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Dealing with vehicles or machines used for travel or motion, especially cars.

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abrasion resistance

Automotive; Automotive paint

Resistance to being worn away by rubbing or by friction; related more to toughness than to hardness. A necessary quality for automotive finish durability.

abrasive

Automotive; Automotive paint

Used for wearing away a surface by rubbing. Examples are sandpaper, steel wool, compound, clay, scotch-brite, etc.

storage tank

Automotive; Automotive paint

The tank on a compressor used as a reservoir to store the compressed air. The larger the tank the longer an air consuming tool (like a spray gun) can be use before the compressor ...

painter variables

Automotive; Automotive paint

Painter controlled range or reduction, air pressure, speed of travel, flash time, etc.

wet-on-wet

Automotive; Automotive paint

This is a term describing the process of applying two paint products that doesn't require sanding in between coats. Epoxy primer can be topcoated using a wet-on-wet process if ...

wet and dry paper

Automotive; Automotive paint

A slightly misleading name given to a waterproof abrasive paper which is almost always used WET. Mostly used for rubbing down paintwork as part of the preparation. More commonly ...