Spray painting
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Spray painting is painting using a device that sprays the paint.
There are several different technologies for doing this.
- Canned spray paint: The most common type in the consumer market is an aerosol can of spray paint.
- Semi-professional spraypainting: there are a variety of hand-held paint sprayers that either combine the paint with air, or convert the paint to tiny droplets and accelerate these out a nozzle. Commercial examples of this include the popular product the Wagner PowerPainter(tm).
- Professional spraypainting: Automobile body shops use air compressors and specialized equipment to spray paint onto a car body. This can be expensive, with a high-quality car paint job costing from $2000 to $5000. The high cost is due to the high quality paints, the laborious nature of surface preparations, and the cost of the equipment to do this task. Anest Iwata is a popular brand of spray gun among these painters. This can be done using rotational bells (always electrostatic) or pneumatic guns (electrostatic or not)
One of the applications is graffiti. Spray-painting has also been used in Fine Art, as in the art of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
[edit] See also
- aerosol spray
- airbrush
- primer paint
- spray paint art
- topcoat paint
- specialty paints like rust-prevention paint (product example: Rust-Oleum).
- electrostatic painting
- rotational bell painting
- pneumatic painting
[edit] External links
- Spray Painting of Automobiles - Problems and Solutions
- HVLP Gun - advantages, types, and parts.
