Hi william
What Svein has said is Europa's position on paint, But Peter Kember has
painted
his tri gear silver and it seems to have no problem.
But a few years back an American europa painted blue on the bottom in
Arizona,
suffered a sagging engine after being heat soaked for a day,
In August this year Bob Harrison and myself had ground temperatures of 40C
in the Czech republic so Europe can still get very warm,
regards
Ivor
On 18 October 2012 07:02, Sidsel & Svein Johnsen <
sidsel.svein@oslo.online.no> wrote:
> sidsel.svein@oslo.online.no>
>
> Hi William,
>
> I would recommend against using metallic paints. I had the same thought as
> you, until I checked out the relative temperature of car surfaces (put my
> hand on the hood) at a parking lot on a sunny day:
>
> White is definitely the only "cold" colour. Silver metallic is up there
> among the other "warm" colours like green, blue and red. May sound
> strange,
> but it is caused by irregular particles in the paint reflecting radiation
> heat not only outwards (remember: angle out equals angle in).
>
> Regards,
> Svein
> LN-SKJ
>
>
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