Why is silver paint called aluminum paint?
 

All your life, eh? Tom

Well, there is a color called 'silver' and a color called 'aluminum'.
They're different - in fact, there are 2 or 3 different 'aluminum'
colors that I've seen.

Because it doesn't have any silver in it. If they called it "silver"
paint, they'd get sued. (Litigation is a major sport in the USA).

Perce


On 07/28/05 12:11 am tossed the following
ingredients into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

All my life I have wondered this.
Why is silver paint called aluminum paint?
It can be painted on steel, wood, plastic, brass, and darn near
anything else (including aluminum), so why that name?

In alt.home.repair on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:29:35 -0500 "HeyBub"
posted:

wrote:
All my life I have wondered this.
Why is silver paint called aluminum paint?
It can be painted on steel, wood, plastic, brass, and darn near
anything else (including aluminum), so why that name?

Marketing purposes. In consumer acceptance tests, "Aluminum" beat out the
runner-up, "Squirrel" by, I believe, 2-3 points. "Phlegm" was a distant
third.

ROTFLOL

My last two cars have been "pewter" and "driftwood". I really want
"gold", but I keep ending up with grey.

Meirman
--
If emailing, please let me know whether
or not you are posting the same letter.
Change domain to erols.com, if necessary.