Rich Johnson
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Ok so today I ventured into the unknown with my first attempt at spraying real 686 water base carc with an HVLP. First time for both the paint and gun.
Im used to semiglos OD with an old gun, but today was something different.
Needles to say, if you were my neighbor you wouold agree as they do my venture was a disaster.
First I thinned the paint appropriatly and began to spray. This painting remindied me more of spray texturing a plaster wall than painting. So I thinned the paint more. Still more like splattering. So I thinned more. it looked sort of like painting now so I began.
I laid down a tack coat and then made another pass, swept back in a minute untill area was covered and coninued on. Well, I continued painting for a while like this. There were less runs in the world series last year. I had paint dripping on the street.
So I contunied to experiement, eventually I mixed more and blended the batches, and upped the pressre to about 60 (gun says mo more than 45) but I eventually got it to look like spray painting instead of splattering.
I dont understand why carc needs to be sprayed in an HVLP if it took like 60 psi to get it to spray and not splatter.
I think I finally started to get it at the end, more air, less paint, properly thinned. Which seems to defeat the purpose of More Volume, Less Pressure.
Any tips on how I screwed up so bad?
I start resanding my entire CUCV truck on monday for round 2.
Im used to semiglos OD with an old gun, but today was something different.
Needles to say, if you were my neighbor you wouold agree as they do my venture was a disaster.
First I thinned the paint appropriatly and began to spray. This painting remindied me more of spray texturing a plaster wall than painting. So I thinned the paint more. Still more like splattering. So I thinned more. it looked sort of like painting now so I began.
I laid down a tack coat and then made another pass, swept back in a minute untill area was covered and coninued on. Well, I continued painting for a while like this. There were less runs in the world series last year. I had paint dripping on the street.
So I contunied to experiement, eventually I mixed more and blended the batches, and upped the pressre to about 60 (gun says mo more than 45) but I eventually got it to look like spray painting instead of splattering.
I dont understand why carc needs to be sprayed in an HVLP if it took like 60 psi to get it to spray and not splatter.
I think I finally started to get it at the end, more air, less paint, properly thinned. Which seems to defeat the purpose of More Volume, Less Pressure.
Any tips on how I screwed up so bad?
I start resanding my entire CUCV truck on monday for round 2.
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