Elliott Equipment Corporation

Whether you are finishing metal or wood, ceramics, electronics, appliances, aerospace, or anything else, Binks Spray equipment is your solution. Since introducing the first cold-water spraying machine in 1890, Binks has grown into the leading design and manufacturer of paint spraying equipment.

Elliott Equipment Corporation located in both Jasper and Indianapolis Indiana is an authorized distributor, warranty, and repair location for Binks. With over 60 years experience serving the industrial market place we can deliver innovative solutions for your finishing equipment needs. We stock the complete finishing and replacement parts line of Binks Spray guns. If you are unable to find what you need you can check our online Binks catalog or get a quick and easy quote by clicking Quick-Quote.

Still unsure of what's right for you?

Give us a call 800-823-7527

 

Cleaning low or high pressure spray guns, pressure tanks systems, paint pumps or any spray finishing equipment has always been a burden to the paint industry; until now.

Crest Powersonic (Ultrasonic) benchtop spray gun cleaner is a device that uses waves of acoustic energy (a process known as "cavitation") to loosen and break up debris on instruments.  When ultrasonic energy is introduced to a cleaning solution, the foundation of ultrasonic cleaning occurs.  Ultrasonic energy causes alternating patterns of low and high pressure phases. During the low pressure phases, bubbles or vacum cavities form.  In the subsequent phases these bubbles implode violently.  That process is called "cavitation".

Cavitation provides an extreme scrubbing action that leads to unprecedented cleaning time and consistency when compared with simple soaking part in solvent and brushing.  The bubbles caused during the cavitation are so small they can penetrate mircoscopic crevices, including those found in cured paint.  As a result, ultrasonic cleaning is one of the most highly effective and efficient methods you can use for cleaning your spray finishing equipment. 

Crest Powersonic cleaners come in a variety of sizes and include automatic timers and heaters and range in price from $1000 to $2000.  Click here to download a brochure on these units.  Also see us for an environmentally friendly (Read that GREEN)  Cleaner that make these units super efficient at removing even the most stubbornly cured paints and 2K urethanes.

  Please call or email if you have any questions or would like to purchase an ultrasonic cleaner. 800-823-7527

 

There have been some very smart new additions to Graco's air operated pump line recently. Many of Graco's pumps know offer "Data Trak" as an option; which makes them a kind of "Smart" pump.

Data Trak is an intrinsically safe pump monitoring device that is designed to protect and monitor the pump. It features:

• Easy to set Runaway Control (That actually works dependably)
• Pump diagnostics that advise when to maintain the pump
• Resettable Batch Counter that tracks material usage and maintenance schedule

Data Trak can be used to monitor paint volumes used on a particular job for process control, or to count pump cycles and schedule preventatve maintenance.

Data Trak has been introduced on a number of Graco's Pump Product Platforms such as:

• Merkur Fine Finish Pumps
• Husky 1050 air operated Diaphragm Pumps
• Warm and Hot Melt Pumps
• Hydra Clean Pumps
• Supply Pumps
• Circulation pumps
• NXT Contractor Airless Pumps

To find out how we can integrate one of Graco's Pumps with advanced Data Trak into your manufacturing process, please give us a call at 800-823-7527 or visit us at our website.

Also see us for any paint spray booth, spray gun, paint mixer, paint proportioner or powder coating equipment needs you have.
 

I'm surprised at the number of times I get a call asking whether Elliott Equipment Corporation sells Graco pumps in Indiana. The answer is an emphatic yes. Graco pumps are used in a wide variety of industrial applications such as :

Pumping Paints and Solvents for decorative product finishing

Extruding Hot Melts for product assembly

Applying viscous Sealers to automobile bodies

Spraying protective Paints and Coatings on commercial buildings

Transfering Chemicals and other Process Fluids

Emptying drums for blending diverse materials

Injecting cream into Ding Dongs (True; but just wanted to be sure you were paying attention)

If you have a requiment for a pump to transfer, spray, extrude, pump or apply a fluid or semi solid material; we have a Graco Pump that can do the job.

Specifying the correct Graco Pump for each of these applications requires a degree of expertise and know how that can only be provided by a distributor such as Elliott Equipment Corporation who has the years of experience gained from recommending and installing these pumps for companies like yours.

In addition to Graco Pumps; we can supply a wide variety of associated products such as spray booths, paint spray equipment, paint mixers and paint proportioners and powder coat equipment.

Elliott Equipment Corporation can help you make your process more efficient, safer and deliver value that adds to your bottom line . Give us a call today and see how .
 

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Elliott Equipment has been selling Spray Booths in Indiana since 1947. You may find a number of internet sites that will be more than happy to collect your money for a paint spray booth but none of these sites have salesmen who will take the time to visit your facility, make an assessment of your specific requirements and make a recommendation based on your needs.

Sure; spray booths are simple aren't they? Just a bunch of punched and flanged panels with some filters, a motor and some ductwork. To avoid being dissatisfied with your purchase; consider the following:

1. What is your part size? Do you know the recommended booth dimensions for a part of your size? An incorrectly sized paint spray booth will not give the sprayer the room to manuever his spray gun appropriately and this may lead to defects on the sprayed part.

