. American engineer . ractice. A track is placed on the floor of the oven and connectedat each end with other tracks leading into the regular paintshop where the diflferent coats of paint are applied to thecar before each baking operation. The method of painting a car in this oven is briefly as the outside, pale green, bronze, and bronze green on the in-side, are then put on. Two coats of each color are requiredto get standard shades. Each coat of color is likewise baked. Time ScheduleOuts. FOR Pade INTINGPA5SE^ Exterior and I>GER Cars. TERIOR OF Inside Steel d Bodyk 1st prime glaze er Roof
. American engineer . ractice. A track is placed on the floor of the oven and connectedat each end with other tracks leading into the regular paintshop where the diflferent coats of paint are applied to thecar before each baking operation. The method of painting a car in this oven is briefly as the outside, pale green, bronze, and bronze green on the in-side, are then put on. Two coats of each color are requiredto get standard shades. Each coat of color is likewise baked. Time ScheduleOuts. FOR Pade INTINGPA5SE^ Exterior and I>GER Cars. TERIOR OF Inside Steel d Bodyk 1st prime glaze er Roof 1 St pii12dpn;3dprii Trucks Body abovewindow 1st prime glaze rub-ground 2d groundstipple 1st varnish2d varnish3d varnishrub Head- |)ri:ne glaze rub Body below window sins Ist prime glaze 2d surface 3d surface 1st green 2d tuscan stripe and lett1st varnish2d varnish truckcolor 2d green The car then receives the required lettering, striping, etc.,after wliicli the outside and inside surfaces get three coats ^■^fpe. E I e vo t ion ■ IkWire Wound Pipe- Section >■■ ^ ■ - ■ ■ - « -Drain i-T- -==■ Plan steam Piping in Oven for Baking Paint on Steel Passenger Cars. follows: First, a priming coat is given the exterior and in-terior of car, which is then moved into the oven and bakedfor three hours. The temperature at the start is about 160deg., but rapidly rises at about 1 deg. per minute until a tem-perature of 250 deg. is reached, requiring about IJ^ to 2hours. The oven is held at this temperature until the lapseof 3 hours, when the car is withdrawn, allowed to coolsufficiently to work on, after which the surfaces are glazedand depressions and uneven places puttied. The car thenreceives its first coat of surfacer, is returned to the oven for3 .hours, baked and removed for additional coats which varyfrom two to three in number as the needs of the case the last coat of surfacer has been applied and baked,the outside surface of the body of the car is
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