BUEHRER AG, Electrical Arc Spraying Coating Service, HVOF

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Electric Arc spraying

Electric arc spraying is our speciality. Nearly all materials can be coated with the electric-arc process, e.g. aluminum, cast iron, plastics, textiles or even wood. The base material has a subordinated role. An outstanding advantage of metal spraying is the distortion-free coating with all metals available as wire.

How does Electric Arc Spraying work?

Electric-arc spraying head

Sulzer Metco Electric arc spraying (EASP) is a thermal spraying process that uses an electric arc between two consumable electrodes of the surfacing materials as the heat source. A compressed gas atomizes and propels the molten material to the workpiece. The two consumable electrode wires are fed by a wire feeder to bring them together at an angle of approximately 30 degrees and to maintain an arc between them. A compressed air jet is located behind and directly in line with the intersecting wires. The wires melt in the arc and the jet of air atomizes the melted metal and propels the fine molten particles to the workpiece. The power source for producing the arc is a direct-current constantvoltage welding machine. The wire feeder is similar to that used for gas metal arc welding except that it feeds two wires. The gun can be hand held or mounted in a holding and movement mechanism. The part or the gun is moved with respect to the other to provide a coating surface on the part.

Coating Characteristics
The layers of electric-arc process are characterized by an outstanding adhesion, yet not reached in the flame spraying. The spraying particles weld with the basic material. Excellent for applications that require heavy coating build-up or for large surfaces. Arbitrarily strong layers from 0.2mm to 20mm can be laid on. Can be sprayed at extremely high rates of speed. The sprayed coatings can hardly be differentiated by colour from the basic material. Good machinability of the oxide-poor sprayed coatings. Electric-arc sprayed coatings have approximately 3 times higher strength and smaller contraction strain than flaming sprayed coatings. Metal sprayed coatings are micro porous, which has big advantages for sliding bearings and Simmerring seats. You can adjust coating characteristics, such as coating hardness or surface texture. Independent of the basic material can all materials be coated e.g. 13% chromium steel on aluminium

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Electric-arc spraying characteristics

Layer thickness Hardening Metal Wire Tensile strength Colour Refining Cost
0.3mm 20mm up to 70 HRC 1.6mm, 2.0mm, 2.5mm 3 times higher as with flame sprayed layers almost no difference from base material Turning, grinding, polishing,... CHF/dm (depending on spraying process, layer thickness etc.)

Examples of applications
Isolation

Purpose Object Material Coating

Isolation Turbocharger inlet shovel Chrome-plated steel Ceramic(s) in the flaming spraying process

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Wear protection

Purpose Object Material Coating

Longer service lives Part from mixer Chrome-plated steel 13% CR steel/Ledurit 76 both 50% in the electric-arc spraying process coated

Wear protection

Purpose Object Material Coating

Longer service lives Bowl Chrome-plated steel AMCO bronze in the electric-arc spraying process

Transfer of energy

Purpose Object Material Coating

Pneumatic cylinder copper upcoating Pneumatic cylinder Anticorodal AMCO bronze in the electric-arc spraying process

Further workpiece examples or typical applications.

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