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I was talking to my friend who paints houses about color matching
He said he just eyeballs it and adds a little of this and that until it looks right. I told him we use a spectrophotometer and mix by weight down to the tenth of a gram. He looked at me like I had two heads and said, 'You guys really do that for cars?' It hit different because I realized how much precision we take for granted in this trade. A shade being off by a hair on a wall is no big deal, but on a quarter panel it's a complete redo. Has anyone else had a moment where you explained a normal shop process to someone outside the field and they were totally shocked?
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casey_ramirez351mo ago
Yeah that's wild. We actually mix down to the hundredth of a gram on our scale, not just the tenth. The tenth would still leave a pretty noticeable mismatch on a lot of metallics.
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carter.laura1mo ago
Wait, you guys have scales that go to the hundredth? Ours only does tenths and we still get color matches that are way off sometimes.
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