Tonight I shot my first Slick Sand ever, after Brian got it in my head that it was good stuff
I did it in the evening about 7:30 so it wouldn't set up real fast with heat...temp was 70-75.
I'm using a $50 Aeropro 2.5 mm cannon from TCP.
I was spraying my hoodscoop, roof, driver's door, and trunk lid. I had plenty of panels prepared to be safe in case I had leftover.
I prepared half a quart, added 11 ml of hardener (half the tube) per manufacturer recommendation. Mixed everything exceedingly well. During the day I play scientist for big pharma, so mixing reagents and preparing dilutions and ratios is nothing new to me.
I started the clock and filtered it into the cup....went very slowly through the filter.
There is also a filter in the gun that sits in the body of the gun where the cup screws into.
I go to set up my gun and I'm hardly getting anything out of it and my fan is very small. I have the fluid completely open and the fan set wide, air pressure set to gun specs. I knew right away this wasn't a good sign.
When I go to spray it was coming out almost like spatter, kind of like when you spray fine texture on the wall. I've read this stuff orange peels pretty bad but it looked like it was spraying very dry. It just didn't seem like it was coming out very well. I ended up spraying the entire half quart between the hood scoop, roof, trunk lid, and door, 1 coat. This is a 67 Mustang coupe by the way.
I've never sprayed this before, so maybe this is how it goes on, but I'm doubting it.
I am really suspecting that filter in the gun wasn't letting enough flow through? At least that's what I hope.
Any thoughts?
Side tangent: It just occurred to me today that this has got to be the most depressing forum ever. It's one tragedy after another when you read all the threads!
I did it in the evening about 7:30 so it wouldn't set up real fast with heat...temp was 70-75.
I'm using a $50 Aeropro 2.5 mm cannon from TCP.
I was spraying my hoodscoop, roof, driver's door, and trunk lid. I had plenty of panels prepared to be safe in case I had leftover.
I prepared half a quart, added 11 ml of hardener (half the tube) per manufacturer recommendation. Mixed everything exceedingly well. During the day I play scientist for big pharma, so mixing reagents and preparing dilutions and ratios is nothing new to me.
I started the clock and filtered it into the cup....went very slowly through the filter.
There is also a filter in the gun that sits in the body of the gun where the cup screws into.
I go to set up my gun and I'm hardly getting anything out of it and my fan is very small. I have the fluid completely open and the fan set wide, air pressure set to gun specs. I knew right away this wasn't a good sign.
When I go to spray it was coming out almost like spatter, kind of like when you spray fine texture on the wall. I've read this stuff orange peels pretty bad but it looked like it was spraying very dry. It just didn't seem like it was coming out very well. I ended up spraying the entire half quart between the hood scoop, roof, trunk lid, and door, 1 coat. This is a 67 Mustang coupe by the way.
I've never sprayed this before, so maybe this is how it goes on, but I'm doubting it.
I am really suspecting that filter in the gun wasn't letting enough flow through? At least that's what I hope.
Any thoughts?
Side tangent: It just occurred to me today that this has got to be the most depressing forum ever. It's one tragedy after another when you read all the threads!