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some painting tips for Eyeball (overspray 101)
overspray:
Here's some painting tips I thought about. I do have a lot more information floating around in my head, but this is a good start and should bring up some questions that I can maybe answer, also.
Since you are doing a single stage urethane, I kind of taylored these little videos to that type of material.
overspray:
Getting the spraygun set with a good mix of properly reduced color is essential. If you get the first coats to wet or too dry it's really hard to recover a nice smooth job.
overspray:
Practise spraying a little on a test panel and see how the material flashes and wets out before you spray the body. Get the gun settings dialed in. For someone that doesn't paint a lot be careful of the speed of your passes. Too fast=dry spray. Too slow=flow checks (runs). If you over reduce the product a little it is more forgiving as far as dry spray but you should plan 1 extra coat to keep the film thickness up to maintain the durability of the finished product and it's safer for sanding out some slight imperfections.
overspray:
Here I'm promoting over reducing slightly to end up with a flatter layout of material. This is the recipie that I used on Tom's "T". With black single stage urethane this should work well.
I don't like HVLP guns a whole lot. They need to be used with about 1 grade or so slower reducer than you would with a regular gun. If you aren't used to them it can get ugly fast. I like spraying single stage urethane wet and with a little more pressure in order to break the material up into smaller droplets and get a flatter finnish especially on vertical panels.
sko_ford:
wow
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