Car Paint Thickness Gauge

Defelsko manufactures the positest dft a hand held non destructive paint meter that is ideal for measuring the thickness of automotive paint on aluminum or steel automotive panels the positest dft f ferrous is capable of measuring up to 40 mils of paint on steel panels where as the positest dft c combo is available for measuring on both steel and aluminum panels.

Car paint thickness gauge.

This tool will help you measure the thickness of your paint and. Essential facts about coating thickness gauges. So this is good to measure paint thickness of a car. 5 0 out of 5 stars 8.

For reference mils are 1 1000th of an inch and microns are 1 1000th of a millimeter so the mil is much larger of a measurement 25 4 times larger than the micron. The defelsko positest dft combo electronic paint thickness gauge measures the paint thickness on all metals including steel and aluminum. 5 0 out of 5 stars 7. The dpm 816 is highly accurate with a sensor made in russia that has a measuring range up to 137 mils a resolution up to 0 001 mils and an accuracy up to 1 0 04 mils.

Before you buy a used car or begin reconditioning a damaged finish check the paint s thickness for clues about its condition and history. Universal etg 2 electronic thickness gauge by pro motorcar. Since the thickness normally varies on a car even only an inch from one another we tend to mainly use mils instead of microns only to find any large differences in paint thickness. A coating thickness gauge measures the thickness of paints non destructively.

Paint coating thickness gauge meter car painting depth gauge for used car buyer paint mil thickness meter gauge magnetic check the car s original coating 0 1500um auto off softcase carry. Designed for body shops dealerships painters appraisers inspectors detailers and professional car buyers. Another excellent option for those looking for a paint thickness gauge for car inspections is from carsys. Like the standard paint thickness gauge it s been designed to detect ferrous and non ferrous base material automatically.

It works on ferric and non ferric metal bases. Free shipping by amazon. Carsys paint thickness gauge is a little bit more sophisticated than the one from vvv group we listed above. On the display you could actually access the information such as the number of readings average readings max and min reading and standard deviation.

The cover thickness scale is used primarily to control quality. The broad measuring scope of the layer depth measure offers advantageous. Get it as soon as sat oct 3.