandblasting and media blasting service and powder coating service needs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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During the prior year we had the privilege to partner work on one of Ms. Spivak’s beautiful horse sculptures here in our shop.
Spivak works on “Qianli Ma,” a commission she completed before her death. Photo Courtesy of WAG Magazine.
Ms. Spivak lived in Wilton, Conn., but her work lived all over the world.
Shortly before her unexpected passing last year, she completed a 8×10-foot commission called “Qianli Ma” for Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas to celebrate the Chinese Year of the Horse.
In our shop, we got the privilege of blasting a smaller, but equally impressive work. The sculpture was crafted in steel and had been displayed outdoors. The metal had oxidized considerably over time. The owners wanted to clean and prep the surface for a new, more appropriate outdoor coating.
We partnered with our good friends at Composition Materials to use the right bead blasting materials. Even though steel is strong, you can see that the metal had suffered and been weakened by the elements. Our guys worked carefully to ensure just the right pressure and angle of blast.
Spivak studied originally at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and always loved horses. She started riding when she was 6. She moved to the East Coast in her 20s and fell in the love with the beautiful Wilton area.
It was there she started sculpting with metal, studying under David Boyajian at the Sculpture Barn. She sculpted for 16 years, selling almost all of her work, pieces from tabletop size, to larger than life.
She welded the sculptures often from scrap materials she reclaimed from other artists or found in junkyards.
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Abrasive blasting is a safe and efficient method for removing old surface finishes like painting, powder coating or chroming, passivation processes such as anodizing, or plain rust or corrosion from all types of metal surfaces in preparation for a finishing application.
Abrasive blasting works on virtually any type of metal (or fiberglass) object: from patio furniture to car parts, to create a surface profile range from smooth to rough.
American Dry Stripping™ & Powder Coating helps people maintain their metal after blasting to look better than new. We are based in Milford, Connecticut with two locations to serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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The desired surface profile is achieved because of combinations of grit size, type and abrasive qualities of the media. Before abrasive blasting, metal parts must be cleaned to remove contaminants like dirt and grease that could end up in the blast media, embedded into metal surfaces, or could interfere with the final painting or finishing process.
Here at American Dry Stripping, once the surfaces of your project are blasted clean, the metal is exposed to the ambient environment.
Over time — in an uncontrolled environment — exposed metal oxidizes (aluminum and stainless to lesser degrees). This jeopardizes the integrity of the newly stripped surface.
Once the surfaces of your project are blasted clean, the metal is exposed to the ambient environment. Over time — in an uncontrolled environment — exposed metal oxidizes (aluminum and stainless to lesser degrees). This jeopardizes the integrity of the newly stripped surface.
To effectively protect the integrity of your project, measures must be taken.
The clean, rust-free metal that remains needs to be treated as soon as possible after abrasive blasting. This prevents re-rusting (which will occur rapidly if any moisture is present).
Prevention is always better than a cure, and once we remove the rust, we always recommend taking the necessary measure to avoid a recurrence. By using a protective coating on your metal parts, you can ensure that they are protected from oil or grease.
You can apply the acid solution with an old paintbrush or rag. Just douse it on liberally, and let it run into seams and crevices. When the acid dries, the metal surfaces with have a dull gray color. If you need to store the parts temporarily before painting, place them in a dry a location as possible.
If longer storage is planned, the parts should be primed with a non lacquer-based primer. A lacquer-based primer allows moisture to penetrate the the metal’s surface, causing re-rusting.
American Dry Stripping™ & Powder Coating helps people maintain their metal after blasting to look better than new. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.
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