Paint Specification
Paint Specification
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Paint Specification
My company like many other machines manufactures supplies our equipment with standard paint colors. Over the years we have been able to work with our vendors to provide paint color that is uniform throughout paint types and processes. However we have the occasional customer that requires a specific paint color (RAL). Whenever we change form our standard paint color to a non-standard color we run into problems with color differences.
Can anyone provide an example of a paint specification which if given to a vendor, no matter the coating process (Powder, Enamel or Polane spray) we can consistency receive paint that matches?
Since we utilize foreign sourcing we would prefer that the specification not be brand specific.
I have attached an example of our standard paint specification but as you can see it is specific to Sherwin-Williams which may not be readily available in all areas of the world.
My company like many other machines manufactures supplies our equipment with standard paint colors. Over the years we have been able to work with our vendors to provide paint color that is uniform throughout paint types and processes. However we have the occasional customer that requires a specific paint color (RAL). Whenever we change form our standard paint color to a non-standard color we run into problems with color differences.
Can anyone provide an example of a paint specification which if given to a vendor, no matter the coating process (Powder, Enamel or Polane spray) we can consistency receive paint that matches?
Since we utilize foreign sourcing we would prefer that the specification not be brand specific.
I have attached an example of our standard paint specification but as you can see it is specific to Sherwin-Williams which may not be readily available in all areas of the world.





RE: Paint Specification
For critical applications we'll sometimes supply 'paint chips' for them to match, and/or have them send us 'paint chips' for us to approve.
If someone has a more complete answer I might be interested too.
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BS391C is the British equivalent to the fed std.
One problem is that certain industries and or geographic use different specs, and there isn't necessarily a direct correlation - maybe on the fed & BS but not on the commercial ones.
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As far as I know, no one in the military goes to that level, but that's possibly due to the severe environments that the paint goes through, not even counting the mud and muck, etc.
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The colors that have meaning, such as on explosive stores, are chosen to be far enough apart from each other that even allowing for poor matching, fading etc. they are still differentiable.
So 'Saxe Blue' for flight worth practice stores which may have low explosive in them, is a long way from 'Oxford Blue' that should be totally inert, ground use only, drill rounds.
The coloromiter should get you most of the way there but I don't know how the other visual effects play into things.
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