BRUSHABLE CERAMIC – MRO 3003

Seal & Protect new equipment exposed to erosion & corrosion

Rebuild heat exchangers, tube sheets and other circulating water equipments

Lining tanks and chutes

Resurfacing and repairing rudders and pintel housings

Protects pump casings, impeller blades, gate valves, water boxes and fan blades

Butterfly valves

Pipes

Surface Preparation

 Proper surface preparation is essential to a successful application. The following procedures should be considered:

• All surfaces must be dry, clean and rough.
• If surface is oily or greasy, use ‘MRO 2006 NON CHLORINATED KLEANER’ to degrease the surface.
• All surfaces must be roughened, ideally by grit blasting (3-16 mesh/cm grit size) or by grinding with a coarse wheel or disc. This creates increased surface area and ”edges” to lock into, and essential for successful application.
• Metal that has been handling sea water or other salt solutions should be grit blasted and high pressure water blasted and left overnight to allow any salts in the metal to ’sweat’ to the surface. Repeat blasting may be required to ’sweat out’ all the soluble salts. A test for chloride contamination should be performed prior to any epoxy application. The maximum soluble salts left on the substrate should be no more than 40 p.p.m. (parts per million).
• Chemical cleaning with ‘MRO 2006 NON CHLORINATED KLEANER’ should follow all abrasive preparation. This will help to remove all traces of sandblasting, grit, oil, grease, dust or other foreign substances.
• Heating the repair area to 37ºC – 40ºC immediately before applying Brushable Ceramic is recommended. This procedure dries off any moisture, contamination or solvents and assists the Ceramic System in achieving maximum adhesion to the substrate.

 Mixing

 Brushable Ceramic is formulated to brush easily onto prepared surfaces with a short bristle brush. Add hardener to resin and mix thoroughly with a spatula or similar tool until a uniform, streak-free consistency is obtained, this should take about 4 minutes. Be sure to mix material from the bottom and sides of container. It is strongly recommended that full container units be mixed

Application Instructions:

For best results, product should be kept and applied at room temperature. Brushable Ceramic can be applied when temperatures are between 15ºC and 32ºC. When temperatures are below 21ºC, cure and pot life will be longer, and above room temperature cure and pot life will be shorter.