Best time to spray
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RosharonRooster
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Would you use it in poly.primer , featherfill G2 as well?
Chris_Hamilton
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No it only works with urethane products like 2K primers and clears.
Chris Martin
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I will follow advice. I won’t spray until I get a good cooler morning. Regardless of humidity and give that a try. A retired painter friend in my community, who btw used to spray and love SPI, told me not to spray if over 85. Probably good advice if not experienced. I’m also getting retarder from SPI tomorrow and will give it a try. I know I’ll get there. Very close. Thanks for all the help.
RosharonRooster
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Glad I asked!!
Chris Martin
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Don, what AC unit is this? How can an AC keep up with the airflow that needs to go through a spray booth. Just curious.
dhutton01
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It can’t. That’s why I’m not doing any body and paint this summer.
. I can do a round of epoxy etc early in the morning but nothing major. I’m doing some suspension and brake upgrades, EFI installations, rust repair etc. Stuff I can do with the shop closed up.
Don
Chris Martin
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So did a little spraying this morning before work and it was very nice. Around 75F, a little warmer inside the booth but only 2°-3°. Shot some epoxy but I don't have issues with that one. I'll set up a test this week to try to spray SS in the morning.
Mornings are certainly nice, just a bit stressful because having to be at work and I am not that fast. But I learned a lot from this thread. Basically don't shoot when too hot
Chris
Mornings are certainly nice, just a bit stressful because having to be at work and I am not that fast. But I learned a lot from this thread. Basically don't shoot when too hot
Chris
Chris Martin
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I do have a spare window unit. I never thought it would make any difference since the spray booth is sucking hot air from the outside and the AC unit would not do much. It would certainly help when the fan is off.
I do use a forced air respirator hood and thought about putting the little turbine inside a box with the AC blasting at it. At least it would keep my noggin cool
Chris
I do use a forced air respirator hood and thought about putting the little turbine inside a box with the AC blasting at it. At least it would keep my noggin cool
Chris
MJM
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I assumed your spray booth had a fan (s) sucking in fresh air on one side and blowing it thru the booth with an exhaust fan (s) at the other end. Replacing the fresh air fan (s) with a wall mounted air conditioner would serve the same purpose but, with cool air.
It's blowing air from one side of the booth and being exhausted out.
It's blowing air from one side of the booth and being exhausted out.
Chris Martin
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You are right MJM, and I do have a booth with exhaust fans, but I have may intake filters. It would still suck a lot of hot air But heck, I'll try, it may help.
Shine, good idea but here in Florida the air is so humid we don't need more of that!! I think that the wall AC unit blowing air on the turbine intake, inside a little box, would work well. If I let some of that air get into my suit it would be sweet!
But heck, I'll try, it may help. Shine, good idea but here in Florida the air is so humid we don't need more of that!! I think that the wall AC unit blowing air on the turbine intake, inside a little box, would work well. If I let some of that air get into my suit it would be sweet!
Chris Martin
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I'm learning that the hard (hot) way.
Chris Martin
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That sounds brutal Shine. Not that bad here since we are right at the coast. The ocean cools things down a little. Humidity today not too bad.
I'm here sitting in my couch waiting for the temp to drop a little more to the foretasted 83 degrees. Yes, I said I was going to spray in the mornings but I have a small part sitting in the booth and tomorrow I have to be at the office. So I got an ac unit in the booth (per advice on this thread) cooling the part down a little (it was up to 95) and I'm just too excited to give this a try. I think I finally got the correct technique down for spraying the SS smooth. I did a test panel this morning and came up amazing! I'll report if the spray later today is a success .
Chris
I'm here sitting in my couch waiting for the temp to drop a little more to the foretasted 83 degrees. Yes, I said I was going to spray in the mornings but I have a small part sitting in the booth and tomorrow I have to be at the office. So I got an ac unit in the booth (per advice on this thread) cooling the part down a little (it was up to 95) and I'm just too excited to give this a try. I think I finally got the correct technique down for spraying the SS smooth. I did a test panel this morning and came up amazing! I'll report if the spray later today is a success .
Chris
Chris Martin
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Well, I think I finally got it!!! Yesterday I sprayed one part and finally got the hang of spraying the single stage smooth enough were I am happy. And most importantly, I was able to see what the heck I was doing.
So the problem I was having was all light related! I was so eager to make a nice spray booth that I spent a little fortune on a bunch of powerful LED light fixtures. It was nice and bright, but so much so that I was getting blinded and could not see the darn paint going on the surface. So a few days ago I turned off all the lights and only kept one at each on the side I was spraying. Voila! Now I can perfectly see what the heck I am doing and sprayed a nice thin but wet coat of paint. Phew, that took a darn long time to figure out (and a quart of paint). But know I feel confident I can do this.
Temperature was a little high at 88ish so used a little retarder on the last coat. I also reverted to spraying with my Iwata Kiwami4 (Bellaria) instead of the Wider4L (LPH400). I think I find the faster spraying style of the Kiwami4 a little more to my liking but I am still intrigued by trying to get a good result from the Wider (since it cost almost twice as much and people talk so much about the LPH400 in this forum!).
Attached are a couple of pictures of the part (rudder) I painted yesterday. Top and bottom. You can see the two lights I left at the end (same at the opposite end for the other side). I sprayed with the part vertical (which previously was a challenge) but rotated the part for the picture taken taken maybe half hour after spraying the second coat).
I want to thank all of you in this forum for your patience and help answering all my questions and to Barry for the time he spent getting me to this point.
Chris
So the problem I was having was all light related! I was so eager to make a nice spray booth that I spent a little fortune on a bunch of powerful LED light fixtures. It was nice and bright, but so much so that I was getting blinded and could not see the darn paint going on the surface. So a few days ago I turned off all the lights and only kept one at each on the side I was spraying. Voila! Now I can perfectly see what the heck I am doing and sprayed a nice thin but wet coat of paint. Phew, that took a darn long time to figure out (and a quart of paint). But know I feel confident I can do this.
Temperature was a little high at 88ish so used a little retarder on the last coat. I also reverted to spraying with my Iwata Kiwami4 (Bellaria) instead of the Wider4L (LPH400). I think I find the faster spraying style of the Kiwami4 a little more to my liking but I am still intrigued by trying to get a good result from the Wider (since it cost almost twice as much and people talk so much about the LPH400 in this forum!).
Attached are a couple of pictures of the part (rudder) I painted yesterday. Top and bottom. You can see the two lights I left at the end (same at the opposite end for the other side). I sprayed with the part vertical (which previously was a challenge) but rotated the part for the picture taken taken maybe half hour after spraying the second coat).
I want to thank all of you in this forum for your patience and help answering all my questions and to Barry for the time he spent getting me to this point.
Chris
