Chris_Hamilton
Trying to be the best me, I can be
Like Crash, I was taught to do 50% overlap as well. Had the same issues, every once in a while especially at the end of a 12-14 hour day I'd get into trouble as well. If you are having issues with orange peel, it really helps. Speed up, reduce your material flow, overlap 75% and watch how much smoother it'll lay down. Crash calls it 25%, I think of it as 75% overlap, same thing though. Bonus is it is actually faster to spray a panel that way than with 50% overlap.(provided you speed up your passes) I actually almost never get a run using this technique, whereas when I did 50% I would on occasion simply because you are moving slower trying to cover more area and sometimes lose your place.