Product Description
BYK-Gardner offers a wide range of drawdown cards and charts for virtually any application and coating material. Stringent quality control during the production process assures that the charts have the most consistent color and gloss in the industry. The drawdown cards are easy to use and an inexpensive substrate to test a variety of coating properties such as opacity, spreading rate, penetration behavior, and flow and leveling properties. Drawdown charts are used to assess architectural, industrial, automotive, wood coatings, inks, and cosmetic products. The byko-chart drawdown charts will work with solvent and water based coatings and inks.
Types of drawdowm cards include:
byko-chart Opacity - to measure coating opacity
byko-chart Penopac - to measure coating appearance changes between the unsealed and sealed portion of the chart.
byko-chart Opacity-Display - has a large surface area for visual evaluation of hiding power.
byko-chart Brushout - uses a heavier, rigid stock paper for easily handling
byko-chart Plain White - primarily used to test for coating color.
byko-chart Plain Black - used for camouflage paint and special effect coatings and cosmetics.
byko-chart Uncoated - Use these uncoated drawdown cards to simulate wood or unsealed wallboard.
byko-chart Sag and Leveling - compliant with ASTM method D4400
Black Glass Panel - compliant with ASTM method D2805.
Scrub Test Panels - ideal substrate for abrasion testing of coatings.
Clear Polyester Film - ideal substrate to check for foam stabilization and pigment de-flocculation.
Spray Monitors - elf-adhering labels primarily used as a guide for spray paint applications on metal panels.
Inter-leaf Paper - used to protect the dry paint film when drawdowns are stacked for storage.
Birch Veneer Panel - Real wood laminated on paper back.
The following link provides additional information from the manufacturer's brochure. Click to open the PDF in a new window or right-click to download it:
BYK-Gardner Various Drawdown Card Film Applicators or copy the following into your browser address window: labequip.ca/stock/pictures/n1456.pdf
Made in USA.