2. Have you considered whether replacement (Makeup) air will be needed? Never even heard of such a thing? Spray booths must move at least 100 LF per minute across the operator in order to be considered code compliant. Multiply that 100 by the height and width of the boot you are considering. Turns out to be a pretty big number doesn't it? Now compare that to the cubic dimensions of the room you want to install the spray booth in. Most folks have no idea a paint spray booth will remove that volume of air.  This can have important implications on spray booth efficiency, performance and importantly: operator and plant safety. Another reason to have a professional assess your requirements and make a specific recommendation based on your needs.

3. Have you considered your Indiana Environmental permitting responsibilities? Didn't even know you had any such responsibilities? You mean there might be fines if I don't comply?

4.  I could go on an on. You mean freight is extra? No control panel included? Motor voltage isn't right for me? What do you mean stack isn't included? (And by the way- I didn't know it needed to be 6' above the roof line). Shouldn't vent towards a parking lot? Why not?

Let us point you in the right direct there as well as answer any important question you might have. This is too important a decision to your manufacturing process to leave to an anonymous website who may well not have your best interests in mind.

Give us a call at 800-823-7527. We'd be happy to make a no obligation consultation to help you out . Or send a note to david.garrison@elliottequipment.com 

(We can also help you with all your Graco and  Binks Spray Equipment needs like Electrostatic, HVLP and Air Assisted Airless Guns, Paint Proportioners, Pressure Tanks, Paint Mixers and Spray Gun Cleaners)

• Paint and Chemical transfer and circulation
• Wastewater evacuation
• Dispensing of viscous fluid materials such as caulks, silicones and semi solid foods
• Supplying paints. coatings and adhesives to a variety of conventional, HVLP, air assisted airless and electrostatic spray guns
• Supplying lubricants to machinery and vehicles
• Proportioning 2 component paints, coatings, potting compounds and insulating and structural foams

• Positive Displacement Pumps with pressure ranges from 0-7200 PSI
• Low and Medium Pressure Diaphragm Pumps
• Hot Melt and High Viscosity Ram Mounted "chop check" style pumps
• Electric Airless Pumps used by painting contractors
• Drum bung mounted pumps for barrel and tote tank evacuation
• 2 Component Proportioning Pumps
• Pneumatic, Electric, Gas and Hydraulic power sources

                   
Elliott Equipment Corporation has the product and the experience to help you with your fluid handling needs. Give us a call and let us show you. 

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                                                                                david.garrison@elliottequipment.com

• electrostatic spray guns;
• air operated pumps,
• pressure tanks
• paint mixers
• high pressure and HVLP spray guns
• paint proportioners

• Paint Mixers
• Air Operated Pumps
• Air Spray Guns
• Fluidized Powder Hoppers
• Cartridge Style Powder Coat Spray Booths
• Powder Spray Guns

• Swith standard air spray guns to HVLP Guns or better (electrostatic spray gun)
• Use only enough air to properly atomize your coating and no more
• Consider changing air motor on your paint mixers and agitators to a piston style motor. This can cut air consumption in half.
• Regularly check lines for leaks 

 

• Eliminate problems with drafts, contaminated air and tempature control


• Creates balanced building pressure and maintain proper comfort levels


• 100% Fresh Air


• Add a bake or cure cycle to your spray finishing process

 
In 1890, Joe Binks; an employee at Marshall Fields Department Store invented a sprayer to whitewash the massive basements of the store. His home made invention remained obscure until 1893 when Chicago hosted the massive 1893 Columbian Exposition;  the last and best of the 19th Century World's Fairs. With only days left until the opening, 90% of the buildings were still unpainted. It was Joe Binks' golden opportunity to demonstrate his sprayer and by opening day, all the buildings were a gleaming white.
The "White City" as the fair was known, opened on time, thanks to the Binks Sprayer. He later founded the Star Brass Works, later changed to Binks Mfg. Co., that would become one of the premier manufacturers of industrial and commercial spray paint gun equipment.
 

• True "on gun controls" allow the user to change powder flow or recipes without leaving the booth, while spraying.  The ever popular purge air is incorporated on the gun as well, allowing a blast of air to clear the gun of excess powder.


• The new Encore Pump is a step up from standard powder coating pump.  It is the most efficient pump on the market and maximizes transfer efficiency by getting more powder to the gun using less air.


• First pass coverage and gun to part distance make this gun unique.  Because of the efficient Encore pump, user can get the gun right on the part like never before. A combination of Nordson's patented "Automatic Feedback Control" and the maximum powder delivery to gun allow for this close gun to part distance.  This feature makes it a lot easier to coat the dreaded "Faraday Cage" areas.


• Last but not least, the Encore unit features a brilliant on screen LED display.  The user can control Powder Flow, Gun Air, KV or MicroAmp settings.  There are also 20 user set recipes allowing you to save settings for each part you coat.  Nordson also has 3 preset modes: Re-Coat, Metallic and Recessed Box.

