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Spattering with paint gun !!!

zaapped
13 years ago

I have a gravity fed air paint gun and was painting some metel (olympic bench press) that I wired brushed, primed, and sanded. After I began to paint I noticed that as I would squeeze the trigger on the air gun, it would lose slight air pressure about a second after and you would have to wait for a split second for air pressure to return. I later found that the filter I used coming from the compresser was causing the air loss.

So the problem is, the paint hit the metel with a slight spatter look, feels almost like real fine sand paper but not noticeable unless you feel it. Since I fixed the problem with air loss, Can I expect to fill in the low spots with my next spray or will this need to be fine sanded to give a smooth finish? I am using Valspar Exterior Semi Gloss from Lowes.

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