Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous coating agents, impregnating agents and adhesives in which the binder is a mixture of from 20 to 97% by weight of a cationic water-dispersible resin and from 3 to 80% by weight of a hydrocarbon resin, and/or a modified hydrocarbon resin, which per se is not water-dispersible. The coating agents, impregnating agents and adhesives may in particular be used for the cathodic electrocoating of metallic articles.

Abstract: The invention relates to surface-coating binders and to their use.The surface-coating binders, which are substantially free from epoxide groups, are based on a reaction product of (A) a Mannich base obtained from one or more polyhydric phenols which are free from ether groups and contain two or more aromatic rings, and/or one or more monohydric or polyhydric phenols which contain one or more ether groups and contain two or more aromatic rings, one or more secondary amines which contain one or two hydroxyalkyl groups and which may or may not be mixed with secondary dialkylamines or dialkoxyalkylamines, and formaldehyde or a formaldehyde donor, and (B) an epoxy resin, the reaction product of (A) and (B) additionally containing, built into its chemical structure, an olefinically unsaturated alkylphenol of the general formula (I) ##STR1## where R is a radical of 11 to 19 carbon atoms which contains from one to three carbon-carbon double bonds.