08-03-2014, 05:42 PM
Hi,
I played around in the garage this morning getting everything set up for undercoating the Lorch items and waiting for the temperature to rise a bit outside. After dinner the fun started; I covered lots of items in the garage with bed sheets and in the garage entrance and onto the drive laid a large tarpaulin.
I also stripped the brand new LVLP (low volume; low pressure) gun to de-grease it taking my time to do a good job. The pot of tea is important.
Once I started spraying the troubles kicked in; the compressor wasn't building up pressure in the tank and by now I was wearing the respirator so investigated and eventually found one of the outlet quick connectors was stuck in the open position; I bet I couldn't get it to do this if I wanted it to? I always nip the gun handle in the big engineering vice when I'm loading with paint and thinners; this tends to mark the gun handle a bit but it's much better than having paint all over the place.
What a truly lousy climate I live in on the valley; I had started to spray one of the leg assemblies so now the gentle breeze turned into a gusty gale rattling the garage doors and flapping the tarpaulin around so I added more bricks to weight the tarpaulin and carried on spraying; still no good; by now the wind had got its breath and was actually blowing the over spray from the tarpaulin onto the new wet paint. In total disgust I stopped spraying and set about moving the heavy legs then folding up the tarpaulin and putting it away. Next I lay another old bed sheet on the floor and weighted this down; now at last I could resume spraying.
I had mixed the paint a bit too thickly but it was going on so I carried on spraying; the new spray gun is excellent and I'm sure with more adjusting I can reduce over-spray even more but as it is it is already a vast improvement over the other guns I own; a novice would like this gun because it doesn't put out a huge amount of paint; I found it very easy to use and as I was using cellulose primer runs were not a problem because this primer holds up well even with a good coat applied.
So far I've used two full guns of primer and still not under-coated the bed; I got fed up of the wind trying to spoil the job so have just knocked off and given the gun a good clean; I'm pleased though to have reached the stage where I'm applying paint rather than removing paint; I know which is the easier of the two to do.
Tomorrow morning I'll inspect the new paintwork and perhaps give it a light flatting then after dinner spray the bed first then apply more primer to the parts already sprayed; hopefully once this is done then I will be able to apply more primer to the bed; this will bring all the parts level regarding primer thickness allowing me to apply the top coats next session?
Strangely as I've come up into the bungalow it appears calm outside? I'm happy though to see this job progressing well.
Kind regards, Col.
I played around in the garage this morning getting everything set up for undercoating the Lorch items and waiting for the temperature to rise a bit outside. After dinner the fun started; I covered lots of items in the garage with bed sheets and in the garage entrance and onto the drive laid a large tarpaulin.
I also stripped the brand new LVLP (low volume; low pressure) gun to de-grease it taking my time to do a good job. The pot of tea is important.
Once I started spraying the troubles kicked in; the compressor wasn't building up pressure in the tank and by now I was wearing the respirator so investigated and eventually found one of the outlet quick connectors was stuck in the open position; I bet I couldn't get it to do this if I wanted it to? I always nip the gun handle in the big engineering vice when I'm loading with paint and thinners; this tends to mark the gun handle a bit but it's much better than having paint all over the place.
What a truly lousy climate I live in on the valley; I had started to spray one of the leg assemblies so now the gentle breeze turned into a gusty gale rattling the garage doors and flapping the tarpaulin around so I added more bricks to weight the tarpaulin and carried on spraying; still no good; by now the wind had got its breath and was actually blowing the over spray from the tarpaulin onto the new wet paint. In total disgust I stopped spraying and set about moving the heavy legs then folding up the tarpaulin and putting it away. Next I lay another old bed sheet on the floor and weighted this down; now at last I could resume spraying.
I had mixed the paint a bit too thickly but it was going on so I carried on spraying; the new spray gun is excellent and I'm sure with more adjusting I can reduce over-spray even more but as it is it is already a vast improvement over the other guns I own; a novice would like this gun because it doesn't put out a huge amount of paint; I found it very easy to use and as I was using cellulose primer runs were not a problem because this primer holds up well even with a good coat applied.
So far I've used two full guns of primer and still not under-coated the bed; I got fed up of the wind trying to spoil the job so have just knocked off and given the gun a good clean; I'm pleased though to have reached the stage where I'm applying paint rather than removing paint; I know which is the easier of the two to do.
Tomorrow morning I'll inspect the new paintwork and perhaps give it a light flatting then after dinner spray the bed first then apply more primer to the parts already sprayed; hopefully once this is done then I will be able to apply more primer to the bed; this will bring all the parts level regarding primer thickness allowing me to apply the top coats next session?
Strangely as I've come up into the bungalow it appears calm outside? I'm happy though to see this job progressing well.
Kind regards, Col.
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