Wireless Set No. 52 Canadian - Project

[David Dunlop]

A dawn of a new day and I am right back at square one.

After spending a good hour yesterday morning setting up my spray paint equipment in the garage and getting the paint filtered and mixed to the recommended 4:1 ratio, I took another 20 minutes or so adjusting the spray gun to get, what I thought was a good paint flow...

The test piece I worked on had a nice even gloss to the paint when I switched to the Coil front panel. Again, the paint went down in what appeared to be a nice even glassy gloss. It was a little thicker than I wanted, as a slight ridging was starting to show up around the outside edge of the panel, but I was happy so into the house the panel went to dry. It looked good for about one hour. Then, a mist of what first looked like very tiny bubbles slowly started to appear in the paint. Eight hours in and the paint was still very wet and the misty look even more evident, but at least the perimeter ridging was starting to to disappear.

This morning, 22 hours later, the paint is dry but the finish has turned to sandpaper once again. I have no choice now but to resand this sucker once it hard cures and start over. More time wasted.


David