echnidna
8th January 2007, 02:13 PM
My compressor died so waithing on the specials to pick up a cheapy.
Needed to do some spraying so I resurrected an old vactric turbine hvlp
Just sprayed the enamel finish coat on a toybox - looking good
Think I might use it for most spraying in future as it has a nice wide fan pattern that panel beaters guns don't have.
Coz it was enamel I won't leave it sit in the gun.
Had a cuppa.
Cleaned out the gun.
I always do a final rinse with lacquer thinners and leave some in the gun.
Hour later I look at the toybox good except
A bit of thinner mist from cleaning the gun has drifted about 50 feet from where I cleaned the gun through a narrow door opening and settled on one toybox lid resulting in crackle finish. :((
S'pose it coulda bin worse - I mighta had a speckled car.:oo:
Oh well fix it tomorrow after it dries properly.
The moral is that overspray can drift a long way.
Needed to do some spraying so I resurrected an old vactric turbine hvlp
Just sprayed the enamel finish coat on a toybox - looking good
Think I might use it for most spraying in future as it has a nice wide fan pattern that panel beaters guns don't have.
Coz it was enamel I won't leave it sit in the gun.
Had a cuppa.
Cleaned out the gun.
I always do a final rinse with lacquer thinners and leave some in the gun.
Hour later I look at the toybox good except
A bit of thinner mist from cleaning the gun has drifted about 50 feet from where I cleaned the gun through a narrow door opening and settled on one toybox lid resulting in crackle finish. :((
S'pose it coulda bin worse - I mighta had a speckled car.:oo:
Oh well fix it tomorrow after it dries properly.
The moral is that overspray can drift a long way.