Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,
etc. I bought a bigger tip. I have a 2qt pot that takes pressure from
my compressor then a material line out to a gun which has the hvlp air
also. It blew the BIN primer well but the Latex\Enamel Semi Gloss was
almost to heavy to spray but I got a decent spray after tweaking the
flow\air\etc.

I am getting small air bubbles in the paint. Just pin head sized but
lots of them they don't pop and end up leaving nibs once dry.

I know this setup is barely strong enough to blow latex but wondering
if anyone has any ideas. I did use some flowtrol. Not sure if that was
the issue or if I should use more or what.

I am pretty sure I had the gun and lines clear of the alcohol from
cleaning the bin and I sprayed one side of 6 cabinet doors and was
still getting bubbles although tweaking to lees paint seemed to help a
bit.

Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

SonomaProducts.com wrote:

I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,
etc. I bought a bigger tip. I have a 2qt pot that takes pressure from
my compressor then a material line out to a gun which has the hvlp air
also. It blew the BIN primer well but the Latex\Enamel Semi Gloss was
almost to heavy to spray but I got a decent spray after tweaking the
flow\air\etc.

I am getting small air bubbles in the paint. Just pin head sized but
lots of them they don't pop and end up leaving nibs once dry.

I know this setup is barely strong enough to blow latex but wondering
if anyone has any ideas. I did use some flowtrol. Not sure if that was
the issue or if I should use more or what.

I am pretty sure I had the gun and lines clear of the alcohol from
cleaning the bin and I sprayed one side of 6 cabinet doors and was
still getting bubbles although tweaking to lees paint seemed to help a
bit.
I'm no expert in the field of painting but did a kitchen cabinet painting
job for a customer, used Zinnser BIN which I love and then sprayed water
based enamel with a HVLP guy. The job came out excellent to my standards and
the customers. I found thinning the with water worked well. Also found out
the hard way when spraying cabinets, work outside in not the other way
around or you will get over spray drying on paint thats drying causing a
rough finish and lots of sanding. I'd stay away from latex if you're
planning on sanding it. Latex does not sand well. I would not use latex
except on walls, not on cabinets or doors.
--
"You can lead them to LINUX
but you can't make them THINK"

Man. 2010.1 Spring
KDE4.4
2.6.33.5-desktop-2mnb

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On 5/22/2011 9:39 PM, Rich wrote:
SonomaProducts.com wrote:

I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,
etc. I bought a bigger tip. I have a 2qt pot that takes pressure from
my compressor then a material line out to a gun which has the hvlp air
also. It blew the BIN primer well but the Latex\Enamel Semi Gloss was
almost to heavy to spray but I got a decent spray after tweaking the
flow\air\etc.

I am getting small air bubbles in the paint. Just pin head sized but
lots of them they don't pop and end up leaving nibs once dry.

I know this setup is barely strong enough to blow latex but wondering
if anyone has any ideas. I did use some flowtrol. Not sure if that was
the issue or if I should use more or what.

I am pretty sure I had the gun and lines clear of the alcohol from
cleaning the bin and I sprayed one side of 6 cabinet doors and was
still getting bubbles although tweaking to lees paint seemed to help a
bit.

....I can't get latex to spray "right" out of my hvlp, either. I
ended-up at HD and, too cheap to go for the real deal, bought a Wagner
"Paint Crew" airless for a couple of sheets. It works like a
champ...little bit of a mess, but the results are pro.

cg

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I would not use latex
except on walls, not on cabinets or doors.
--

Well, at Home Depot I bought what is labled as enamel semi-gloss as I
heard it was a little thinner than latex. The guy at HD told me even
though it says enamel it is still latex. Then at Lowes I saw their
interior semi-gloss enamel say latex elsewhere on the can. I am
confused but that is pretty normal.

I can do the cabs I am building by hand but I want to install 11 new
pre-hung 6 panel doors and I did two as a trial effort and the nad
painting (I used a brush) took way too long. I did it in saw horses,
one side at a time, two coats, forever. I was hoping spraying would be
fast and nice.

I wonder if some of this Rust Oleum oil based paint would be
appropriate? I used it to paint part of my truck and it was thin
enough to spray nicely.

