Thread masking & protection

The sheet metal workers and sheet metal formers face the problem of weld spatters or excess of paint which adhere to the threads.

The most common solution is to mask the threads before welding or painting. They use caps or special plugs for protecting the threads.

Another well-known solution is to clean the threads by re-tapping.

These extra-operations are costly and difficult to apply. It can happen that the threads are definitively damaged.

The industrial and economic solution does exist; we used it for many years in automotive industry.

We apply on the threads, by the mean of high run rate machines, a dry film (OmniMASK®) to prevent weld spatter, electro-deposited paints, primers or coatings from adhering to the threads.

These coating parts do not need to be thread masking by plugs or caps nor to be re-tapped.