We were fabricating contractors in Fort Worth, TX who had an order for some machinery parts to go to Australia. The order had very specific and rigid painting specifications, complete with the exact paint to use and how to apply it. We did everything exactly as specified with many quality checks along the way. We were happy with the good looking results using the Epoxy Zinc special paint. We wrapped and packed the parts very lovingly in custom made crates and sent them off to the land down under. Much to our horror we were advised that when the crates were opened the paint had literally fallen off the parts and was laying in the bottom of the crates in sheets. After weeks of investigation we found that the shot blasting operation left an invisible coating of powdered metal on the surface of the parts. We had actually painted the dust and did not get any primer on the parts at all. With no adherence to the metal the dust layer let the paint fall free from the surface of the parts.