Single stage black paint is the SOFTEST of all car paints. Let me explain.
When you're working on single stage paint, you're working on two things:
1.) Resin: That's the paint.
2.) Pigment: That's what gives the paint its color.
And the pigment for black paint is carbon black. A simple form of carbon black is the soot you see on the inside of a barbecue hood.
Carbon black is an EXTREMELY soft material. And that makes the paint itself soft as well.
On the other hand, single stage WHITE paint is hardest single stage paint out there. That uses titanium dioxide powder for the pigment, and that’s a very hard substance.
Modern basecoat clearcoat systems work differently. With these you’re not polishing the pigment. The pigment is in a completely different coat underneath the clear as opposed to being mixed in with the paint. So pigment is not a hardness factor when it comes to modern paints. It’s just the hardness of the resin itself — and that varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
Like the great @jasonrose.rupes once said: “Topcoat hardness is an unknown variable.”
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Why Single Stage Black Paint Is So Soft For Country: United States. City: Bellevue, Charleston, Riverside, Sioux Falls, Wichita Falls