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On May 23, 12:19*am, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,
etc. I bought a bigger tip. I have a 2qt pot that takes pressure from
my compressor then a material line out to a gun which has the hvlp air
also. It blew the BIN primer well but the Latex\Enamel Semi Gloss was
almost to heavy to spray but I got a decent spray after tweaking the
flow\air\etc.

I am getting small air bubbles in the paint. Just pin head sized but
lots of them they don't pop and end up leaving nibs once dry.

I know this setup is barely strong enough to blow latex but wondering
if anyone has any ideas. I did use some flowtrol. Not sure if that was
the issue or if I should use more or what.

I am pretty sure I had the gun and lines clear of the alcohol from
cleaning the bin and I sprayed one side of 6 cabinet doors and was
still getting bubbles although tweaking to lees paint seemed to help a
bit.

I have sprayed, supervised spraying and problem solved spraying issues
for decades.
Not always successful but somewhat educated I suggest that latex, when
sprayed, should have a serious whack of power behind it and that
spells: airless. Flowtrol is your friend, so is a bit of water.
Temperature and humidity are huge factors as well.
I seldom comment on spraying techniques as there are so many variables
that will/can drive you nuts.

Think about it... that stuff is rubbery (In the UK they call it
emulsion) so to atomize it requires power.
Yes it can be sprayed successfully, I have on many occasions, but you
need to stop thinking that **** as being paint. The 'aint' component
of the word sums it up.

Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

The 'aint' component
of the word sums it up.- Hide quoted text -

Nice.

I think I'll look for some oil based "solution" (pun).

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On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:19:00 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:

I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,
etc. I bought a bigger tip. I have a 2qt pot that takes pressure from
my compressor then a material line out to a gun which has the hvlp air
also. It blew the BIN primer well but the Latex\Enamel Semi Gloss was
almost to heavy to spray but I got a decent spray after tweaking the
flow\air\etc.

I had trouble with my HF HVLP conversion gun spraying sg latex enamel.
I couldn't buy a larger tip so I thinned with floetrol. It finally
shot OK after I warmed the mixture to 100F or so.


I am getting small air bubbles in the paint. Just pin head sized but
lots of them they don't pop and end up leaving nibs once dry.

How close are you spraying?


I know this setup is barely strong enough to blow latex but wondering
if anyone has any ideas. I did use some flowtrol. Not sure if that was
the issue or if I should use more or what.

I am pretty sure I had the gun and lines clear of the alcohol from
cleaning the bin and I sprayed one side of 6 cabinet doors and was
still getting bubbles although tweaking to lees paint seemed to help a
bit.

It sounds almost as if you're flowing so much liquid that the air is
foaming it before it hits the project. It would take a whole lot of
air pressure to do that, though, I'd WAG.

Have you called either Graco or Flood about it yet?

You also didn't state how you mixed the floetrol into the paint, but
bubbles in paint usually don't transfer whole through a gun. Good
atomization should take care of that.

--
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought
is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
-- Albert Guerard

Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

Hmmmm.....

Let me preface by saying this is my own practical experience, and
anyone else's may differ.

First, a three stage gun/turbine like a Graco is plenty of machine to
spray latex.

Time to woodshed the gun/material setup.

An HVLP is different from a an HVLP CAS gun, which is what most folks
have. In theory, these are the same because they both use a lot of
air at low volume. Similarites stop there. The "connected to my
compressor HVLP gun" is simply a different look at the classic high
pressure guns.

Yours (in my mind) is the real HVLP, although I do love my two CAS
HVLP guns. The biggest difference is that almost all turbine guns use
about 5psi pressure to push the paint in front of the air cap, as
opposed to letting gravity or a 100% siphon system feed the gun. With
that in mind, poor mixing technique can indeed introduce bubbles in
your spray material. Not a problems with the old high pressure guns
as they literally did atomize the paint, blowing into tiny droplets.
After careful examination of a recently sprayed surface, you will see
that turbine HVLP is more of a controlled splatter. Today's finishes
are made with the sprayer in mind, and are most forgiving I have ever
seen.

With all that in mind, here are my suggestions based on my 12 year
love affair with my 4 stage Fuji HVLP, and a brief but productive
affair with a pal's 3 stage Turbinaire.

