Claims
- 1. A sandable and recoatable two-component coating composition for preventing corrosion of a metallic substrate, the composition comprisinga film-forming component comprising a polymer component (I) comprising a film-forming polymer having functional groups selected from the group consisting of active hydrogen containing groups, epoxide groups, and mixtures thereof, and a hardener component (II) comprising a crosslinking agent having functional groups selected from the group consisting of isocyanate groups and amine groups, and a corrosion protection component consisting essentially of aluminum selected from the group consisting of nonleafing aluminum pigments and which is present in an amount of from 0.011 to 0.051 weight percent, based on the total nonvolatile film-forming component of the coating composition, wherein a cured film of the coating composition applied to a metallic substrate has a pass rating after 480 hours in salt spray per ASTM B117, and is both sandable and recoatable.
- 2. The coating composition of claim 1 wherein the film-forming component comprises a film forming polymer comprising an active hydrogen group containing polymer and an isocyanate functional crosslinking agent.
- 3. The coating composition of claim 1 wherein the film-forming component comprises an epoxy functional film forming polymer and an amine functional crosslinking agent.
- 4. The coating composition of claim 1 which is a two component coating composition wherein the film-forming polymer is in a polymer component (I) and the crosslinking agent is in a hardener component (II).
- 5. The coating composition of claim 1 wherein the corrosion protection component is present in an amount of from 0.015 to 0.045 weight percent, based on the total nonvolatile film-forming component of the coating composition.
- 6. The coating composition of claim 5 wherein the corrosion protection component is present in an amount of from 0.020 to 0.040 weight percent, based on the total nonvolatile film-forming component of the coating composition.
- 7. The coating composition of claim 1 wherein the corrosion protection component is a lamellar shaped aluminum pigment.
- 8. The coating composition of claim 1 wherein the film-forming component further comprises(I) a first compound having an acid number of from 70 to 120 mg KOH/g, a hydroxyl number of from 200 to 400 mg KOH/g, a number average molecular weight of from 150 to 3000, and which is the reaction product of (a) at least one difunctional carboxylic acid, (b) at least one trifunctional polyol, (c) at least one chain stopper, and (d) phosphoric acid, and (II) a second compound comprising one or more carboxy phosphate esters having the formula: wherein M is hydrogen, metal, or ammonium, x is a number from 0 to 3, R is an C5-C40 aliphatic group having one or more —COOR1 groups, wherein R1 is H, metal, ammonium, C1-C6 alkyl, or C6-C10 aryl.
- 9. The coating composition of claim 4 wherein polymer component (I) and hardener component (II) are separated up to at least 10 hours before a first use of a mixture of said first and second components.
- 10. The coating composition of claim 9 wherein the corrosion protection component is in the polymer component (I).
- 11. A method of preventing corrosion of a metallic substrate, comprisingproviding a two-component coating composition comprising a film-forming component comprising a polymer component (I) comprising a film-forming polymer having functional groups selected from the group consisting of active hydrogen containing groups, epoxide groups, and mixtures thereof, and a hardener component (II) comprising a crosslinking agent having functional groups selected from the group consisting of isocyanate groups and amine groups, and a corrosion protection component consisting essentially of aluminum selected from the group consisting of nonleafing aluminum pigments and which is present in an amount of from 0.011 to 0.051 weight percent, based on the total nonvolatile film-forming component of the coating composition, mixing component (I) and component (II) together to from a mixed coating composition, applying the mixed coating composition to a metallic substrate, and curing the applied mixed coating composition to provide a coated metallic substrate, wherein the coated metallic substrate has a pass rating after 480 hours in salt spray per ASTM B117 and is sandable and recoatable.
- 12. A method of making a multilayer coating system, comprisingproviding a two-component primer coating composition comprising a film-forming component comprising a polymer component (I) comprising a film-forming polymer having functional groups selected from the group consisting of active hydrogen containing groups, epoxide groups, and mixtures thereof, and a hardener component (II) comprising a crosslinking agent having functional groups selected from the group consisting of isocyanate groups and amine groups, a corrosion protection component consisting essentially of aluminum selected from the group consisting of nonleafing aluminum pigments and which is present in an amount of from 0.011 to 0.051 weight percent, based on the total nonvolatile film-forming component of the coating composition, mixing component (I) and component (II) together to form a mixed primer composition, applying the mixed primer composition directly to a metal substrate to provide a coated metallic substrate, curing the coated metallic substrate to provide a primed metallic substrate which is both sandable and recoatable, applying to the primed metallic substrate one or more additional coating compositions, and curing the one or more additional coating compositions to provide a cured multilayer coating system.
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This application is a continuation in part, claiming priority upon U.S. Ser. No. 09/599,693 filed Jun. 22, 2000, and a continuation-in part of application Ser. No. 09/599,695, filed Jun. 22, 2000. The invention relates to coating compositions for use with metallic substrates and more particularly to automotive refinish coating compositions intended for use on metallic substrates, and especially to two component polyurethane primers which can be sanded and recoated and are intended for use on steel substrates.
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