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Originally Posted by DAGAD
OK Zam, I will accept your explanation. However can you tell me why on some of the black bikes I see in sunlight, they have a brown or grey hue? I agree some of them are BLACK but I have had black painted frames, oil tanks, battery boxes and Nacelles before which are not black black.
Roy.
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There's more to the final color than the actual "color" sprayed
A brownish black can be caused by a dirty gun (color pollution), yellowish or yellowing clear, actual degredation of the pigment in the original color (fade) or poor coverage (thin) - finish will have s factor too (slick or textured etc...)
I didn't mean to imply that "black" can't look different, it can - but is usually caused by one (or more) of the reasons mentioned.
case in point - (I used to be a Grand National nut) back in the eightys, some of the Buick Grand Nationals had a brownish cast/haze to them. It ended up that there was a gold metallic pollutant in the black paint/system being used that gave the cars a brown cast in the light...almost a gold pearl look...the solution was to simply clean their paint system.
