How to Mask Electronic Enclosures for Coating and Finishing
- By Lee Lechner
- Nov 5, 2025
Learn how to properly mask electronic enclosures during powder coating, painting, or plating to protect grounding points, threads, and mating surfaces.
Learn how to properly mask electronic enclosures during powder coating, painting, or plating to protect grounding points, threads, and mating surfaces.
In this post, we are going to take you through how to easily mask off bolts, studs, and tube ends during coating processes, such as powder coating and electrocoating.
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In this post, we take you through how to choose the correct plug for effectively masking off threads during metal finishing processes, such as powder coating, e-coating, plating, anodizing, etc.