Greetings fellow listees,
I'd like to relate an experience I've been having for far too long.
I've been trying to refinish a piano and As Terry Farrell experienced
too, there was a great deal of orange peel. Finally I have found the
correct solution (for me).
It seems that I was using the needle, nozzle and air cap that came
with my Accuspray turbine and gun unit. I was assured that this was what
i needed for the task I was trying to perform. I just recently, on the
advice of a different salesman who's company also sells these units,
changed all three parts to near the smallest orifice parts made for this
gun. It seems that water based lacquer has very small solids or
something like that. Anyway it worked like a charm. I have been trying
to achieve a solution based on other things like too high a temperature
and adding retarder, too fast a delivery, too slow a delivery, product
too thick (that one didn't seem right) and a host of other worries
involving spray conditions. The new gun parts changed everything and all
things are now as they should be.
I write this only to give a "heads up" to others who may be spraying
water based for the first time. It seems a very high atomization rate is
in order. Straighten that out before you begin and you will have saved
yourself a great deal of time, believe me! Oh! and don't use steel wool
with water based products either. Go ahead, ask me how I know.
Best,
Greg
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Greg Newell
Greg's Piano Forté
12970 Harlon Ave.
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
216-226-3791
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
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