- Toss out the Floetrol. That crap is relic of the past, and is only
used by people like me when they have an open can that has started to
cure. YOU don't need it. I haven't bought that stuff in 10 - 12
years, and no professional painters under 65 use it. Trust me,
today's paint formulations assume a professional will be spraying.
Call your coatings rep; he/she will confirm

- Make sure you are using the best quality coating you can afford.
Sherwin Williams, Ben Moore, etc., all have a top line that is great.
When using my buddy's borrowed Turbinaire three stage, I was able to
spray the top line SW semi gloss enamel with no thinning. A lot has
to do with particulate size, colorant, and the base material used in
material formulation. (For example, SW is zinc oxide based, and
Glidden is clay based)

- Try shooting without thinning. Could be a surprise there. If you
need to thin, don't overdue it. (Although I have hit SW top line
enamel 20% before with no ill effects!)

- Thin good finishes with filtered or distilled water. A gallon
costs .99, and it will do almost five gallons of paint. Cheap.

- Turn the gun air OFF. Start a test shooting batch with a 10% thin.
Open the coating feed about 3/4 of the way. Slowly open the air
pressure till you get about a half feed. Spray a test area on a piece
of primed or previously painted wood or sheetrock. This method won't
work on bare wood. You should spray out a nice, but thin coat. In
another area, open the the pressure valve a bit more, and see if you
are still getting a good coat. Wait about 20 minutes and check to see
if you have bubbles

- if you do, toss out the paint in the gun and clean it well. This
shouldn't be a big deal since you are thinning by volume; you only
need a small batch of about 4 oz each to get an accurate batch sample

- Reduce to a new mix of 15%. Repeat. While all guns and shooting
conditions aren't the same, most seem to prefer about a 10% to 15%
thin, with the pressure at about 1/2 to 3/4 open. I installed a
regulator gauge on my gun though, as I couldn't always tell where I
was with a face full or respirator. Since you are doing this
professionally, I would strongly suggest you do the same for the sake
of repeatability

- I have found that a 1.7 tip works best on my buddy's gun for latex,
thinned as above dependent on spraying conditions. On my Fuji with a
1.8mm aircap, I spray enamels unthinned unless it is really cool where
I am spraying

- Some finishes shoot betterhan others, so I would try a quart of top
line products from different manufacturers and see which ones you like
and your equipment like. I can't stress enough that unless your gun
is actually broken, you have an excellent setup that you just need to
practice and test with coatings to make sure you have it all as good
as you can get.

- Watch your technique. HVLP guns are actually set to spray patterns
similar to our old high pressure guns. If you are newer to spraying,
it is important to find your gun's sweet spot. As a general
guideline, for this kind of spraying, your aircaps will work best at
about 8" from the surface. That isn't much, but it is also one of the
reasons you have such efficient material transfer. It is also the
reason you use lower pressure; the material doesn't have far to go.
It is easy to hit the surface so hard you get bubbles. But think it
through; a thinned finished with too much pressure will almost always
yield bubbles.

An easy way to tell you have too much pressure is if you spray and
find yourself in room full of drift, or you are using the same amount
of paint as you do with an airless or high pressure setup. The
bubbles are just another indication of too much pressure. It sounds
to me like you haven't thinned enough, and your pressure is too high
to try to make up for it, slinging the paint on the surface.

Make sure you are as close to that 8" as possible when testing.
Even an inch makes a difference one way or another, and the actual
sweet spot for my Fuji is about 8 - 9".

Finally, if all else fails, check this out:

http://www.spraytechsys.com/literatu...P_training.pdf

It is one of the most comprehensive, intelligent discussions of
practical HVLP use I have ever seen. Good stuff. And while the cap/
orifice tables won't be the same for your fun (such as size 4, or size
3, etc.) since they put the actual orifice size on one of their
charts, you can call Graco and they will tell you the equivalent.

Let me know if any of this helps.

Robert

Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

Let me know if any of this helps.

Robert

Well, this gives me some hope. I thought if I could find an oil based
enamel it would be thinner but it seems I can only find it in quarts
and like rust oleum, which says for metal substrates only.

I'll try buying some better paint than the home depot stuff and see if
I can get something to work.

Interesting you say "cap" but Graco sells a needle and an insert. The
cap is reused but I assume it is the same, the orifice is in the
threaded insert. I got the biggest one they say my gun will push. The
next bigger turbine will push the biggest but maybe thinning will
help.

