Walking Beam
Furnace
A hot strip mill reheat furnace
where the slab is repeatedly lifted and set down at a more
forward point in the furnace; this is in contrast to a batch reheat
furnace or a pusher-type reheat furnace.
Water Based
(Aqueous)
A coating in which the film forming
ingredients are dissolved in or suspended in a volatile system
containing water as the major solvent.
Wavy Edges
A term used to describe a quality
defect in which the edge of the strip is wavy.
Weigh-Strip-Weigh
A coating weight test.
Weirbrite Clear
A dried-in-place chromate
treatment applied to Weirzin to provide a bright finish and excellent
corrosion
protection for non-painted applications.
Weirchrome (or
tin free steel)
Also Electrolytic Chromium Coated
Sheets (ECCS)
or TFS. Light-gauge, low-carbon, cold reduced steel on which chromium
and oxides of chromium have been electrodeposited; primarily used for
drawn applications, can ends and closures.
Weirite
Single reduced product.
Weirkote Plus
Weirton Steel trade name for
Galfan; See Galfan.
Weirlite
Double reduced product.
Weirzin
Electrolytic zinc coated steel.
Coating weights range from 0.025 oz./sq. ft to 0.20 oz./ sq/ ft. This
can be given a variety of post treatments to enhance corrosion
resistance and paintability.
White Rust
A coating metal oxide, such as
zinc oxide, which develops when the oxygen in the atmosphere mixes
with the coating material (such as galvanized coating). See
Sacrificial Barrier.
Wrinkling
A coating defect consisting of the
formation
of small ridges or folds in the coating which resemble the surface of
a prune, but are usually smaller in size.
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