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PekkaNF:
Looks really nice.
What paint, gun and setting you used? Normal fogger or HVLP?
How did the inside corners go, I always have trouble with them.
I like light colors inside the cabinets, othervice is too damn gloomy to find anything without good light.
Pekka
micktoon:
Hi Pekka, the spray set up is normal Devilbliss JGA type gun at about 60 psi I think , to be honest I just alter settings until it feels right, the paint is 2 pack primer which sprays on nice and 'wet' so goes into the corners quite well. Something I have found to work quite well is to turn the pressure down a bit and close the fan pattern down on the gun so its more of a large spot you are spraying and go around the corners first as it will not blow back as much so will go into the corners, once you have them done put your settings back to normal and spray the rest sort of ignoring the corners. The corners will already be covered and the surrounding paint should do the remaining surfaces and blend into the corners. Hope this helps.
Cheers Mick
PekkaNF:
Thank you, That helps a lot.
You have a really nice gun. It's real HVLP, isn't it?
http://www.devilbiss.com/products/spray-guns/manual-spray-guns/hvlp/jga-510-suction-feed
Heard nice things about it.
I still have old school paint gun that needs a lot of fiddiling with fan control to spray well corners. I normaly start with hose pressure 3 bars (closer to 2 bars on gun after watertrap, hose, connectors and such), adjust the fan until get right "look". You are right on inside corners, but on old gun when you reduce fan you get really big droplets flung on surface, I need to get down on pressure and such....
Pekka
micktoon:
Hi Pekka, Yes that looks like the one, as you can see mine is an old one , I think I will have had it 25 years, the needle and air cap do make a difference, I have three guns two like this one and one is a blantant copy of this gun with no name on it but still is a good gun. That one his used for primer and has standard needle and air cap, this one is for top coat and has standard needle but alternative air cap that gives finer particles in the spray ( its in the pot steeping , in storage ) the third one is for metalics and has another diffrent needle in it but uses the same air cap as the top coat one.
I was recommended these set ups years ago from a paint sprayer and it seems to work well, I used to get too much orange peel effect on the top coat and patchiness on metalics until I used these needles and air caps.
hope this helps you
Cheers Mick
micktoon:
Well the top coat is on.......John will be gutted but its Machine Green not grey :bugeye: , I have most shelves , cupboards and quite a few things this green in the workshop so am sticking to it, except for a few machines that should be grey like the Harrison lathe, anyway the world is too grey in general so green is more cheerful and classy :thumbup:
One thing with the green is its a nightmare to get a photo showing what the colour actually looks like, I dont think any of these shots are spot on colour wise and these are the best of the bunch.
All cabinets , lightly sanded, wheels masked off and the floor swept then wet to try to keep the dust down.
I was getting pushed for space really as I was close to the next cabinet when spraying so had to be carefull where I was and also the air line and I use a lamp to shine on the area as the light not too good for spraying, The draws were also a bit dodgy for balance and getting knocked so it was just a case of be careful and keep to the system of working around the items. This is the first light coat of green.
Looking a bit more green after two coats.
This is them after three coats and the draws have dried enough to be carefully balanced back into the cabinets, I had a 5 litre tin of paint and its used 4 litres to do the three cabinets ! , spraying the insides and draws seems to eat the paint but at least they won't rust. The other shots are of the corners that were musroomed over and damaged. Overall they have came out fine , not as good as you would like if it was your classic car pride and joy but they are green and shiny.
I have sprayed the door locking rods silver and got them fitted along with the draw handles , locks etc. I have to work out the best way to do the shelves now , I think I might spray the shelf frames and drill / cut the old wood shelf incerts to fit collets etc then if they work well, I will make some new wood ones. The other thing they need is new plywood tops.
The phtotos here are more like the colour but still not right really they are actually somewhere in between the last shots above and these more bright ones in reality. Things always look better with a few parts put back on too.
I like the tall cabinet with the external top draws the best as it has a more classic look about it, it would make a nice drinks cabinet for Doubleboost to keep his red wine and Brown ale in !
Cheers Mick.
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