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FINISHING TALK
Finishing Talk right after our up a new “Finishing Talk Live” boards after this article is pub-
discussion. I found people at fan club through FB too. With a lished so our Finishing Talk
shops that I already knew couple of clicks I was able cre- members have a chance to
about, like Pioneer Plating, ate an event and let all of my weigh in on this one.
Meminger Metal Finishing, Com- new friends and fans know
Lastly, something else extremely
plete Metal Finishing, and Dana- about the next filming date for
interesting that I discovered was
her. And then I found others our next show - Episode 8. This
a number of younger generation
that were completely new to me episode should have a pretty
metal finishing experts in train-
like Dragon Powder Coating, interesting audience. So far we
ing that we’ve all been looking
Moore Metal Finishing, Acme have fans from places like Af-
so hard for. To date I’ve made
Metal Processing, and the Hol- ghanistan, Paris, Germany, Aus-
friends with nearly a dozen kids
zapfel Group in Germany. I tralia and Mexico who have indi-
with ages ranging from 18-21
even found a couple of shops cated on our Face Book event
who are currently working in the
right in my backyard that I’d page that they will be attending
trenches and on the lines in
never heard of before like Preci- this live taping! I don’t know
various finishing shops around
sion Metal Finishing, LLC in what you’re thinking, but I’m
the world….. Who knew!?
Abbeville, SC and Hot Box Pow- thinking those are some dedi-
der Coating in Charlotte, NC. cated fans! I hope this experiment helped in
some way. Lord knows I’ve in-
You can also meet tons of peo- The collaboration is already
vested more time into this arti-
ple with the common interest of starting to work too. Just yester-
cle than anything I’ve ever writ-
metal finishing and industrial day there was a great question
ten before—including when I
manufacturing by joining the about standardizing metal fin-
was in college. If you’re not
various groups formed on Face ishing processes posted on my
careful, Face Book can become
Book. Ted Mooney (The God page that went like this.
just another time sucker like
Father of Metal Finishing) from “Question: Any insight into
YouTube, but if you do some of
Finishing.com has one called standardizing a plating process
the things that I’ve shared here,
Metal Finishing that I belong to; and training to the standard
you can get some tremendous
there is one on Electroless Plat- without losing the creative
benefits from this new social
ing, Powder Coating, and there knowledge? Example, if we
media.
is even one for… you guessed it! asked the experts in our com-
Finishing Talk! When you get a pany on how to Electroless Ni
chance, sign up for the group plate. We would most likely re-
and I’ll introduce you to the ceive very different ideas on the
hundreds of other metal finish- sequence of operation and
ing and engineering profession- chemistry used...each method
als who I’ve made friends with may end up with a good plated
over the past few months. part.” I’ll be moving this ques-
tion over the Finishing Talk
Of course I went ahead and set