Cheap, hopper-feed spray gun for Duratex - thoughts?

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Re: Cheap, hopper-feed spray gun for Duratex - thoughts?

#31 Post by jswingchun »

DaveK wrote:Another thing to watch out for is consistency between coats. If you stand a cab on something to spray 5 sides, wait for them to try, then spray the last side, the odd side never looks exatcly the same.
If I am spraying something that will have rubber feet, I put some long screws just barely into the screw holes to use as "legs". I spray that side first, then flip the cab over so it sits on those screw legs. Then I spray the rest of the cab.

If you were spraying a cab without feet but with corner protectors, you could probably make small holes that would be hidden by the corners, and don't go all the way thru the panel, and do something similar.
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Re: Cheap, hopper-feed spray gun for Duratex - thoughts?

#32 Post by el_ingeniero »

The problem with a dedicated paint jig is is that when you are doing several cabs at once, where do you put a freshly painted cab to dry while you go to town on the next cab?

I'm probably going to hang my cabs from the access panel holes all in a row, and use my hand to turn them around so I can work in one position.

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