#COLOR CANDY APPLE RED CODE#

We've had good luck in a quality, at home convection oven at 110C (225F). This visual change indicates the improved performance! We've seen the change take place in 5-10 minutes on thin walled parts but can take an hour or more. With a more crystalline structure, heat treated HTPLA parts can hold form to near melting, though temperatures where the material is practically useful vary greatly depending on geometry and load conditions!įor this improved performance, your prints should be baked in an oven until you see a change from translucent pink to opaque pink with reduced gloss. Applied properly, it’s hands down the most durable and fade resistant product on the market.Like our other HTPLAs, Glitter Flake Metallic Red PLA filament can be 'Heat Treated' to increase crystallinity for 'Higher Temperature' resistance compared to amorphous PLA, ABS, and co-polyesters like PETG! Glitter Flake HTPLA prints translucent, but turns opaque when heat treated (or crystallized).

This is the reason House of Kolor is the industry standard. How a car looks out of the booth is important, but how it looks three, five or ten years down the line is just as important.

You’re not just paying for appearance, but for durability as well Something to consider when purchasing custom paint. Remember, we need a basecoat, candy coat and a clear coat to get the desired effect. Secondly, candy isn't more expensive than other high-quality automotive paint, you just need a lot more of it. For one, candy is sprayed in layers and thus requires more coats, and with more coats comes more time. There is a reason shops charge more for a candy paint job than a standard paint job. Rest assured though, because whether you choose to go with Kandy Apple Red over Solar Gold, or over Orion Silver, or over the countless other options, the result will be a custom paint job that only authentic House of Kolor products can produce. If you've ever seen a House of Kolor Color Chart, you noticed the amount of options to choose from. Candy Apple Red Paint isn't a color, but a range of colors Background is available in various resolutions for view and.

#COLOR CANDY APPLE RED CODE#

The color of the foundation, brilliancy of the metallic, even size of the flake can have a drastic effect on the final color. Solid color background with the name Candy Apple Red and corresponding hex color code FF0800. In a Candy paint job, the ground coat, or basecoat, is vitally important to the color outcome. It's the combination of transparency and depth that makes a candy's effect unachievable in any other product.īut wait, that means. But with candies, the light passes through the topcoat all the way to the ground coat and reflects back out, carrying the reflection of the dye with it. When light shines on a painted surface, it reaches the pigment and reflects the color. Candy, on the other hand, uses dyes, which allows the resins to remain transparent. It's through this suspension that the paint gets its opacity, or body, and the ability to cover a surface. Automotive paint, even custom paint, is made of grounded pigments that suspend themselves in a resin base. Doesn't sound like much, but it is in fact this transparency that allows candies to be distinguishable from all other paints on the market. What is Kandy Paint?Ĭandy (or Kandy) is a transparent base mixed with a urethane dye. What separates this candy from all the others on the market is the durability, resistance and vibrancy only House of Kolor can offer.īut before we go any further, let's address a few questions I get a lot of. House of Kolor Kandy Apple Red has been a staple of the HOK line of products since its founding in 1956.

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