[Milsurplus] Black paint/white paint

[Peter Gottlieb]

And now the Chinese copy our stuff with impunity.

Regarding paint, I've painted polished nickel 200 alloy flat black so its 
temperature could be measured with a thermal camera.  It is virtually impossible 
to measure a reflective item with an emissivity of 0.05.  I didn't really care 
about radiation for this measurement, although obviously the black item was 
radiating much more then the polished base item in terms of the thermal measurement.



On 9/15/2011 5:25 PM, Ralph Cameron wrote:
> Paint reminds me of the U.S. Navy contract to buy Tek scopes painted
> white- Tek refused to deviate from their standard blue  so the gov't
> awarded contracts to Hiicock and Lavoie. Both contractors copied the Tek
> scopes including some spare holes that found their way into the chassis.
> Tek sued and many years later the gov't paid $7million compensation for
> patent infringement. Past history now and I am sure there3 have been
> many similar procurement blips.
>
> Ralph
> VE3BBM
>