I've been practicing with JetFlex WR on some scrap and my old toolbox practice kits before starting to spray parts that will go into my plane. So far I haven't been able to get it as smooth as I would like so I wanted to see if anyone has been able to get a smoother finish and if anyone has any tips. The picture below is about as good as I've done so far...yeah there's a lot of dust in it, I'm thinking about building a paint booth for the real parts.
This was done with the paint reduced about 50%. I was only intending to reduce it about 25% (based on the paint's instructions) but I was using a very small batch of paint for this and I wasn't very precise with my gallon jug of distilled water. Although, other times when the paint was reduced 25% turned out pretty similar.
Under the JetFlex is a PPG Omni epoxy primer.
I'm using a Devilbiss FLG4 with a 1.3mm tip (read a blog somewhere that said a Sherwin Williams rep told them 1.3 would be fine) and the pressure set to about 23psi with the trigger pulled per the spray gun's instructions. About 50% overlap while spraying.
My guess is that I just don't know how to properly spray a medium wet coat, which is what the JetFlex WR instructions recommend, and I haven't found any good explanations online on how to do it either. The picture below is my best guess of what a medium wet coat looks like right after spraying it. Any dryer than that and the orange peel is worse or it feels like sand paper after it dries.
This was done with the paint reduced about 50%. I was only intending to reduce it about 25% (based on the paint's instructions) but I was using a very small batch of paint for this and I wasn't very precise with my gallon jug of distilled water. Although, other times when the paint was reduced 25% turned out pretty similar.
Under the JetFlex is a PPG Omni epoxy primer.
I'm using a Devilbiss FLG4 with a 1.3mm tip (read a blog somewhere that said a Sherwin Williams rep told them 1.3 would be fine) and the pressure set to about 23psi with the trigger pulled per the spray gun's instructions. About 50% overlap while spraying.
My guess is that I just don't know how to properly spray a medium wet coat, which is what the JetFlex WR instructions recommend, and I haven't found any good explanations online on how to do it either. The picture below is my best guess of what a medium wet coat looks like right after spraying it. Any dryer than that and the orange peel is worse or it feels like sand paper after it dries.