PAINTS FOR STEEL
STRUCTURES

PAINT AND PAINTING

"Blind fear that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear."

     —Shakspere.

PAINT

"Give it to me to use!  I mix it with two in my thought."

     —Browning

Paint is pigment plus binder, plus paint-maker. Paints for steel may be divided into three general classes, namely, Oil Paints, Varnish or Resin Paints, and Tar Paints.

We are now treating of Oil Paints, that is, pigment mixed and mulled with oil, and especially designed to preserve, to protect,

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