Spray Drift

[echnidna]

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.

Oh well fix it tomorrow after it dries properly.

The moral is that overspray can drift a long way.

[jaspr]

Ouch!!

Congrats on the Wasp Blowfly win.