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COATING THICKNESS GAUGE Oxford Ins truments Coat ing M e a s u r e m e n t (OICM) intro- duces the CMI243 coating thick- ness gauge, designed specifically for difficult-to-measure metallic platings, namely zinc over steel and nickel over steel. This gauge utilizes the eddy current meas- urement principle for metallic

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OVERHEAD CONVEYOR OVEN David Weisman, L.L.C. has introduced its la tes t heavy-duty gas-fired or electrically hea ted hot-air convection multipass over- head conveyor oven sys tems designed for cus tomers to heat , dry, and/or cure liquid and pow- der coatings on small, medium, and large three-dimensional products. The sys tem fea tures quality gas-fired burners or elec-

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