ALTANA Byko-Cut Universal Short Instructions - Manual (Page 2)

Measure what you see.
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ENGLISH
How to determine the total Film
Thickness
• Align the 0-marking with the beginning of the 1 st coating layer
• Count the line markings ( see example )
• Multiply the number of line markings with the appropriate film
thickness which equals one line marking ( see tables below )
Example:
Multi-layer automotive coating system tested with cutter #3
Metric Scale
Cutter Cutting angle Range 1 line marking
1 45° 0 – 2000 µm 20 µm
2 26.5° 0 – 1000 µm 10 µm
3 5.8° 0 – 200 µm 2 µm
English Scale
Cutter Cutting angle Range 1 line marking
1 45° 0 – 80 mils 1 mils
2 26.5° 0 – 40 mils 0.5 mils
3 5.8° 0 – 8 mils 0.1 mils
Metric Scale
1 Substrate 0
2 E-Coat ~ 12 line x 2 µm = 24 µm
3 Primer ~ 20 line x 2 µm = 40 µm
4 Basecoat ~ 10 line x 2 µm = 20 µm
5 Black marker
Total Film Build ~ 84 µm
English Scale
1 Substrate 0
2 E-Coat ~ 10 line x 0.1 mils = 1 mils
3 Primer ~ 15 line x 0.1 mils = 1.5 mils
4 Basecoat ~ 8 line x 0.1 mils = 0.8 mils
5 Black marker
Total Film Build ~ 3.3 mils