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Re-coating UL listed Product

Re-coating UL listed Product

Re-coating UL listed Product

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Hey,
I'm with a smaller company and we resell a smoke making appliance for industry that has a UL listing. Recently a lot of our customers want part of the cover on the product to be a different color then normal. What we wanted to do was simply unscrew the cover and send it out to get sandblasted and re powder coated. The manufacture has declined making this color change and getting the product re-evaluated by UL seems a bit excessive for different color powder coat on one external part. Does anyone have any ideas on how this affects the product? Safety wise were not concerned. Is it a serious issue if we leave the UL logo on the product after we re-powder coat part of it?
Thanks!

RE: Re-coating UL listed Product

If the UL report does not identify the color of the cover as a controlled aspect of the product (assuming the manufacturer will reveal this) you have not done anything to reduce the level of compliance of the product with the standard. Having said this, should something go wrong with the product in the future the manufacturer may use the removal of the cover as a mitigating factor claiming that they did not know what else may have been done to the product.

Hope this helps,

Nick Scott
http://easycomplianceguide.blogspot.com/

RE: Re-coating UL listed Product

If I understand you correctly, this product is sold under a multiple listing. Cosmetic differences are not included in the ML paperwork. I don't see any issue other than the liability mentioned above.

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