Yes, I was at about 8 inches. I think I will try much less material
and slow down or do more passes to let it build.

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On May 26, 6:43*pm, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:

Well, this gives me some hope. I thought if I could find an oil based
enamel it would be thinner but it seems I can only find it in quarts
and like rust oleum, which says for metal substrates only.

I'll try buying some better paint than the home depot stuff and see if
I can get something to work.

I would urge you to burn $35 - $40 and buy the best enamel you can get
your hands on (really, how much is your paint cost per project?) and
then sit down with a tablet and write down temperatures, a guess at
humidity, the amount of thinning, and the pressure you shoot at.
Before found a gauge I liked, I used to screw my pressure all the way
down to closed, and simply count the revolutions I used to open it. I
took a file and cut a groove in the knob when it was straight up so I
would have a reference. It worked well, but a gauge is better.

Interesting you say "cap" but Graco sells a needle and an insert. The
cap is reused but I assume it is the same, the orifice is in the
threaded insert. I got the biggest one they say my gun will push. The
next bigger turbine will push the biggest but maybe thinning will
help.

With most sprayers, a cap is part of the system. If you buy within
certain sizes, one cap will take care of different sized fluid
needles. So when you buy from different manufacturers, they think
differently; some say a fluid needle/opening will effectively use the
same sized air cap, which will blow out the same pattern from the same
holes. You adjust your finish from there.

Others think that using a 1mm needle size (the one I use for dyes)
requires a different air cap than the one you would use for latex,
typically a 1.7 to 1.6 mm fluid size. Different air caps not only
handle different amounts of air, but they also shoot different
patterns of air into the fluid stream. Since I have a Fuji, I tend to
call them air caps as they only sell a few needle sizes and they all
come with different caps.

Yes, I was at about 8 inches. I think I will try much less material
and slow down or do more passes to let it build.

I actually had to resort to a spacer stick to make sure I was spraying
at the correct distance. I would spray for a bit, then the gun would
move back to about 10" or so, which was great for my high pressure
stuff. Or even to 12". I tend to adjust the distance of the gun
based on the amount and look of the coating on the surface, which is
not the way to shoot HVLP.

I hope you post a follow up.

Robert

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In article b5547fbb-538c-4741-ba8b-376abf2abcd8@
34g2000pru.googlegroups.com, says...

The 'aint' component
of the word sums it up.- Hide quoted text -

Nice.

I think I'll look for some oil based "solution" (pun).

Not necessarily the only option. See if you can find an M.L. Campbell
dealer near you. They have several lacquers (their precatalyzed
lacquers are excellent) and if you're in a VOC-restricted locality some
good waterborne polyurethanes as well. And a Campbell dealer will
generally have other good stuff.

Locally a gallon of Campbell precat costs about the same as Home Despot
latex.

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I would urge you to burn $35 - $40 and buy the best enamel you can get

Kelly Moore? This is the only local store I can think of. I am pretty
much a big box store guy for anything they carry... except wood.

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On May 27, 10:49*am, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
I would urge you to burn $35 - $40 and buy the best enamel you can get

Kelly Moore? This is the only local store I can think of. I am pretty
much a big box store guy for anything they carry... except wood.

Honestly, I have shot their latex out of my airless and rolled out
some walls from time to time, but never shot any of their products
from an HVLP. They probably have a good product to use, but I
couldn't say for sure.

My first shot would be Sherwin Williams. They are the guys that have
a product for everything, and their paint goes from pretty good, to
excellent. They have many products geared toward the professional,
and in my experience have excellent customer support. When the tech
guy isn't around here locally, I just call their toll free line and
they get me lined out. I don't know how big your city is, but you may
be lucky enough to have a trained specialist there and they can get
you with the right product.

I have used their "Pro Classic Alkyd Something Something" Latex before
in semi gloss and it is great. So is their "Super Paint" line. I
have used a couple of other top end products they make in their latex
lines, but their names escape me. It is important that you contact a
**knowledgeable** sales person (ask for a commercial rep if you can as
they have more training) since SW has different products formulated
for different areas. Some of the stuff I buy isn't on their website
or product list, but I can get it easily. I just call Eddie and I am
set, as he looks it up on my account.

