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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by 1970-01-01 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:10PM (#36047394)
>They all use electrodeposition and most of them use robots to do most of the car spraying. They are gradually beginning to explore replacing their gas ovens with electric ones to reduce the carbon emissions at plants.

Toyota's electrodeposition and prep process can be seen here:

https://youtu.be/DLav5xRvWUo?t=269

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Re:Watching Paint Dry: The unexpectedly interesting story of... by hedgehog on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @02:17AM (#36054717)
Pretty cool. For the next step the sprayers don't work like a normal spray gun, instead of pressure they use a spinning contraption to mist the paint and static electricity as a kind of terminal guidance to get over 90% of the paint onto the object being painted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_bell_painting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvFX-Y5tyk

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