Can Regular Paint Be Used on Bronze Items?

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Bronze items can be painted for various reasons, including protection from the elements and identification within systems, such as fire pumps on ships. It is not unusual to find painted bronze equipment, as the paint can serve functional purposes. Regular paint is generally compatible with bronze, meaning there is no need for a special class of paint specifically for bronze items. The discussion highlights the practicality of painting bronze for both aesthetic and functional reasons. Overall, painting bronze is a common practice that serves multiple purposes.
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Are bronze items typically painted? Or can they be painted?

I'm used to seeing native bronze in its native color in equipment but in one context someone sent me a Photo of a shipboard fire pump that is supposed to be bronze. Is this likely to be bronze? Of course, I'm looking at other more rigorous ways to check this claim but just as a first approximation what do people think?

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Six of one, and half dozen of the other.
 
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Six of one, and half dozen of the other.

Ok, thanks. So to find a piece of equipment in bronze that has been painted over isn't unusual?
 
rollingstein said:
Are bronze items typically painted? Or can they be painted?

I'm used to seeing native bronze in its native color in equipment but in one context someone sent me a Photo of a shipboard fire pump that is supposed to be bronze. Is this likely to be bronze? Of course, I'm looking at other more rigorous ways to check this claim but just as a first approximation what do people think?

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Things are painted for various reasons. Sometimes, the paint furnishes a protective coating, to keep the material underneath from being degraded by exposure to the elements. Other times, as in the case of this fire pump, the paint and pigment serve to identify that out of the various pumps on this ship, this pump is part of the fire-fighting system, and you can determine this at a glance without having to trace the system manually or consulting a set of plans.

If you look around, you'll probably find that such items are painted in several different hues, each of which indicates to which piping system that item belongs.
 
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Understood! Thanks.

So, does "regular" paint work with bronze or are there a special class of paints for bronze?
 
rollingstein said:
Understood! Thanks.

So, does "regular" paint work with bronze or are there a special class of paints for bronze?
AFAIK, bronze and "regular" paint, whatever that means, are compatible.
 
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