If applied properly on a new, dent free, properly primed surface, the
Pro Classic stuff will look sprayed if brushed; if sprayed it will
look like glass. The upper end lines also carry stern warnings about
not thinning their product, and if you have to, not more than 10%. I
can tell you I have personally shot their deep color enamels reduced
by 20% (!) and had no problems with color degradation.

Benjamin Moore also makes some excellent products, and not but a bit
of difference in the upper end products between BM and SW. I have
used their Impervo line a lot, and it shoots quite well. They make a
lot of different lines, and I have had good luck shooting all of
them.

The only reason I go to SW over BM is that SW has a large warehouse
here, and if I need a specialty product they will get it pronto. I am
EXTREMELY fond of one of their super fast dry/high build enamels. It
is impossible to beat for a kitchen paint. But it dries in 15
minutes, so it isn't for the faint of heart. They special order it
for me. As with any chain, the local stores have their own flavor,
and SW is much more contractor friendly, and they keep better records
of what I use. Also, if I can catch their sales, they are even
cheaper than HD as they will have products at 30 - 40% off.

Personally, I don't have any problems at all with HD BEHR paint. When
rolling and brushing, it works fine. Their enamel is a bit too sticky
for my taste when brushing, but still gives an acceptable end
product. I use it from time to time as my customers find colors they
like on the weekends down there and bring me the paint chips from HD.
Their wall paint and enamels shoot very well out of an airless, too.
Not much luck with the HVLP.

I don't like Valspar paint at all (Lowe's house brand), so after a
couple of unsuccessful goes with it, I don't use for anything and if
asked by a client to do so I color match to HD or SW. But, no more
Valspar for me.

Robert

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In article 58fc9723-ca86-47ce-ade7-
, says...

I would urge you to burn $35 - $40 and buy the best enamel you can get

Kelly Moore? This is the only local store I can think of. I am pretty
much a big box store guy for anything they carry... except wood.

If you're in Sonoma County, California Paint in San Fran has Benjamin
Moore, Pratt & Lambert, and M.L. Campbell. There's a Sherwin Williams
Commercial distributer (note--this is not the consumer retail store) in
Santa Rosa. There should also be an automotive paint store. Between
the three you should be able to find a finish for just about any
purpose.

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On May 27, 1:32*pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:

If you're in Sonoma County, California Paint in San Fran has Benjamin
Moore, Pratt & Lambert, and M.L. Campbell. *There's a Sherwin Williams
Commercial distributer (note--this is not the consumer retail store) in
Santa Rosa. *There should also be an automotive paint store. *Between
the three you should be able to find a finish for just about any
purpose.

With a business card he can get what he wants at the SW commercial
store. At least around here they will let you buy with cash with
proof of a business.

But BM makes a lot of great products Sonoma, so you are covered two
ways there.

J., I didn't know that MLC made any paints. Can you point me to some
info on that? I know they make tinted top coats, almost to obscure,
but no paints. I couldn't find them on their website, but like SW,
they may not list everything they sell. Our two MLC distributors here
are a couple of self important know it alls that in fact no little.
If you remember Barry from years ago here, he always loved their
finishes and tried to get me to switch. But our local guys killed
that deal.

Inquiring minds need to know.

Robert

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In article 065929b0-7174-4c41-b81b-0aa9067e3296
@c41g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, says...

On May 27, 1:32*pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:

If you're in Sonoma County, California Paint in San Fran has Benjamin
Moore, Pratt & Lambert, and M.L. Campbell. *There's a Sherwin Williams
Commercial distributer (note--this is not the consumer retail store) in
Santa Rosa. *There should also be an automotive paint store. *Between
the three you should be able to find a finish for just about any
purpose.

With a business card he can get what he wants at the SW commercial
store. At least around here they will let you buy with cash with
proof of a business.

But BM makes a lot of great products Sonoma, so you are covered two
ways there.

J., I didn't know that MLC made any paints. Can you point me to some
info on that? I know they make tinted top coats, almost to obscure,
but no paints. I couldn't find them on their website, but like SW,
they may not list everything they sell. Our two MLC distributors here
are a couple of self important know it alls that in fact no little.
If you remember Barry from years ago here, he always loved their
finishes and tried to get me to switch. But our local guys killed
that deal.

Inquiring minds need to know.

