'65 Paint codes

[Loren L.]

TSB #1072 dtd 11/19/64 passes on color chips and descriptions from Dupont, Ditzler and RM. On the back of the Dupont sheet under "Corvette Interior Refinish"' you find Balck and White listed under "60 GLOSS"; under "3 GLOSS", you will find White, Black, Dark Blue, Medium Blue, Dark Saddle, Medium Saddle, Silver, Dark Green, Maroon, and Red>

What's the difference between "3 GLOSS" and "60 GLOSS"?

[Dick W.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Gloss
Gloss
Gloss

[Loren L.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Well Dick, if you're correct there's a helluva lot of cars that have been marked WRONG on interior hardtop trim where the manuals call out "Full Gloss Unrubbed".

[Dick W.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Well Dick, if you're correct there's a helluva lot of cars that have been marked WRONG on interior hardtop trim where the manuals call out "Full Gloss Unrubbed".

Those numbers came off my spec sheet on PPG DX 685 Flattner

[Tracy C.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Those numbers came off my spec sheet on PPG DX 685 Flattner

Dick, I've always wondered how the numbers play in the real world. Do they represent a percentage by volumn, weight, or something completely different?

tc

[Dick W.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Dick, I've always wondered how the numbers play in the real world. Do they represent a percentage by volumn, weight, or something completely different?

tc

Gloss TC. 0=flat 100=high gloss

[Tracy C.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Roger that Dickie,

What I need to know is this...does the gloss "number" signify the ratio of paint to flattener? For example, if I want a "60" gloss level, is my mix ratio 60% paint and 40% flattener ? This wouldn't really make any sense in the lower range of "flatness". A gloss level of "10" would certainly need more paint than 10%.

tc

[Dick W.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Roger that Dickie,

What I need to know is this...does the gloss "number" signify the ratio of paint to flattener? For example, if I want a "60" gloss level, is my mix ratio 60% paint and 40% flattener ? This wouldn't really make any sense in the lower range of "flatness". A gloss level of "10" would certainly need more paint than 10%.

tc

No to the percentages. Rather than take up a page with the data sheet, google PPG DX 685 and you should see a link titles flattening agent form p-162. Click on that link and it has all the mixing formulas

[John H.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Roger that Dickie,

What I need to know is this...does the gloss "number" signify the ratio of paint to flattener? For example, if I want a "60" gloss level, is my mix ratio 60% paint and 40% flattener ? This wouldn't really make any sense in the lower range of "flatness". A gloss level of "10" would certainly need more paint than 10%.

tc

Tracy -

The gloss number is a measurement of angular reflectivity of light from the surface; don't have the test criteria - it was a laboratory analysis.

[Tracy C.]

Re: '65 Paint codes

Perfect...I'm smart enough to be dangerous now...

tc