A good read for diehard painters
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I had the wife pick me this up at christmas and it was a really good book. She paid around $100 for it and I see they now offer most of it free on google books. Here’s the link if you want to check it out: http://books.google.com/books?id=b-jYDn0W4jgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=paint+chemistry&ei=Mg68SaXtDI6yMJqN-aUL#PPA6,M1
the first half is just basic chemistry, the second half is where it has some pretty interesting information relating to paint.
Wow! Thanks (again).
I should correct myself, i said most is online……that’s not true, doesn’t look like any of the good stuff from the paint section is available….oopps…anyhow if you come across it, its a pretty good read.
$75 bucks! Dang! I must have it though. I’ll get my sister to buy it for me for my B day… 🙂
I’d send you mine but I still don’t fully understand it! I’m re-reading it again now, struggling a bit with the chemistry….and to understand the second half fully you need to really understand the first half. It has some pretty interesting info on urethanes, polyuretheanes,epoxy,thermosets,thermoplastics….and then some. I found the parts dealing with adhesion and the different types of bonds & crosslinks pretty interesting. It also gets into the color/pigments. It covers all kinds of paint, but most of it was dealing with sprayable automotive/industrial stuff. I got a lot out of it.
sounds like a hustler for painters:blink:
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