If you mean "paint" in the sense of conventional oil based or latex
paints, no. They have opaque pigmented polyurethanes, lacquers, pre-
and post- cats, waterborne post-cat urethane-acrylic, and a waterborne
precat that they don't say what the chemistry is.

http://www.mlcampbell.com/products/categories/pigmented_topcoats

These aren't clears with a little bit of tint. They're completely
opaque--two good spray coats give complete coverage. They have primers
too http://www.mlcampbell.com/products/categories/primersundercoaters.
Magnaclaw primer is white, and one spray coat thoroughly seals MDF, even
the edges.

If you want to see an example, I think I've got some scraps around
painted with Pratt & Lambert exterior alkyd and with Magnamax in the
same color--I could put some pictures up on flickr but basically you
can't tell them apart by looking at them.

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On 5/27/2011 12:06 PM, wrote:

I don't like Valspar paint at all (Lowe's house brand), so after a
couple of unsuccessful goes with it, I don't use for anything and if
asked by a client to do so I color match to HD or SW. But, no more
Valspar for me.

What about FreshAire at Lowe's?

I'm getting this product requested frequently these days, did the
interior of a new home with it a year or so ago at the customer's
request; they loved the results, and the painters didn't seem to have
any problems with application.

--
www.e-woodshop.net
Last update: 4/15/2010
KarlC@ (the obvious)

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UPDATE:

I bought the best stuff Sherwin Williams had, maybe Promark alkyd?.
Thinned it 10%, tried material feed pressure from 10lbs to 35lbs,
tried changing blower air from about 1/2 to full. Got decent covereage
in about the middle of both settings and even more air bubbles in the
finish. I'm done. Tired of cleaning the gun.

Gun might be defective or just a little too weak to blow this thicker
paint. The cap has two large and two smaller holes for the blower air.
It looks like on of the smaller holes is a little munged up so maybe
the gun needs a new cap. Still sprays lacquer fine.

I'll spray the BIN primer, sna dout the cabs and hire a painter. I'll
also have them paint the 11, 6 panel doors that come primed and the
installed pre-primed trim.

Thanks for all the help. If I upgrade to a high-end pressure pot 4
stage steup, maybe I'll try again.

Spraying Latex with HVLP
 

SonomaProducts.com wrote:


Gun might be defective or just a little too weak to blow this thicker
paint. The cap has two large and two smaller holes for the blower air.
It looks like on of the smaller holes is a little munged up so maybe
the gun needs a new cap. Still sprays lacquer fine.


I don't use a turbine set up, so I'm guessing a little bit about what your
equipment looks like, but I'm guessing the air cap is very similar to a
standard paint gun. The holes in the air cap are critical and if any one is
distorted, you can expect severe results. It's almost black magic they way
an air cap works, and it only takes an RCH to screw up the magic.

--

-Mike-

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This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries even
though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did see a
response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I veiw the
thread. A new feature?

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SonomaProducts.com wrote:
This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries even
though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did see a
response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I veiw the
thread. A new feature?

You are using google news. Any more questions?

--

-Mike-

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On May 31, 11:49*pm, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:
SonomaProducts.com wrote:

I don't use a turbine set up, so I'm guessing a little bit about what your
equipment looks like, but I'm guessing the air cap is very similar to a
standard paint gun. *The holes in the air cap are critical and if any one is
distorted, you can expect severe results. *It's almost black magic they way
an air cap works, and it only takes an RCH to screw up the magic.

Absolutely. I clean my guns more meticulously than I do my firearms.
I clean every tiny orifice in the gun as well as I possibly can, and
even keep a bottle of hard round toothpicks to clean the holes in the
air horn EVERY SINGLE TIME.

There is no point is trying to shoot a good finish with a dirty gun.
None.

There are two things to learn when using a real HVLP setup. They are
the only things that matter.

How much pressure to use, and how much to thin.

If your gun is dirty, there just isn't any point in wasting time and
effort. Use a brush.

Robert

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On Jun 1, 12:28*pm, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries even
though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did see a
response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I veiw the
thread. A new feature?

On the left hand column, click on "sort by date". That should do it.

Robert

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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:24:08 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

SonomaProducts.com wrote:
This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries even
though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did see a
response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I veiw the
thread. A new feature?

You are using google news. Any more questions?

I have one. Why isn't he using alt.freakin-gaddam.test for this?

