Dry blending tumbles flake, texture agents or flow aids together with finished powder. It is cheap and quick, but the loose components separate by size and charge, so the look drifts as the hopper empties and reclaimed powder skews the mix. Shops spraying dry blends usually run them to waste and keep gun settings, distance and film build identical across the job.
That silver's a dry blend, so spray it to waste and keep the same guy on the gun all day.
Also heard as
- dry-blended metallic
Related terms
Bonded metallic
Metallic powder in which the flake is fused onto the base particles so it sprays and recycles evenly.
Reclaim
Oversprayed powder collected from the booth and fed back into the system for reuse.
Delta E
A single number for how far a color is from its standard, read by a spectrophotometer.
Transfer efficiency
The share of sprayed powder that ends up on the part rather than in the booth.