Door Painting

[Deere Dude]

I tried finding a viscosity measuring devise for a while and couldn't, so I just thinned it down to where it seemed to thin, then it painted quite well. Can go two coats if needed.

If I left it thicker I had all kinds of trouble plugging up and spitting.

Now i see from a previous post I was looking for a viscosity cup, but I wouldn't pay that much anyway.

 

[ray66v]

I tried finding a viscosity measuring devise for a while and couldn't, so I just thinned it down to where it seemed to thin, then it painted quite well. Can go two coats if needed.

If I left it thicker I had all kinds of trouble plugging up and spitting.

Now i see from a previous post I was looking for a viscosity cup, but I wouldn't pay that much anyway.

All a Zahn viscosity cup is, is a cup with a hole in it.

You still need to know what size hole, and how long the time to empty is, to use one.

That all changes with each product, and different conditions.

But, you can make a cup with a hole in it, and do your own timed test, when you get it thinned to where you want it. So, you can use that viscosity in the future.

You want it just thin enough to spray well.

You can find that with trial and error.

 

[timswi]

Thanks all...looks like using my old siphon gun with lightly diluted latex will probably be the answer...

 

[murphy1244]

Thanks all...looks like using my old siphon gun with lightly diluted latex will probably be the answer...

Do you have primer gun? That's what I would use.

 

[timswi]

Do you have primer gun? That's what I would use.

Yeah, that's the siphon gun (verboten by the tree police) and I'd rather use that than my Binks for latex.

 

[sld]

A quality roller goes a looong way if you have everything set up to do at one time.

 

[brown40]

If you are painting one door only, why waste time setting up and cleaning out a sprayer of any kind? I'd pull the door, lay it vertical, brush the edges, roll the top. If you don't like the rolled finish, use the brush to make your laps how you'd like, wrap the roller and wet brush in plastic wrap or a disposable shopping bag, wait for that side to dry, then flip it over and do the other side. Two or three thin coats will be a snap, no cutting, taping or drips to worry about, and no temptation to lay it up thick and have a soft cure on it.

 

[ray66v]

Yeah, that's the siphon gun (verboten by the tree police) and I'd rather use that than my Binks for latex.

I use one of my good guns, when I need to spray latex.

No big deal, it cleans right up.

 

[RBLapham]

I use my 40 year old Binks #7 and clean up with lacquer thinner. Gun still like new, always clean it so you can not tell what color paint was in it.

 

[EddieWalker]

As a person who does remodels for a living, painting doors and trim is something I'm always doing. I have two different airless spray guns. One that I mostly use for enamel. The other is the big one that I put five gallon buckets of paint under it and spray entire houses. The only time I have ever sprayed trim on a house is when it's new construction and there are no floors installed. Then I can spray without taping anything. That's about the only time I consider it better then using a brush. All other times, it's faster and easier to just paint a door with a brush.