--
Education is when you read the fine print.
Experience is what you get if you don't.
-- Pete Seeger

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Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:24:08 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

SonomaProducts.com wrote:
This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries
even though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did
see a response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I
veiw the thread. A new feature?

You are using google news. Any more questions?

I have one. Why isn't he using alt.freakin-gaddam.test for this?

I wonder if anyone uses alt.test anymore? Seems the test posts always end
up in the group with the reason that the poster just wanted to make sure it
was going to work in their intenend newsgroup. Was a time...

--

-Mike-

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On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:18 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 14:24:08 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

SonomaProducts.com wrote:
This is a test. Google news reader is only showing me 17 entries
even though it lists 19 and I can't see y last post, although I did
see a response to it on my opening page but it is not there when I
veiw the thread. A new feature?

You are using google news. Any more questions?

I have one. Why isn't he using alt.freakin-gaddam.test for this?

I wonder if anyone uses alt.test anymore? Seems the test posts always end
up in the group with the reason that the poster just wanted to make sure it
was going to work in their intenend newsgroup. Was a time...

....when people understood that anything which came out in alt.test
would also work in the intended newsgroup. sigh

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

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Larry Jaques wrote in
:

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:18 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

I wonder if anyone uses alt.test anymore? Seems the test posts always
end up in the group with the reason that the poster just wanted to
make sure it was going to work in their intenend newsgroup. Was a
time...

...when people understood that anything which came out in alt.test
would also work in the intended newsgroup. sigh


Doesn't good Usenet ettiquite suggest lurking for a couple weeks to get a
feel for the newsgroup before posting to it? I don't want to wait 2 weeks
to post a test message! (And they all say "Test--please ignore" or
something like that. I got bored after 30 seconds.)

Puckdropper

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On 02 Jun 2011 04:24:17 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:

Larry Jaques wrote in
:

On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:10:18 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

I wonder if anyone uses alt.test anymore? Seems the test posts always
end up in the group with the reason that the poster just wanted to
make sure it was going to work in their intenend newsgroup. Was a
time...

...when people understood that anything which came out in alt.test
would also work in the intended newsgroup. sigh


Doesn't good Usenet ettiquite suggest lurking for a couple weeks to get a
feel for the newsgroup before posting to it? I don't want to wait 2 weeks
to post a test message! (And they all say "Test--please ignore" or
something like that. I got bored after 30 seconds.)

CLUE: If you can successfully post in the alt.test group and see your
post, you can successfully post in any other UNmoderated group, such
as RCM, barring 3rd party (Yahoo,Google,etc) restrictions/censoring.

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

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On May 22, 9:19*pm, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,

Googl newsreader now reports 29 messages, still only shows 17

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On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 10:53:28 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:

On May 22, 9:19Â*pm, "SonomaProducts.com" wrote:
I have a Graco 3 stage HVLP. Love it for shellac, lacquer, poly, dye,

Googl newsreader now reports 29 messages, still only shows 17

Do you have it set to filter out your own messages? Google can be as
far as 12 hours behind real-time, too, so don't rule that out. They
get BUSY!

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

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Do you have it set to filter out your own messages? *Google can be as
far as 12 hours behind real-time, too, so don't rule that out. They
get BUSY!

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

Still screwed up. Says I am looking at messages 11-19 of 31 but shows
all 19 in the tree and now way to show 20-31. Opened "Industrial
Accident" and it says there is 15 messages but only shows me three.
Maybe need to learn about news readres and find something that works
better than Goog

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On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:21:00 -0700 (PDT), "SonomaProducts.com"
wrote:


Do you have it set to filter out your own messages? Â*Google can be as
far as 12 hours behind real-time, too, so don't rule that out. They
get BUSY!

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.

Still screwed up. Says I am looking at messages 11-19 of 31 but shows
all 19 in the tree and now way to show 20-31. Opened "Industrial
Accident" and it says there is 15 messages but only shows me three.
Maybe need to learn about news readres and find something that works
better than Goog

Answer: Anything else. Get Agent (or Free Agent) and grab a
subscription with one of the news providers. It's worth $2.95 a month
to me for APN news (and $30 for the reader, Agent, with a $15 upgrade
once every decade or so.)

--
Remember, in an emergency, dial 1911.