Powder Coating Basics
You may have read or heard us discuss that our iron works are powder coated. Now, we’re not talking baby diapers here people! Our version of powder coating involves a process that was patented back in 1953 by Dr. Erwin Gemmer, a German scientist. The powder coating process starts out by pre-treating the part to […]
What’s In A Gauge?
So, what is in a gauge? Common sense tells us that bigger is better so when you think of 16 gauge steel versus 20 gauge steel you may think that the 20 gauge is stronger. Wrong! The gauge system of measurement dates back to the early 1900’s and refers to the number of times a […]
Wrought Iron versus Steel
Did Wrought Iron Sink the Titanic? There were more than 3 million rivets holding the steel plates together on the RMS Titanic. Modern forensic evidence seems to suggest that some of these rivets in the front of the ship were wrought iron and not steel. When the Titanic struck the iceberg that night in 1912, […]