Prop-Coat
™
is a specially designed
coating system that was originally developed for the U.S. Navy to
electrically isolate and prevent fouling to the propellers of the
submarine fleet. It is now for the first time available to the commercial,
sport fishing and yachting industry. The Prop-Coat ™
coating creates a surface that greatly inhibits marine growth and because
of its extreme hardness, it reduces the effect of erosion or cavitations that plagues all propellers. In addition, electrolysis of the
propeller is virtually eliminated.
The
ceramic coating creates a 100% electrical barrier that completely isolates
the propeller. this barrier significantly helps the life of the
sacrificial zinc anodes thereby reducing their replacement
frequency. Prop-Coat ™
is applied by a process that melts ceramic powder at temperatures above
3000° F and through an extreme high velocity particle accelerator propels
the molten particles onto the propeller surface at over 2000/ft/sec input
speed. This application produces a coating with excellent antiparticle
fusion and extremely high bond strengths with hardness
greater than Rockwell C 60.