Administrators Eric Posted April 18, 2020 Administrators Share Posted April 18, 2020 This is interesting: Quote Fordite, also known as Motor Agate, is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. The original layered automotive paint slag “rough” was made incidentally, years ago, by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of production cars in big automotive factories. The oversprayed paint in the painting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frames were painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layers were hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure the paint. Some of these deeper layers were even baked 100 times. Eventually, the paint build-up would become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to be removed. As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beauty realized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured, patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relative ease... Read More Here https://fordite.com 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maser Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Bet those would make people tons of money on eBay! On a side note, thank God my eyes are just tired and I read the thread title wrong and it didn't actually say Fortnite. ? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 That's really interesting. Cool looking nugget of history, and good on the guy who came up with the idea! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Fordite agate on Amazon has a lot of stuff pretty cool . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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