what am i doing WROUNG????

[Rob Keeble]

Ok I must be having a moment i feel real stupid but can someone fill me in one what actually went wrong and what goes wrong when you spray acrylic.

I aint ever used a spray gun but very willing to learn by reading what you guys are on about.

So Larry spill the beans please for a dunny like me.?

[Don Baer]

Larry I bet you wounder how I know what you did LOL MY son just cleaned a gun that was used for acrylic lacquer in a kitchen and then ran it through the lacquer thinner. He said Dad the gun will not spray. Told him to take it apart and clean all the acrylic out of the gun all the parts need cleaning.

Been there done that...

[Darren Wright]

Ok I must be having a moment i feel real stupid but can someone fill me in one what actually went wrong and what goes wrong when you spray acrylic.

I aint ever used a spray gun but very willing to learn by reading what you guys are on about.

So Larry spill the beans please for a dunny like me.?

me too...

[larry merlau]

well i aint got the xperience like dave, has but i can mess up like he does or has the acrylic stuff is used for the sealer coat to sand easier and gives some moisture resitance..the sealer will dry like the lacquer and the sanding makes a white powder, easier to fill the pores and get a flatter finish.. then the lacquer thinner didnt get all the soapy stuff out, in the sealer you need to stir in the solids which when dry is kinda like soap.. well thick soap doesnt spray when dry.. and the nozzel had a speck stuck somewhere,, and on full blast i could get the lacquer thinner out but when i adjusted it to the spray setting no way.,. so cleaned the gun and thinned the lacquer some more and all was good again.. the sealer drys fast and doesnt thin like the regular lacquer..far as cleaning out the gun goes.. bottom line clean gun after sprayun sealer before tryun anything else

[Dave Hawksford]

Or keep a gun for sealer, a gun for color and a gun for finish. Works every time. LOL

[Rob Keeble]

Thanks for the answers Larry and Dave. Now I know why i aint got to the stage of finishing well. I still got tons to learn.

Dave one more question though. From what Larry is saying about this sealer, it would appear it drys in the spray gun fast. So how would you benefit from a dedicated gun unless you have a bunch of production to keep sealer running through it.

Am i right to presume you still would be cleaning the gun regularly, the only benefit to having a seperate one is the cross contamination?

Little bit like grinding mild steel and stainless steel welds with the same grinding disc.

[larry merlau]

first off rob,, i wasnt using acrylic like dave thought i had a sealer that had some acylic in it i think according to what i was told.. anyway that cleans with water the real acrylic stuff,, this stuff drys in the gun if air gets to it,, but the solids settle out and that is where i had the trouble the solids didnt get pushed out as good as they should have ,, basically i missed a step or didnt do it well enough

[Dave Hawksford]

Larry regular snading sealer will not cause the gun to clog, You may have gotten hold of some Acrylic lacquer. We use that in homes for kitchen jobs.