Paint Technology and TestsGardner, Henry A. (Henry Alfred)
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Paint Technology and Tests
Gardner, Henry A. (Henry Alfred)
Paint
A series of new test panels to take the place of those panels which were
condemned and subsequently removed from the Atlantic City and Pittsburg
fences, were painted and exposed during June, 1909. These new test
panels are of white pine, this wood having been selected by the joint
inspection committee as offering the best condition for future tests.
The method used in painting these panels was the same as in the previous
tests, together with the adoption of certain refinements in the
reductions, application, etc. Thirty-six formulas were selected with
careful regard to the percentage of components, including several paints
containing lithopone combined with whiting and zinc oxide,[25] two
pigments which gave promise of supporting the lithopone for outside use.
Some of these lithopone paints contained special vehicles which it was
thought would prevent the destructive action which lithopone seems to
have upon linseed oil. In order to obtain a criterion of the value of
the new formulas applied, as against the wearing of straight white
leads, the original white leads used in the previous tests were
included, and other brands were added. Each formula was painted out in
white, yellow, and gray, upon panels of white pine wood arranged in
sequence upon the fence, and properly identified. The customary opacity
test, in the form of a small black square, was stencilled over the
priming coat of each panel, as in the former tests. The composition of
the vehicle in all the new tests was standard, using pure linseed oil
with a small percentage of turpentine drier. The tints used in each
formula were secured at the time of application by the use of standard
colors, lampblack, and medium chrome yellow, using an approximate amount
for each formula.
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