The Auto Body Blog

Since 1992, PPG’s waterborne paint systems have been used by refinishers and OEMs across the globe. What makes these waterborne basecoats successful is their ease of use and ability to match a car’s finish regardless of whether the original paint was solventborne or not. Both Aquabase Plus and Envirobase High Performance share the same basics [...]

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Proper Booth Housekeeping Leeds To Dust Free Paint Jobs. Lately I have been a little more vigilante with my house keeping in our paint booth. Its not that I have been slacking off but recently I sweep a little more, wash the booth out at least twice a day and change the floor filters twice [...]

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The value of a spray out card While converting recently to PPG’s Envirobase HP all seems to be going very well with the product. The colors are mostly good but there is the odd color that needs to be tinted. As I have discovered, I need to do spray out cards on all colors and [...]

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Estimate refinish times will not change for waterborne paint I have been reading a lot of articles across the internet lately and I came along a great article talking about how the two major estimate programs will use the same refinish times for water borne base coat as they used for solvent base coat. Apparently [...]

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Waterborne Paint and the Future In my opening post I would like to discuss new technology that is moving in and taking over old technology. What I speak of is new waterborne technology that all body shops will need to convert to by the proposed date of January 1 2009. The move to waterborne will [...]

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