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Bripal Synthetic resin Finishes

10th February 1933, Page 103
10th February 1933
Page 103
Page 103, 10th February 1933 — Bripal Synthetic resin Finishes
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ANEW policy for the distribution of its special cellulose lacquers, enamel paints and synthetic-resin products for refinishing purposes has been adopted by the British Paint and Lacquer Co., Ltd., Cowley, Oxon, and Brown Bros, Ltd., Great Eastern Street, London, E.C.1, together with its allied companies, Thomson and Brown Bros., Ltd., and Brown Bros. (Ireland), Ltd., has been appointed sole wholesale distributor to the motor-dealer, garage and motorcar-refinishing trades.

.Last Friday a party of about 100, managers and representatives of the 16 branches of Brown Bros., Ltd., visited the works where Bripal products are made, and were entertained to luncheon at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, afterwards being shown an excellent film depicting the production of Bripal finishes.

For cellulose lacquers, Demmer resin, which is mined in the East Indies and is a fossilized gum exuded from trees thousands of years ago, is employed to give adhesion and permit of polishing. In grinding primers and fillers, huge pebble mills are employed. Each holds 300 gallons and about 30 cwt. of Danish flint pebbles, and is rotated for 48 hrs.

For the various colour pigments flatstone, water-cooled mills are employed. Every batch of paint of a particular colour has to be matched carefully with other batches ; this is essential because bodies may be painted at one works and the bonnets finished at another. It is not possible to judge simply by the quantity of the pigment used.

The main solvent for cellulose lacquers is amyl acetate, derived from fusel oil, hut others can be used. The cellulose itself consists of. linters, which are short cotton fibres, nitrated, the process being carried pat the stage of gun cotton; the product is inflammable but not explosive.

Our interest was, naturally, chiefly centred in the Bripal commercial-body finishes, which are produced to a very high standard. Certain synthetic resins are iced, and their properties and composition can be kept very accurate.

The speed of drying is comparable to spraying lacquer. They have the high covering power of oil-base enamels, and only two coats are usually necessary, the second being applied not less than half an hour or not more than two hours after the first. tinder these conditions the second coat may be said to fuse into the first. No polishing is required and they flow out like high-class enamels. Varnish is only required to cover lettering, etc. No special licence is required and they can be applied either by brushing Q r spraying. They are supplied in a range of 23 standard colours, of which

have been specially made so that they may be intermixed to give a wide range of shades.

Amongst other products of the company, which will also be marketed by Brown Brothers, Ltd., are Bripal brushing lacquer, enamel paint, wax polish, polishing compound and paint remover.

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