{"id":3944,"date":"2023-06-19T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2023-06-27T19:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T19:03:10","slug":"lorem-ipsum-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/19\/lorem-ipsum-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Automotive Paint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Automotive Paint<\/b> is <a title=\"Paint\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paint\">paint<\/a> used on <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Automobile\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile\">automobiles<\/a> for both protective and decorative purposes.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Pfanstiehl1998_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_paint#cite_note-Pfanstiehl1998-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-TodaSalazar2012_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_paint#cite_note-TodaSalazar2012-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Water-based <a title=\"Acrylate polymer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Acrylate_polymer\">acrylic polyurethane<\/a> <a title=\"Enamel paint\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enamel_paint\">enamel paint<\/a> is currently the most widely used paint for reasons including reducing paint&#8217;s <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Environmental issue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_issue\">environmental impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Modern automobile paint is applied in several layers, with a total thickness of around 100\u00a0\u00b5m(0.1mm). Paint application requires preparation and primer steps to ensure proper application. A basecoat is applied after the primer paint is applied. Following this, a clearcoat of paint may be applied that forms a glossy and transparent coating. The clearcoat layer must be able to withstand <a title=\"Ultraviolet\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultraviolet\">UV light<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><span id=\"History\" class=\"mw-headline\">History<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In the early days of the <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Automobile industry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automobile_industry\">automobile industry<\/a>, paint was applied manually and dried for weeks at room temperature because it was a single component paint that dried by solvent evaporation. As mass production of cars made the process untenable, paint began to be dried in ovens. Nowadays, two-component (catalyzed) paint is usually applied by <a title=\"Robot\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robot\">robotic<\/a> arms and cures in just a few hours either at room temperature or in heated booths.<\/p>\n<p>Until several decades ago lead, <a title=\"Chromium\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chromium\">chromium<\/a>, and other <a title=\"Heavy metals\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heavy_metals\">heavy metals<\/a> were used in automotive paint. <a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Environmental laws\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Environmental_laws\">Environmental laws<\/a> have prohibited this, which has resulted in a move to water-based paints. Up to 85% of <a title=\"Lacquer\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lacquer\">Lacquer<\/a> paint can evaporate into the air, polluting the atmosphere. <a title=\"Enamel paint\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enamel_paint\">Enamel paint<\/a> is better for the environment and replaced lacquer paint in the late 20th century.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Pfanstiehl1998_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_paint#cite_note-Pfanstiehl1998-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Water-based acrylic polyurethane enamels are now almost universally used as the basecoat with a clearcoat.<sup id=\"cite_ref-petris_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Automotive_paint#cite_note-petris-3\">\u00a0 -Wikipedia<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Automotive Paint is paint used on automobiles for both protective and decorative purposes.[1][2] Water-based acrylic polyurethane enamel paint is currently the most widely used paint for reasons including reducing paint&#8217;s environmental impact. Modern automobile paint is applied in several layers, with a total thickness of around 100\u00a0\u00b5m(0.1mm). Paint application requires preparation and primer steps to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-automotive-spray-booth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3990,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/3990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sprayline.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}