Talk:Paint/Archives/2013

Paint Sticks
My company recently researched and published an article on paint sticks, especially Markal Paintstiks. It is remarkable how this solid form of paint is so useful for commercial industrial purposes. I believe that our article would make a useful external link for the Wikipedia Paint Article. It has interesting pictures too. http://www.coxhardware.com/Products/Markal_Markers.html Please see what you think. 72.74.241.2 03:00, 1 October 2006 (UTC)Sally Seaver Shabaka, Active Lightning 30 September 2006

paint touch up
maybe include a section on paint touch-up and why it's so hard to touch-up some colors and if light plays a role in seeing the touched area, etc. Gary Smith 74.227.49.132 23:02, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikibook version
I 'borrowed' much of this article for this wikibook page:



I had to add quite a bit to make the page meet the requirements of the exam board the book intends to meet, so if there's anything there you fancy copying back into this Wikipedia article, feel free! Ewen 10:11, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Paint functions
There is another function of paint not mentioned in the article.

The function of Identification is used for example (among other uses) to specify the contents of pipework and containers in industrial environments. This is especially important where there may be many pipes in close proximity to each other. Here in Australia we use Australian Standard colours.

Some examples of this are: (I have used generic descriptions, as the colour names may vary internationally)

green - water, light blue - compressed air, silver - steam, red - fire fighting water, orange - electrical conduit, light bicuit - natural gas.

Other examples of identification are: flanges on jigs and levers on machines can be colour coded according to function, coloured lines may define walkways or no parking zones, different types of fire extinguisher are coloured differently.

220.237.38.106 09:26, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Misleading Definition
"Paint is any liquid, liquifiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film." This excludes impasto and any use of thick layers of paint. What is more it denies the fact that paint is paint before it is painted. This may be a definition, but it is POV.Peas &amp; Luv (talk) 04:54, 11 November 2008 (UTC) Anti-climb paint does not form a solid film either.Peas &amp; Luv (talk) 04:58, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Solvent base paint
The solvent base paint is very harmful, hazardous & taking very less time dry.

So, if you have any idea regarding the cleaning of the paint system, then please suggest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.229.237.43 (talk) 08:41, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Alkyd resins
Many quality paints (in the UK at least) are emulsions of Alkyd resins and pigments yet Alkyd gets just a single mention here. Can somebody with knowledge of paints provide an appropriate inclusion to rectify this please.  Velella  Velella Talk 22:25, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Paint effects
worth a mention I'd think 82.31.207.100 (talk) 07:40, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) 1 Woodgraining
 * 2) 2 Ragrolling
 * 3) 4 Marbling
 * 4) 5 Sprayed Fades
 * 5) 6 Colourwash
 * 6) 7 Fibres
 * 7) 8 Camouflage
 * 8) 9 Crackle
 * 9) 10 Dragging
 * 10) 11 Parchment
 * 11) 12 Sponging
 * 12) 13 Stencilling
 * 13) 14 Stippling
 * 14) 15 Latticing


 * Certainly worth mention. I think we should probably go for a separate article on paint effects quite quickly (even if it's a referenced stub that's barely more than a list), then articles per effect (or group) as time permits. This would give a better balance (re WP:UNDUE) for both articles.
 * The biggest problem is likely to be finding suitable images - such an article wouldn't work well until they were available. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:28, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

No paint shaker article?
As near as I can tell, this article has the only mention of paint shakers outside of pop-culture references on wikipedia. It's a machine that would be perfectly appropriate for an article - I'd sooner expect there to not be an article about hair dryers. There are a few basic kinds, like the enclosed machines that can shake multiple cans (of varying size) vertically, the open kind that move a single can back and forth horizontally or vertically, and paint spinners that hold a single can, or smaller sizes with a sizing adapter. The machines aren't necessarily limited to cans either since quart plastic bottles can fit in the adapter as well. Shaker (laboratory) has article, so why not one for paint shaker? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.254.83.243 (talk) 22:55, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

egg yolk?
"Paint was made with the yolk of eggs" - I would question this. The yolk is (a) coloured and (b) likely to rot as it is very nutritious. In my very limited experience egg white goes clear and hard and does not rot, so it would seem to be more likely. Perhaps someone could confirm this?

-- Norman Paterson

91.125.246.159 (talk) 19:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Nope, it's yolk. See Tempera. Hairhorn (talk) 21:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

color gamut
When you go into a paint store, they can computer match a color swatch. This implies that any acrylic paint can be replicated by any given manufacturer (pretty well); that is that all manufacturers share a common color gamut. It would be interesting to see just how many of the colors that we can see, can be replicated as interior or exterior paints. Could someone show the typical color gamut on color wheel?RStillwater (talk) 20:51, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
 * This isn't my field, so I'd rather not get into the matter myself, but if you go to http://commons.wikimedia.org and enter color wheel you will get over 100 hits. Some are animated and some are variously elaborated to assist in making some point or other. If you enter color gamut you will get over 30 hits. If you are already editing, then you can legally edit any of the pictures into the article where they may be useful. It is easy because if you click on "W Use this file" it will give you everything you need to copy-and-paste into the article. If you are not yet editing, then you can reply here and maybe someone will assist in inserting your selection in context. If no one else does, I might. Good luck. JonRichfield (talk) 06:10, 18 March 2013 (UTC)