DuPont Price Per Gallon of Paint and Clearcoat?
When you talk car paint, you can talk about gallons of paint, or sprayable gallons. You'll be adding an activator (hardener) to the paint, as well as a reducer. Figure about $275 for a gallon of paint, with the reducer and activator, which will make 1.5 - 1.75 sprayable gallons depending on mix ratio (they vary by manufacturer). Clear should be a bit less, but around the same price.
What is the price of a gallon of good paint in philippines?
The problem is finding "good" paint. ha ha I buy paint for about P350 per liter Which would come out to about P1500 per gallon
How much does a gallon of candy paint cost?
A true candy paint job actually consists of two different colors. Typically a silver or gold is sprayed first and then a transparent candy is sprayed over top. The silver or gold shows through the candy. This two coat process gives you a more brilliant color than a single step process. You could easily spend $600 - $800 on material.
How much in average does a gallon of car paint cost?
Dodge Man you really need to stop answering these questions, the more i read of yours the more you make yourself sound like an idiot. about the only paint that costs in the $600-$1000 range is the Chameleon paint (it turned gold-purple-turquiose) that was popular back in the 90s. like JF said, depending on color, brand, type, candy, pearl, metallic, etc, etc is what determines the cost of paint. generally a regular color is around the $200-$350 range for your basic 2 stage paint.
How much primer and clear coat is needed for a truck?
As far as primer goes, buy a good 2K urethane primer. How much depends on how much damage you need to repair. The entire truck will not need to be primed. Sand the truck with 320 grit sandpaper on a DA sander or wet sand it using 400 grit wet-or-dry sandpaper, then apply a sealer to the entire truck and follow with color without sanding the sealer. If you use a high quality 2K urethane primer, you can figure that one sprayable ounce will be enough to put 3 coats on an area the size of a sheet of notebook paper. Use that to figure how big your total repair areas are and buy enough primer to cover those areas. For the clear it's hard to say without knowing what size the truck is. You will probably need close to 3 quarts, but it will be cheaper to just buy a gallon because quarts cost more. Buy a high quality clear coat that needs a hardener and a reducer. You can buy very cheap clear coats that only require a hardener to make them sprayable, but they have a very low solids content and will take twice as many coats to achieve the same mil thickness as a higher quality clear. If the dry film thickness is too thin, the clear will not hold up against UV rays for very long.
What is the paint called on cars that changes colors in different view/light?
yes it does look good, extremely expensive and it would blow your mind to try to get your car painted with this stuff, be sure to be sitting down when you find out the bill.
How many gallons/quarts will it take to paint my car?
Since you're asking this question, I wonder, do you know HOW to paint a car, or do you know someone who does???? This is not a job for a beginner or someone whose experience is limited to painting his bicycle with spray cans. It should be done by someone with lots of experience for good results.
How much do car paint jobs cost?
I've done one complete re-paint myself, and paid professionals to do another five. The cost is all over the board.The last time I did this was in 2002. I had a minty-mint, pristene 36,000 original miles '63 VW Beetle of which I was the third owner. I acquired it in a multi-car deal from a collector friend in Dallas, and he'd only had it very briefly himself. Alas, on a trip to the beach, the hood latch failed and the hood flew up, smashing the windshield, the hood, and severely creasing the cowling between the windshield and the hood opening. This couldn't be fixed without a complete repaint, so I decided to have a nearly concours quality job done; since I was going to lose the patina and the "all original" moniker, I wanted the end result to be as near to that as possible.The shop I used had previously done a multi-year 99-point concours restoration on a '63 Porsche convertible. They knew their stuff, and only do premium work. No corners cut, no sub-par materials.In the final breakdown, just the paint materials cost nearly $2000. The bodywork, repairing the cowling - which was flawless - was only $600.There was another $5000 in the rest of the job. That included partial disassembly of the car - loosen fenders, remove bumpers and exterior trim, remove windshield and rear window. Then the cycle started on getting the car "ready for color" - sand, shoot primer coat, shoot guide coat, block sand to find low spots, fill, repeat - until the car was 100% smooth and flat. Then final cleaning, anti-static to keep it from attracting dust, and shoot color. Which then had to be wet-sanded, and re-shot a second time, and wet-sanded again before final buffing.A this was a restoration-quality job, we shot with a single-stage enamel from Sikkens that was a perfect match for the original paint.There was also another $1000 or so for misc parts - replacing chrome that wasn't "good enough", new window and door seals, repair to the canvas sunroof, etc.It really looked like a brand new '63 Beetle.No clue what the "paint the car" part of the restoration on the '63 Porsche cost me, but I do recall that the paint materials alone were over $3k. It was a bare-metal restoration, fully disassembled, all prior paint removed by dipping, rust removed by reverse electrolysis, new metal welded in, etc. In the disassembly, we found one 2" by 3" patch of original paint under the dash, and used it to color-match against in a custom color run, which may have added to the cost.
Why did the U.S. decide to not to continuously clean up the oxidation on Statue of Liberty to keep the copper color showing?
The Statue of Liberty is like a banana.When the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886, it was a dull copper color. The whole statue is covered with a layer of copper metal about the thickness of two pennies. But after about 1900, the physical processes that govern the known universe began to take their toll and the copper skin oxidized into a greenish petina that can be seen on the statue to this day. When the statute underwent a massive restoration in the 1980's, the head and shoulder were realigned, the point on the crown that had been digging into her arm for a century had been shortened, the defects in the internal skeleton were thoroughly addressed, and of course the weather beaten exterior was cleaned. But there was no notion that the statue's skin should be returned to the dull copper color she was born with.This is a quote from Roman Mars' recent podcast titled "The Great Restoration": http://99percentinvisible.org/ep...As many other people have pointed out, and as Mars explains above, the statue was never intended to retain its full copper color. Petinas are considered a beautiful and intentional consequence of the exposure of man-made materiels to the natural environment. It's a concept that most consumers are not accustomed to. When we purchase things in stores, they come prepackaged, sterilized, and homogenized. Everything looks the same and everything remains the same. Sometimes things change over time. Sometimes the ephemerality of an object's appearance is part of its appeal. I'm about to take this where no one else has taken this before: the Statue of Liberty is like a banana. When you buy a banana at the grocery store, you don't want to eat it right away. First, it doesn't taste good when it's bright yellow and hard. Second, it's actually healthier after it ripens and is indicated by the change in its color to a darker spotted texture. That change in color is like the Statue of Liberty's petina. That is the desired result.