Talk:Automotive paint

Important
Important article. Here's some jumping-off points from my research: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.149.10.39 (talk) 02:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Automobile paint has had lead, particularly in orange and yellow and red colours, for some time past the banning in household paint. 2005 may have been the banning date. It is a risk to hobbyists and autobody employees. Wiping an old sun-bleached car can release leaded dust.
 * Paint is often Enamel or Urethane based.
 * Metallic finishes are popular, but may be impossible to touch-up seamlessly.
 * Repainting for concours-type shows includes painting in unseen areas.
 * Paint protects the surfaces underneath, which may be prone to rust (steel) or UV damage.

"History" section needs more history.
In its current form, this article seems to say that the automobile industry jumped from brush-painting of what this article simply calls "paint", to the basecoat-clearcoat system currently in use. If you are going to discuss the paint material, then you need to include the nitrocellulose lacquers and nitrocellulose enamels that supplanted the brush-applied colored varnishes. Then you need to discuss the acrylic lacquers and acrylic enamels that supplanted the nitrocellulose coatings, and you need to say when those transitions occurred.

Similarly, you need to flesh out the history of rust-inhibiting primers and primer-surfacers for automotive use.

The discussion of tools to apply the coatings should possibly be separated from the histories of the chemicals.

A separate section could discuss the special terms used to describe defects in automotive finishes, e.g. "fish eyes". Kabocha (talk) 16:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)


 * >Also, presumably the old paint did not merely cure by solvent evaporation:
 * "In the early days of the automobile industry, paint was applied manually and dried for weeks at room temperature because it was a single component paint that dried by solvent evaporation."
 * It would have to have been an oil or alkyd based system so reaction with oxygen (autoxidation?) would have been the key or primary thing. Dynasteria (talk) 08:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)