Oxford Premium Spray Lacquer

[Farrell]

Hi Mark. Just curious if you have any input on this - I run my gun up around
25 or 30 PSI. Any idea for the discreptancy between the two? Where are you
measuring air pressure - at the gun or at the compressor? When I run the
pressure down, the effect is that the fluids come out at a very low
pressure/rate and do not appear (my visual judgement) to atomize much at
all. With the pressure up high, it really atomizes. I am using an Asturo
ECO/S gravity feed gun. It was recommended to me by Jeff Jewitt. I was not
having success with my turbine-Accuspray, and the Accuspray gun drove me
nuts when trying to clean - what a job! The Asturo requires absolultely no
dissassembly - you just run a tad of warm water through it and it is clean
as new.

Do you thin your PSL? Have you tried any of their other finish products?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: <bases-loaded@juno.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: Oxford Premium Spray Lacquer


> Hi Terry -
>
> On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 08:01:38 -0400 "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> writes:
> > What kind of pressure are you running AT THE GUN?
>
> app. 5.5 - 7 psi, depending on the material, and a rather bewildering set
> of 'intangibles' that just might include how Mercury is aligned with
> Mars.... hard to tell sometimes.  Whatever works best, of course is the
> glib answer.  Believe it or not, to some degree I think I calibrate it to
> the way it 'sounds' coming out of the gun.  Sounds like I've been
> overcome by fumes, I know, but there IS a certain sssssssssss sound that
> ssspellsss ssssuccesssss when ssssspraying.    Actually, probably 80% of
> the time I have it set at 5.5 - 6.
>
> >
> > Question for Greg and Mark. When spraying a piano lid, do you hang
> > the lid vertically and spray both sides at once, or do you lay it
> horizontal
> > and spray one side at a time.
>
> Horizontal.  I'm not in that big a hurry.
>
>
> >If you lay it horizontal, how long do you  wait before flipping it over?
>
>
> At least 3 days, sometimes as much as 7 if I'm busy with outside work.
>
>
> >If horizontal, do you put all your coats on
> > one side, and then start coating the other side?
>
> Yes.
>
> Mark Potter
> bases-loaded@juno.com