Re: IML: Rought Day in the Garage II

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Did you stain the paint when pouring it into the gun.  I alway do that. Keep my HVLP gun from plugging up/.  
---- Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> As an add on to my previous message, I used Jasco
> paint stripper to remove the "bad" or poorly shot
> primer from the hood of the 1972. 
> 
> I then sanded down the hood and got the rest of the
> funk off.  I asked the people that sold me the
> catalyzed primer about my misfortune and they
> suggested that I thin it and try again, since that's
> the best stuff they sell.
> 
> I did that, and poured nearly a quart of thinner into
> the primer's gallon can before it thinned out and the
> sludge on the bottom came up and went into suspension,
> leaving the primer mixture thinner than other stuff
> I've used.
> 
> Well, thinning it down made all the difference.  The
> primer went on "wet" and laid down flat very nicely.
> 
> I just got done shooting the hood in gloss black.
> 
> This was my first time with a HVLP gun, and I'd have
> to say that I was pretty disappointed.  Now, the
> problem is probably mine in that I "did something
> incorrectly", since that's a lifestyle choice I made
> long ago, but the material just didn't come out in
> enough volume to allow it to go on "wet".  
> 
> This was most frustrating, and the paint went on
> almost wet.  The poor thing ran out of juice and
> seemed to plug up and refuse to spray 2/3 of the way
> through the quart.
> 
> I took it out and poured the remaining paint into my
> older siphon gun and finished off the hood with that
> older one.  It flowed nicely and I was able to get a
> nice wet layer on top of most of the hood.  Looks like
> I'll need it since the hood is anything but smooth at
> this point.  I may knock it down and shoot another
> coat, since there's some pretty nasty orange peel.  
> 
> Well, the price was right, anyway.  
> 
> I'll let it dry and we'll see how it cuts when I block
> sand and polish a small area....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Kenyon
> 
> 
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