Yeah - it's really time I stopped leaching off my friendly local spray shop guy for use of his equipment and bought my own compressor. Trouble is, every time I look at them my ambition gets bigger than my pocket...

- C

Aldi have a very decent home compressor in at the moment for their usual cheapskate rates. It would serve perfectly for spraying 4 or 5 bodies a year.

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Father in Law loves tools never knows what to give for Chistmas so I just toss a hint each year thats a tool and wala guess what I get. He is a tool junkie has a 30X30 shop over there with many toys and a lot of them he has never even used but he had to have. He has two shop smiths I have only seen him use one. I would like to have his planer the comes in handy.

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Ceri, i think you may have hit the nail right square on the head. Redmax61 said he was using acrylic lacquer, maybe you need to spray super thin coats, I have heard many times it is way less forgiving than Nitro. i have only ever shot with a compressor and spray guns, not rattle cans,so if i get sags (less extreme version of your wrinkles,) i adjust my flow, and or air pressure. so maybe he only needed to move the can faster, and avoid the thicker coat?

Solution might have been too simple to readily pop to mind?

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since this thread is off the rails, i wanna vent. i need to spray outside, as I have no garage, and don't want to blow up my house spraying in the basement. Had a nice warm week, and all the snow was gone, I half assembled the portable greenhouse I have adapted into a spray booth for my deck, and was setting up to start spraying on my ibanez.

The other morning I awoke to this:








it lasted for the better part of 2 days, those pictures were at 7 AM the first day. Since then it hasn't topped the freezing point (well it did briefly, just enough for some rain, which coated my whole deck in a couple inches of ice.)
So I am probably hooped until at least another week, til i have more days off, provided the weather cooperates.

well, I am done being all emo.

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Just to add my $.02 worth to all of this, I just posted my comments in that original thread. The big things I was seeing there were first the use of polys and lacquers. Mixing and matching is always a bad idea when it comes to any chemicals. Second was his use of Duplicolor...I have to wonder if he had an enamel sneak in there was Duplicolor products aren't always that well marked. Also he said primer a couple of times...not sure if it was lacquer primer or enamel primer though.

It's certainly possible that the issue could have been from spraying too heavily but to me it really sounds like a chemical compatibility issue. I've had to learn a lot of things the hard way over the years and one thing I've learned is that when it comes to lacquer, you don't mix it with ANYTHING other than lacquer. I knew a guy once who tried to use enamel primer with a black lacquer top coat on a '76 Pontiac Grand Prix...damn thing ended up looking like a zebra! LOL! They say you can spray enamel over lacquer but you can't spray lacquer over enamel...and poly is just another facet of the same debate. I find it's always best to just stick with all one or the other.

Again just my $.02 worth,
Jim

Trust me CV pops in law wont be too interested in tools from aldi. Its a german supermarket that sells everything dirt cheap and does have some good stuff at great prices. I bought my aircon there for £150 (keep the arctic dog cool) and my laptop. Its a good place to shop if you like fixing things

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Déjà vu!

We had some domestic work done a couple of weeks ago by a metal specialist and I was very interested to see inside the back of his big truck, which he has rigged as an entire mobile workshop, including a small forge in one corner. And right there amongst some highly exotic and desirable tools was the very Aldi compressor you're talking about.

I was quite surprised, given the quality of some of his gear, but he said it gets the job done fine, if it breaks he can just toss it on a skip without a second thought, and nobody is likely to steal it when he's working on site.

Perhaps cheap and cheerful's the way to go after all. I get the feeling my local spray shop guy has seen enough of guitar bodies for a while...

Cheers - C

I've spent thousands on tools for my job (£2500 leicia greenbeam laser level anyone) there comes a point where you do just look at things and think 'I'd be better off with a throwaway one'. For the £70 odd the compresser sells for if you get 5 bodies out of it, it wont owe you anything.

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SOLD!

Now, where the heck is my nearest Aldi...?

Cheers - C

I don't know about the UK, but right now where I live tools are on major sale. Picking up new stuff for less than I would pay for used a year or so ago.

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