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  0 Thread: Cleaning Spray Gun
Post: RE: Cleaning Spray Gun
Willyou Wrote: (08-29-2023, 09:41 AM) -- I would be very careful about using solvents that might dissolve plastic such as lacquer thinner. -- I reread the manual again, but it says nothing about av...
 Bencuri Finishing 10 306 08-31-2023, 07:26 PM
  0 Thread: Cleaning Spray Gun
Post: RE: Cleaning Spray Gun
Willyou Wrote: (08-26-2023, 11:34 AM) -- So. Two different sections of the manual are in conflict. These days, that along with strange translations are not unusual. You need to decide which is correc...
 Bencuri Finishing 10 306 08-29-2023, 09:04 AM
  0 Thread: Cleaning Spray Gun
Post: RE: Cleaning Spray Gun
Willyou Wrote: (08-25-2023, 07:05 PM) -- What does the manual say about using paint based on solvents other than water? Perhaps that particular sprayer is only intended to be used with water based pa...
 Bencuri Finishing 10 306 08-25-2023, 08:09 PM
  0 Thread: Cleaning Spray Gun
Post: Cleaning Spray Gun
I have an electric paint sprayer. I have always thought when you clean these, you need to add the solvent of the paint you used into the can, and clean the spraygun spraying that solvent out from the ...
 Bencuri Finishing 10 306 08-25-2023, 06:47 PM
  0 Thread: How many pound cut is Zinsser SealCoat?
Post: How many pound cut is Zinsser SealCoat?
How much is the shellac amount in this product, anyone knows? https://www.rustoleum.com/product-catalog/consumer-brands/zinsser-products/woodcare/sealcoat-universal-sanding-sealer
 Bencuri Finishing 3 233 08-16-2023, 10:38 AM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-14-2023, 07:45 PM) -- You do it as I said.  Take your sponge saturated with the dye and wipe it on liberally.  Some flows off the edges, but not a lot.  In this case, you don't ca...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-18-2023, 08:43 AM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
This one is also interesting, kind of unbelieveable for me: https://youtu.be/cQZprL5qVt0?t=44 To see the way she is overlapping with the dye, and then the camera showing the top later being even...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-14-2023, 01:50 AM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Impressive but still would be a mistery for me how to achieve this. For example, the table top: how can you color that with flooding? You may need to pour a ton of dye, and most will flow off, resulti...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-14-2023, 01:26 AM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-11-2023, 03:05 PM) -- Do one side at a time.  This isn't rocket science.  You keep finding reasons the process won't work rather than looking for ways to make it work.  There's a ...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-13-2023, 03:06 AM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-10-2023, 11:45 AM) -- Then you are doing it wrong.  FLOOD it on and wait a minute.  If any area gets dry add more.  It will absorb what it can and wiping it won't remove what it a...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-11-2023, 02:47 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-09-2023, 07:41 PM) -- When doing it by hand it's best to flood it on and then wipe off the excess with the same sponge after wringing it out.  Pay attention to edges, holes, etc.,...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-09-2023, 08:01 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-09-2023, 01:55 PM) -- There's no substitute for good technique gained by practice.  And using at least two layers of lower concentration dye to build the color will minimize any o...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-09-2023, 05:28 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Willyou Wrote: (07-09-2023, 03:14 PM) -- To reiterate, I built a desk a few years ago with a very large top. I used Transtint dye mixed in water and was able to easily spread it over the entire area ...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-09-2023, 05:17 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-08-2023, 06:25 PM) -- No substitute for practice, no matter how you go about it.  As WillYou said, it's a little easier with water, or even a 50/50 mix of alcohol/water.  And as I...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-08-2023, 09:36 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: RE: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
jteneyck Wrote: (07-06-2023, 07:19 PM) -- Two basic options.  Spraying the dye is the best way, especially if you spray two or more lower coats at lower concentration to build the color to what your ...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-08-2023, 05:36 PM
  0 Thread: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
Post: Can't do overlapping with alcohol dye
I have been trying to use alcohol dye (aniline dye), but never succeed to paint the wood nicely with it. The problem is: when there is a spot where brushstrokes overlap, usually they will become visib...
 Bencuri Finishing 21 825 07-06-2023, 06:11 PM
  0 Thread: To Sand or Not To Sand?
Post: To Sand or Not To Sand?
Since I am doing woodworking and looking for information on finishing, sanding always comes up as a crucial step in the process, almost as a kind of holy grail of a nice finish. When I mention somewhe...
 Bencuri Finishing 2 271 07-04-2023, 06:21 PM
  0 Thread: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
Post: RE: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
Woodenfish Wrote: (06-30-2023, 07:49 PM) -- I would have sealed the wood with wax free shellac prior to painting oil base polyurethane varnish. I would also have primed the wood to seal it prior to p...
 Bencuri Finishing 17 932 06-30-2023, 11:21 PM
  0 Thread: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
Post: RE: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
Cabinet Monkey Wrote: (06-28-2023, 11:05 AM) -- Do those and stop fixating on why, then report back to us. -- That can come only later because I had spent so much money for these paints that I need...
 Bencuri Finishing 17 932 06-28-2023, 08:18 PM
  0 Thread: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
Post: RE: Enamel paint does not flow out on first coat
jteneyck Wrote: (06-25-2023, 12:39 PM) -- As I suspected, it's clear you are not using a typical oil based paint, one where the thinner is mineral spirits.  What you have is a product with a solvent ...
 Bencuri Finishing 17 932 06-25-2023, 06:09 PM

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