This standard specifies the requirements for paint, painting process and quality inspection in the protection and painting of railway passenger car and tractive units. It is applicable to the painting of complete cars such as passenger car, rolling stock, service car and EMU as well as their components and parts.
2 Normative References
The following standards contained provisions which through reference in this standard, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, all editions indicated are valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the latest editions of the following standards.
TB/T 1.1~1.2-1995 Lettering and Marking of Railway Cars
TB/T 1132-1996 Color for Pipeline of Diesel and Electric Locomotive
TB/T 1737-1996 Letter and Marking of Diesel and Electric Locomotive
TB/T 2879.1-1998 Railway Rolling Stock - Paint and Painting - Part 1: Technical Specification for Supply of Paints
TB/T 2879.2-1998 Railway Rolling Stock - Paint and Painting - Part 2: Methods for Testing Paints
TB/T 2879.3-1998 Railway Rolling Stock - Paint and Painting - Part 3: Technical Specification for Surface Treatment of Metallic and Nonmetallic Materials
TB/T 2879.6-1998 Railway Rolling Stock - Paint and Painting - Part 6: Code for Quality Inspection & Acceptance of Painting
3 Paints
3.1 All paints and auxiliary materials shall meet those specified in TB/T 2879.1 and be tested with the methods specified in TB/T 2879.2. They shall not be used until confirmed as qualified.
3.2 Generally, paints and auxiliary materials from the same supplier shall be adopted for the same car or component; this requirement may be not followed upon the permission of the user, however, the paint matchability shall be guaranteed.
3.3 When heat insulation and sound insulation materials are adopted as surface paints, the matchability of all paints must be guaranteed.
TB/T 2879.5-1998 The following standards are cited：
