Lindsay Doyle pulled off her safety glasses, rubbed her eyes with her middle finger and thumb, blinked twice, and put her glasses back on. Maybe what she was seeing was due to the new safety glasses she had put on that morning. Just maybe, the special anti-scratch coating was causing the pattern she saw on the surface of the metal panel. She looked again and saw the same faint appearance of a checkerboard pattern on the coating. As she squinted her eyes and moved the panel closer to her face, the pattern looked more like a honeycomb, with tiny hexagonal shapes. Unfortunately, with the new safety glasses, Lindsay now realized that she only saw the pattern when she was looking at the coating.
Lindsay set the gloss meter on the center of the panel to check her earlier readings. Every time she measured the gloss, no matter where she placed the gloss meter on the panel, the gray primer didn’t meet the customer’s required gloss specification.