Oxford Premium Spray Lacquer

[bases-loaded@juno.com]

Hi Greg -

I use an Accuspray conversion gun (HVLP, but runs from a compressor), and
have been using a .036 needle/nozzle set with a #7 air cap.  Little or no
orange peel.  

Mark Potter
bases-loaded@juno.com


On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 22:51:02 -0400 Greg Newell <gnewell@ameritech.net>
writes:
> 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
> 
> --
> Greg Newell
> Greg's Piano Forté
> 12970 Harlon Ave.
> Lakewood, Ohio 44107
> 216-226-3791
> mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net
> 
> 
>