All your life, eh? Tom

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?

Because the color comes from aluminum which is a hell of a lot cheaper
than real silver. Note that some cars do come in silver.

Lou

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.

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.

wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:48:04 -0400, wrote:

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?

Because the color comes from aluminum which is a hell of a lot cheaper
than real silver. Note that some cars do come in silver.

Lou


Does that mean the paint contains aluminum particles? If it does, how
come it can be used on steel without causing a corrosion problem?

A. Yes (or at least did--I've not used any in a long time so I suppose
it's possible they're using something else now owing to higher Al costs)

B. Because it is already oxidized and contained in the carrier that
makes it "paint" so it's not directly in contact--and that there's not a
real high problem anyway...

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
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