In the past few years an Italian company has been marketing a process that I think has some legs. It's not a new type of spray finishing gun; rather an enhancement to the spray finishing process that can have some significant benefits in terms of paint savings, finish quality and dry times. The process is called NitrothermSpray and it is making inroads into automotive, wood and aerospace applications by delivering some pretty substantial benefits.

NitrothermSpray can be used with several different types of spray finishing equipment. Air Spray guns, HVLP Spray Guns, Electrostatic Spray guns and and Air Assisted Airless Spray guns are all easily adapted to this new technology.

The heart of the technology is the Nitrogen Generator. Your existing spray gun is attached up to the Nitrogen Outlet instead of a traditional compressed air outlet.
 

The process briefly is this: 

1. Nitrogen is extracted from the compressed air.  Nitrogen is Inert and Anhydrous which means that the finish will be much more consistent using Nitrogen. Customers are seeing dramatic reductions in dirt and moisture problems related to the use of compressed air.

2. Ionization of the Nitrogen creates a positive charge that attracts the paint to the surface that is being painted.  This results in less overspray and a higher transfer efficiency rate.

3. A Heated Hose is used for viscosity reduction and control and reduces or eliminates the need for solvents which reduces VOC's and creates a Greener Environment.  This helps to make significant improvements in dry times and time to re-coat which leads to improved productivity

 

Want to learn more or arrange a demo? http://www.n2spraysolutions.com/

or give us a call at 800-823-7527

• WIDTH: Measure the width of your largest part then add a minimum of 2.5 feet to each side to give you painter adequate room to move around the part.


• HEIGHT: The height of you spray booth should be two to three feet above the largest part you plan to paint.


• DEPTH: Working depth should be enough to fit your largest part completely in the spray booth plus at least 3ft at the rear (filters) for clearance.

• When the tests were done many years ago that deemed HVLP Spray Guns 65% transfer efficient; one must look closely at the criteria used. Virtually any type spray gun can have an artificially high transfer efficiency rate if the test criteria are favorable enough. Consider this: if one were to use as a test substrate a 4' by 8' sheet and limit the coating viscosity and flow rate enough; with no criteria for finish quality; one can achieve virtually any transfer efficiency one desires. I am afraid that was the case when these test were done. There were no universally accepted standards used that would have allowed the test results to have universal significance under actual factory conditions. In other words; had the test substrate been 1" tubular weldments; would one expect to still see 65% transfer efficiency? That is the problem with the tests and the reason the 65% transfer efficiency claim should be viewed cautiously.

• In real world practice; HVLP guns began to be used in applications where their limitations became glaringly evident. When coating viscosity's exceeded certain ranges, or when production rates were high; HVLP guns simply could not offer acceptable atomization characteristics. At that point finishers began to try to operate the guns outside the relatively narrow range of their physical limitations and the guns became nothing more than a very expensive conventional air spray gun,. It's a simple matter of physics; when we lower the atomizing air pressure (one aspect of atomizing energy)  of a spray gun enough; even if we keep the atomizing air volume high (another aspect of atomizing energy); we quickly reach a point where there simply isn't enough physical energy available to atomize the coating satisfactorily. either the finish quality or the production rate will suffer.

• Gun Atomizing Air
• Powder Flow Air
• KV or AFC Setting

             
 

• Standard CROSS DRAFT finishing spray booth.  A cross draft booth like the on pictured above is named so for the way air enters the booth. In this case, air is drawn in front open face, through the filter plenum and out the exhaust stack. One drawback of a cross draft is that the operator has to always spray towards the filters. If he/she were to stand with his back to the filters and spray, he/she would end of painting themselves as that is the direction the air is moving.


•  DOWNDRAFT spray booths are another example of spray finishing booths.  In a Down Draft booth, air is either forced in or drawn through a filter plenum on top of the booth and exhausted through a pit in the floor.  This is the most efficient spray booth on the market and allows the operator to spray facing in any direction he desires.


• A SIDE DOWNDRAFT similar to a downdraft because the air is coming from the top of the booth and moving down. The similarities end there as the air is then exhausted through a plenum running along the bottom side walls of the booth. This is more efficient than a cross draft but less than a true downdraft.

• CARTRIDGE STYLE style powder coat spray booths draw air in through an open face or filtered door and move through large cartridge style filters that are set to pulse every few minutes. These pulses help discharge built up powder to ensure free air flow.


• 3 STAGE FILTER BOOTH: This is like a standard liquid finishing spray booth except that instead of a single filter it incorporates a three stage system. These booths also do not exhaust to atmosphere, the air is thoroughly cleaned through the 3-stage filtration and recycled back into the plant.

• What is the part you are painting? Size, Geometry, Complexity?
• What is it made out of? Metal, Plastic, Wood?
• What is your finish quality criteria? "Class A" Automotive?, Industrial? Just trying to cover the imperfections?
• What is most important? Finish Quality? Speed? Transfer Efficiency and Paint saving?
• Are the parts conveyorized or  too large for a spray booth?
• Are you trying to finish on site or outdoors?
• Is the coating solvent or waterbased?
• How much is the coating per gallon.? How much do you use a day, week, month, year?
• Really still want to use an air spray gun but the environmental inspector says it has to be electrostatic?

Want to learn more?

800-823-7527

www.elliottequipment.com