We would like to congratulate the Collision Repair Program at Riverland Community College for their step towards a cleaner learning environment for their students. Riverland CC is located in Austin, MN and is one of the NATEF/ASE certified collision repair programs featured and recommended on Collision Blast School Search. The school was given a check to […]
Butler’s Collision Repair Program Goes Green by Switching To Waterborne Paint
The Wait Is OverIt has been a long wait, but Butler is going green. The PPG waterborne paint showed up at the school this week. A Cleaner EnvironmentThis week our PPG rep, Steve Johnson, and our jobber, Danny Hutchins stopped by with the AquaBase waterborne paint. Now we can start teaching students waterborne technology. It […]
The Importance of Mechanical Diagnostics in the Collision Repair Process
Frontal collisions often result in damage to mechanical components. Often such damage goes unidentified until the final stages of the collision repair. Finding a significant mechanical malfunction at the latter stages of the repair process can be trouble for all the parties involved including the repairer who overlooked basic diagnostic tests that may have avoided […]
Introduction to Resistance Welding
History In simplest terms, welding is a process by which two or more pieces of metal are joined together by applying heat and pressure. Back in history, blacksmiths and craftsmen would heat metals in a furnace and then weld them by hammering the red-hot metals together. By hammering the metals as they cooled, the weld […]
How To Blend Paint To An Existing Color
Blending Paint Tutorial – How To Blend Paint This is an ABRN How2 tip brought to you by Donnie Smith at BCC. After a car is involved in an accident, it is the collision repair shop’s job to repair the vehicle back to its pre-accidental condition. However, with all of the colors, metallic’s, pearls, […]