I drug out my bedroom furniture today and started painting it with my HVLP Sprayer. I got everything primed with unthinned primer which is pretty thick. The directions said to not thin the primer if you are covering stains. I had my doubts about getting this thick primer to go through the sprayer without spitting big globs everywhere since the directions on my sprayer say to thin the paint to a much thinner degree. The primer did a great job without being thinned. The latex paint had to be thinned a good bit to get good results.
I don’t know how I got along without my paint spraying system. I ended up pulling an end table out of the attic and primed it. Got two patio chairs off the deck and primed them also. Guess I was on a roll. Tomorrow I get to finish painting all of it. Actually I’m looking farward to it. Going to put some dark glaze on after it is all dry to antique it.
Happiness is having great tools to work with!!!!!!!!!
BT
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bt,
What brand of sprayer did you get? I recently got a Turbinaire, and love it. Can't let the wife know how much I like it though; next thing I know I'll have a shop full of stuff with honey-do's attached.
Richard
Mine is an Apollo and I bought it at last falls Louisville woodworking show. What sold me was the no overspray effect when I tried it at the show. I got all the excessories they had and bought some extra bottles for the small amount attachment (six ounce size). It kinda lets you change colors on the fly by changing to a different bottle with water to rinse the paint out of the sprayer and then change to a new bottle with a new color.
I got everything painted with latex today except the two patio chairs. My furniture turned out great.
Happy painting
BT
latex is not a good choice for any horizontal surfaces. It never completely hardens.
I use Fuhrs acrylic paint products (available from Homestead finishings or from the manufacturer). This stuff is fantastic. I now mill all my millwork and most of my cabinetry from MDF boards. Two coats of Fuhrs (primer and topcoat) of acrylic paints completely covers the MDF, as long as the milled parts have been sanded to 120. My only problem is that when I prepaint my millwork, I still get dimples when shooting the moulding. Nail holes can be filled, but the dimples can't be eliminated. Only solution would be to spray in place. Then one could sand the dimples out. What a mess! Plus, vertical surfaces are a heck of a lot harder to spray than horizontal.
Sorry, I got my paint catagories mixed up. It is enamel, not latex. They said I should use it on the furniture when I was buying my paint. We are not too happy with the color we chose and we are thinking of doing it again only this time a little darker. Also thinking about trying some airbrush shading on it. The brush on-wipe off glaze effect leaves it too streaky. Going to keep at it until we get it just right. Oh boy, I get to use my sprayer some more!!!
BT
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