Need help with ideas on best for coating
Need help with ideas on best for coating
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Hello,
I and working to design a pilot assembly line where I am trying to coat a hollow tube.
The coating liquid used needs to be heated to about 60+ degrees centigrade.
The main issue is that the liquid will become solid at room temperatures and will create an unnecessary amount of the coat if it is not "wiped" when it is hot.
The second issue I may be able to come up with the solution but the first issue is trying to get the inner portion of the tube coated. the diameter of these tubes are about 0.5 mm and anwhere from 15 - 30 cm in length.
Has anyone experienced such a design solution?
I have many ideas such as using a roller and such.
Thanks in advance.
I and working to design a pilot assembly line where I am trying to coat a hollow tube.
The coating liquid used needs to be heated to about 60+ degrees centigrade.
The main issue is that the liquid will become solid at room temperatures and will create an unnecessary amount of the coat if it is not "wiped" when it is hot.
The second issue I may be able to come up with the solution but the first issue is trying to get the inner portion of the tube coated. the diameter of these tubes are about 0.5 mm and anwhere from 15 - 30 cm in length.
Has anyone experienced such a design solution?
I have many ideas such as using a roller and such.
Thanks in advance.
RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
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RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
viscosity is about 0.013 Pa s. The coating adheres to the tube material.
I'll look into spin coating.
Thanks for the suggestion
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RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
What thickness of coating and what size hole do you have left?
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RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
However, your liquid appears to be about 16x more viscous, so that's a potential problem, although you seem to be implying in the OP that getting it hotter might make it less viscous?
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RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
The coating itself can be superficial as the material readily bonds to the coating.
I was experimenting just having a bucket of liquid coating and just dunking the tubing all together. At the end of it, it's no more than .1 mm coating given that excess was not removed.
I imagined that keeping the solution hot keeps it less viscous and an unnecessary amount of coating on the tubing.
I'll look into the given solution and see if it is feasible in addition to some of my own ideas.
Thanks
RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
You could possibly spin the tubing on its long axis, which would force the liquid against the inner wall and possibly push out some of the excess.
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RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
RE: Need help with ideas on best for coating
Although at 0.5mm ID, capillary action may make it very difficult to coat the inside of the tube with just a gravity fed liquid.
Alternatively, swab the tube with a brush on the end of a wire pulled through the ID. 0.5mm would give you clearance for a 0.3mm or so wire which ought to clear without issue. You can control coating thickness with a silicone 'wiper' ball on the end of the wire. You may have to tune the exact size of the ball to deliver the coating thickness you want - the larger the ball, the higher the pressure against the tube wall will be and the thinner your coating layer will get. This method won't work if you need to make 10,000,000 of these a day, but could be automated at low rates. I've done a machine for a similar automated process before.
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