The Benefits of Rust Prevention Spray for Your Tools and Equipment
If you work in the high-competition world of industrial molding and molded goods production, you know how critical it is to keep every little competitive edge. You need high-quality molding products that will keep you ahead of your competition. From rust prevention to mold release, your process will be reinvented through products like ours.
What Is a Rust Prevention Spray?
When you are worried about the long-term health of your molds, you should use a rust prevention spray. These aerosols create an even layer of protectant that seals off the surface of your mold from the air. Our high-quality rust preventive sprays also include a mild acid neutralizer that counteracts the slight fingerprint acids left behind from handling and maintenance.
Rust is one of the most potent threats to your molds, particularly if you live in a more moist or hot climate. Rust can quickly and subtly develop on molds when they aren't in use, as more of their metal surface is exposed to the oxidizing effects of air and moisture.
The Benefits of Rust Prevention Spray
While the name itself gives you an idea of why you should be using a rust-prevention spray, there are multiple benefits to using this product.
Protect Against Rust
Obviously, our rust prevention sprays protect against rust, but this benefit cannot be understated. Rust is one of the most harmful issues to the molding industry's productivity, efficiency, and quality. Across all molding industries, if you use metal molds, your process could be deeply threatened by rust, leading to damaged goods and wasted material.
Longer-Lasting Molds
Even if your molds are only out of use during the weekend, that's two days a week when your molds are simply sitting and aging. If you make a rust prevention spray part of your regular cool-down cycle, you could enhance their lifetime by at least 20% or more!
Higher Quality Molded Goods
Rust, even at the early stages of development, can affect the results of your molding process. Minute ripples and pores from rusting can cause outsized damage to your products via gripping, sticking, and tearing from a more difficult demolding process.
Visual Confirmation
For a unique benefit to long-term storage, our A590 Long-Term Rust Preventive includes a tracing dye that makes the protective layer more visible. This allows you to judge the presence and state of your layer of rust prevention quickly and accurately.
How Long Do Rust Prevention Sprays Last?
There are dozens of formulations of rust prevention spray on the market, each with its duration and strength. Here at Stoner Molding Solutions, we most typically see requests and needs for four different types of protection:
Short Term – Weekends
Short-term storage is typically for only a few days at a time, such as over a weekend or a short period of break. This low-intensity rust prevention spray leaves a strong layer of protection that will easily remove itself during start-up – no more cleaning at the start of the week!
Medium-Term – Multiple Weeks
When moving factories, changing processes, or during medium-term downtime, you should use a longer-term rust preventive spray to reduce the harm from moving and not using the equipment. This is particularly useful when storing molds between production cycles.
Long Term – 1 Year+
When you are setting aside your mold for a year or more, a long-term rust prevention spray can provide an even and durable layer of sealant that will ensure you have peace of mind through even the longest of downtime. When shipping and storing your molding parts, this is the product for you!
Long-Term + Tracing Dye
With a tracing dye, the A590 rust preventive allows you to check coverage at a glance, ensuring peace of mind that your surface is protected. Have confidence that you aren't over-using or wasting your rust prevention spray on protected molds!
As an added benefit, the A612 and A677 rust prevention formulas have received NSF approval for use in food-grade molding, allowing your molding process to be in line with food and safety regulations.
Choose a Rust Prevention Spray from Stoner Molding!
Are you worried about the cost of replacing your molds? Is age and corrosion of their smooth metal surface cutting into your bottom line? Then invest in a rust prevention spray! No matter how long you are leaving your metal molds out of production, any time they don't spend in use is time you could lose twice over – once from not using them and again from the time that rust takes off of their lifespan!
Protect your most valuable and essential equipment with a rust prevention spray, whether for just a few days, weeks, or more than a year. Our products will keep you profitable and productive – get yours today!