A vehicle bond filler formulation is provided that includes a part A having curable resin and a monomer reactive diluent. A part B storage-separate, cure initiator package contains a free-radical cure initiator. At least one color changing dye adapted to change color upon mixing the part A and the part B and within ±5 minutes of cure of the curable resin to a sandable condition is present in either the part A or a separate part C, a guide coat colorant, or a combination thereof. A process of for repairing a vehicle body is also provided that includes mixing a part A containing the at least one color changing dye with the part B to form an internal guide coat mixture applied to a substrate of the vehicle body in need of repair. The mixture cures causing the color changing dye to the terminal change color within ±5 minutes of cure of the curable resin to a sandable condition.

Disclosed herein is an aqueous coating composition containing an aqueous epoxy resin dispersion, an aqueous amine-functional resin dispersion and an aromatic carboxylic acid. The aqueous dispersion contains at least one specific di- and/or polyfunctional monomeric amine and at least one resin component including at least one specific polyfunctional organic amine. Further disclosed herein is a kit-of-parts including a base varnish containing the aqueous epoxy resin dispersion and a curing component containing the aqueous amine-functional resin dispersion as well as the aromatic carboxylic acid. Additionally disclosed herein is a process for producing a coating on the substrate as well as coated substrates resulting from said process. Cured coating layers formed from said compositions exhibit a good adhesion to the substrate as well as a high intercoat adhesion and blistering stability under humidity conditions without negatively influencing the excellent sandability and the good stone chipping properties.

A sprayable thermal barrier coating powder mixture for a gas turbine engine includes: a dry composition having a low surface area ceramic powder having a median particle size distribution greater than 5 microns and less than 50 microns, and a high surface area ceramic powder having a median particle size distribution smaller than 5 microns, wherein the low surface area ceramic powder makes up at least 50% by weight of the dry composition of the sprayable thermal barrier coating powder mixture.

Methods for repairing the conventional physical barrier coating barrier on a component having a damaged portion. Applying a coating on the outer surface of the damaged portion of the component. The coating containing a reactive oxide. Initiating a reaction between the coating and the molten sulfates within the outer surface of the component. The reaction catalytically decomposes molten sulfates at the outer surface of the damaged portion of the component.

A quick, practical and economical method, machine and system for re-basecoating cans which have necks, flanges but also have basecoat and or decoration defects. The cans may pass by a corona /plasma treatment which removes lubricant. A main starwheel will carry the cans to a can body coating application device (such as a high durometer resilient roller), then to a can neck coating application device (similar but shaped for the neck/flange of the can). The main starwheel will carry the cans through an induction tunnel in which cans have an electrical current induced, thereby curing the cans before the cans are removed by an outfeed device and placed onto an outfeed conveyor. Hold down chucks hold the cans from the top (in addition to vacuum chucks holding the cans from the bottom) and cover the top of the cans so that the new coating material does not enter.

A method and alignment system for minimizing errors in the deposition of films of tailored thickness. A first position on a stage is identified for optimal placement of a downward looking microscope (DLM) and an upward looking microscope (ULM) when alignment marks on the DLM and ULM are aligned, where the DLM is attached to a bridge and the ULM is attached to the stage. A second position on the stage is identified when the ULM on the stage is aligned with the alignment marks on a metrology tool. A surface of a chucked substrate affixed to the stage is then measured. A map between a substrate coordinate system and a metrology coordinate system may then be obtained using the measured surface of the chucked substrate with the first and second positions.

A method of repairing an erosion coating coupled to a substrate, wherein the coating comprises an anodization layer on the substrate, a bond primer layer on the anodization layer, a corrosion-resistant primer on the bond primer, and an erosion coating on the corrosion-resistant primer. The method comprises abrading an erosion coating; abrading a corrosion-resistant primer; creating an abraded surface comprising a bond primer over an anodization layer coupled to the substrate, applying a sol-gel adhesion promoter layer to said abraded surface; applying a corrosion-resistant layer over the sol-gel adhesion promoter layer; and applying an erosion coating layer over the corrosion-resistant layer.

The present invention relates to a UV coating layer hardening device for hardening of a coating in a repair workshop for an automobile by means of UV radiation suitable for irradiating of a coating layer to be hardened that is applied to a surface of the automobile, including: a number of bearer elements for bearing of a number of LED based UV radiation sources, optics per radiation source for spreading of the UV radiation at a predetermined manner under an irradiation angle, the number of UV radiation sources in cooperation with the respective optics per radiation source are arranged in such a manner that a predetermined area of the surface is arrangeable with an intensity or intensity per time period with a predetermined minimum and a predetermined maximum, in which the minimum provides a predetermined degree of hardening and in which the maximum does not exceed a certain threshold.

A porous discriminating layer is formed on a ceramic support having at least one porous wall by (a) establishing a flow of a gas stream containing agglomerates of particles and (b) calcining said deposited layer to form the discriminating layer. At least a portion of the particles are of a sinter-resistant material or a sinter-resistant material precursor. The particles have a size from 0.01 to 5 microns and the agglomerates have a size of from 10 to 200 microns. This method is an inexpensive and effective route to forming a discriminating layer onto the porous wall.

To provide a repairing method, by which a coated article having high adhesion between a PVDF coating film and a repair coating film and favorable processability of the repair coating film can be obtained, and a repaired coated article.

A method for repairing a first coating film, which comprises applying a second coating material (repairing coating material) to a position to be repaired of a first coating film (PVDF coating film) formed by applying a first coating material to the surface of a substrate, to form a second coating film (repair coating film) thereby to repair the first coating film,

wherein the first coating material is a powder coating material containing PVDF (A) and a resin (B), wherein the second coating material is a coating material containing a fluororesin (L) and a titanium oxide pigment (M), and wherein the content of the titanium oxide pigment (M) is from 15 to 190 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the fluororesin (L).