How much does Paint weigh?

100 gm seems a little much for paint. A comparison of my raw
and finished FRAMES is only about 150gm. I suspect steerer
butting or length. Tom

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I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is color. One is a

metalic

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silver and weighs more (nearly 100g). Could it be that the paint is the
difference or they were welded differently or ? Thanks!

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Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

Dave

Pistof said:

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Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

non sequitur

Pistof said:

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Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

Dave

The bricks!!! Bricks are always heavier than feathers!!!

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(Bike Camano) said:

I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is color.
One is a metalic silver and weighs more (nearly 100g).
Could it be that the paint is the difference or they were
welded differently or ? Thanks!

I weighed a steel frame before and after paint, and the
difference was 60 grams.

(Bike Camano) said:

I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is color.
One is a metalic silver and weighs more (nearly 100g).
Could it be that the paint is the difference or they were
welded differently or ? Thanks!

Something other than the paint. Or an amazing amount of
primer and clearcoat on one.

I stripped a fork that had a heavy clearcoat on it and it
lost 40 grams. But that was severe.

The metallic silver is not the issue. Any paint has binders
and pigment- metal flake has, well, metal flakes instead of
pigments, but most of the rest is going to be the same. The
paint to do a fork might have 1-2 tablespoons of metal
flake at most. Which might (guess here, but...) weigh 10 -
20 grams at the most. And the pigment in the other paint
will have some weight to it. No way you get 100 grams of
metal flake to even stick to a fork unless you glue it on
by hand 🙂

On 31 May 2004 13:00:03 GMT, [email hidden] (Bike Camano) may have

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I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is color.
One is a metalic silver and weighs more (nearly 100g).
Could it be that the paint is the difference or they were
welded differently or ? Thanks!

I doubt that you could put 10g of paint on a fork without
having it get mucked up with sags, runs, etc.

Clearly, they are only "nearly identical* in *appearance*;
there must be differences in materials, material
thicknesses, or both.

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Pistof said:

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Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

non sequitur

Orange.

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On Mon, 31 May 2004 08:48:13 -0700, Jay Hill

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Pistof said:

> Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

non sequitur

Orange.

Orange paint weighs less than blue paint since the photons
it emits are more energetic.

Chorizo.

Werehatrack said:

On 31 May 2004 13:00:03 GMT, [email hidden] (Bike

Camano) may have said:

I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is
color. One is a metalic silver and weighs more (nearly
100g). Could it be that the paint is the difference or
they were welded differently or ? Thanks!

I doubt that you could put 10g of paint on a fork without
having it get mucked up with sags, runs, etc.

Actually you can put 10-20 grams on without any problems,
going slow and with a urethane clearcoat. Been there, done
that. But you are right in that it takes an effort and time
to weight down a fork.

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Clearly, they are only "nearly identical* in *appearance*;
there must be differences in materials, material
thicknesses, or both.

Yep.

On Mon, 31 May 2004 17:38:46 +0200, "trg"

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Werehatrack said:

On Mon, 31 May 2004 08:48:13 -0700, Jay Hill

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Pistof wrote:
>> Re: How much does Paint weigh?
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> What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

non sequitur

Orange.

Orange paint weighs less than blue paint since the photons
it emits are more energetic.

Only if they're Irish.

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Chorizo.

Not in a Greek salad!

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Pistof said:

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Re: How much does Paint weigh?

What weighs more: a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers?

non sequitur

Oh, sorry...

Say, what weighs more: a ton of paint or a ton of grief?

Dave

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I have two nearly identical forks. The difference is color.
One is a metalic silver and weighs more (nearly 100g).

Dunno about 100g, but apparently different color paints do
have different weights. I'm not sure whether the weight per
volume is different or it just takes a thicker coat/more
coats of some colors that others.

What I base these assumptions on is that I had a surf ski
that came in a couple pounds heavier than what I expected.
The buider's explaination was color. He said yellow was one
of the heavier colors. Can't remember what he said the lighter-
weight colors were.
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