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| NightGod:
Sprayers have a pretty significant learning curve-you would think it would be easy, but there's alot of practice needed to learn exactly how fast to move the gun to get full coverage while avoiding drips and runs. If your dad has any amount of previous usage on the gun and you don't, I'd really recommend letting him do it for you. As for the problems with the rollers...I can't see why you're having that many issues, as long as you don't soak down the roller, they're pretty hard to mess up. What kind of nap rollers are you using? For a project like this, you should be using 1/4" nap (often listed as "for smooth surfaces"). |
| AMDman13:
Yep 1/4 nap foam roller. They way I have been doing it may the issue then. I have been soaking it pretty significantly and then attempting to spread the paint from the middle to the outside edges to form a light coat over the entire cab. The results are 60% of the cab comes out nice and smooth while the areas were the paint is thinner tend to be rough. However if I apply more paint to those areas then it is too thick. |
| fatfingers:
--- Quote from: marlborroman13 on July 06, 2006, 08:53:31 am ---Yep 1/4 nap foam roller. They way I have been doing it may the issue then. I have been soaking it pretty significantly and then attempting to spread the paint from the middle to the outside edges to form a light coat over the entire cab. The results are 60% of the cab comes out nice and smooth while the areas were the paint is thinner tend to be rough. However if I apply more paint to those areas then it is too thick. --- End quote --- I believe you want to use something like this. This is not the exact brand I used, but the one I used worked like magic! |
| NightGod:
--- Quote from: marlborroman13 on July 06, 2006, 08:53:31 am ---Yep 1/4 nap foam roller. They way I have been doing it may the issue then. I have been soaking it pretty significantly and then attempting to spread the paint from the middle to the outside edges to form a light coat over the entire cab. The results are 60% of the cab comes out nice and smooth while the areas were the paint is thinner tend to be rough. However if I apply more paint to those areas then it is too thick. --- End quote --- Yeah, that's probably it-you need to get the roller in the paint, get it covered, and then roll off most of the excess on the bumpy part of the roller pan-there shouldn't be very much paint at all on the roller when you actually head to the piece. What grit sandpaper are you using to smooth? |
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