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Thermal Spray — Spray & FUse
Spray and fuse consists of two steps. First, oxygen and
a fuel gas, at relatively low pressures, are combined to create the flame. The
coating material (in powder form) is fed into the flame where it
is melted, and compressed air is used to atomize the material and
transport it to the substrate.
During the second step, the material is subsequently
fused to the substrate by torch and/or vacuum furnace, which produces
a metallurgical bond. Spray and fuse process results in an
absence of interconnected pores in the coating and very high bond
strengths.
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