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Impact damage
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Cissing
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Rash rusting, rust spoting paint

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Pinhole, visible to non slip deck coating

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Pinhole
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Solvent popping
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Cratering
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Contaminated surface prior to painting

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Wrinkling or Reviling or crows foot

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Solvent attack top coat lifting

incompatible
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Mud cracking
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Solvent attack
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Flotation
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Dry spray
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Adhesion failure
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Incorrect coating system applied to hot

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Incorrect coating applied to bitumen surface

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Blistering visually intact minute blister to wood

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Blisters on balast tank coating

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Severe blistering
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Over thinning leads to bubbling – poor drying

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Rust nodules (underside paint system)

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Delamination, inter coat failure

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Rust staining to thermal metal spray

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Corrosion due to low dry film thickness

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Adhesion failure (paint applied on

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Poor opacity, incorrect paint grade,

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Checking
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Chalcking (Thermoset polymer)

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Inter coat adhesion failure due to

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Wrinkling or reviling due to incompatible

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Adhesion failure (salt contamination)

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Checking exposing under living coat

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Bitty surface ( foreign contamination on

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Adhesion failure , thermal metal spray

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Over application (orange peel / pinhole )

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Runs / sags (gross over application )

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 Missed /skips (leading to rust staining)
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 Metal contamination (metal dropping to
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 Rust staining (from primed pitted steel )
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 Blistering (cross section of blistering
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 Chalking
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 Chalking
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 Blooming ( a bloom appear on a recently
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 Pinhole in final coat
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 Acid attack
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 Corrosion under fire protection (Preak
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 Orange peel extensive
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 Over thinning – runs : stickness appear
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 Flocculation
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 Grinning through
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 Rippled coating
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 Water spotting
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 Settelement
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 Low film thicknes: uneven coating / high peaks
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