Paint Technology and Tests

The proper drying of oils and their behavior with various siccatives in varying quantity is an interesting problem, and obviously of considerable importance from a practical sta...

=The Necessity of Protective Coatings.= Most painters have in the past considered of minor importance the painting of iron and steel; any paint that would properly hide the surf...

For the paint chemist who desires to familiarize himself with the more recent analytical methods worked out in American laboratories, reference may be had to treatises on the an...

The First Annual Inspection of the Pittsburg Test Fence took place during May, 1909, a little over one year after the painted panels had been placed in position. The inspectors...

=Constants and Characteristics of Oils and Their Effect upon Drying.= An attempt has been made to give in this chapter a brief summary of the most important characteristics of t...

For the student of paint technology, who is not already acquainted with the chemistry and physics of the various raw pigments which are largely used in the manufacture of paints...

=Decoration and Sanitation.= The proper decoration of the interior of dwellings and public buildings has become of even greater importance than the protection and decoration of...

=Laws of Paint Making.= To secure a proper comprehension of the composition of paints, and to be able to interpret the functions of their various constituents, requires an under...

=Results on Various Woods.= On the Atlantic City Fence all the tests made on yellow pine and cypress were found to be in an unsatisfactory condition for a report, for in every c...

=The Pigment Contention.= During the year 1906 officials of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station examined a number of paints on sale in the northwestern States. The...

[31] The Practical Testing of Drying and Semi-Drying Paint Oils, by Henry A. Gardner. Paper presented at Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Amer. Soc. for Test. Mater., Atlantic City, N...

An inspection of the original test fence, erected and painted by the North Dakota Agricultural College, on the grounds of the agricultural Experiment Station at Fargo, was made...

=Panel Sections for Laboratory Test.= In order to make a laboratory study of the painted panels on the Atlantic City and Pittsburg fences, it was thought advisable to remove sma...

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...

=Damp-proofing and Waterproofing.= The decoration and preservation of cement and concrete is a subject which is being given the careful consideration of many technologists on ac...

=Location and Object of Tests.= On September 15, 1910, the erection of a wooden test fence was completed on the State Fair Grounds at Nashville, Tenn. Upon this fence were expos...

=Inspection of Atlantic City Tests.= During the month of March, just one year after the placing of the painted panels on the Atlantic City fence, an inspection was made jointly...