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Re: Do you paddle that boat?
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 7/21/2013, 2:15 am
In Response To: Re: Do you paddle that boat? (Dan Caouette (CSCWC))

Best way to spray most conventional varnishes (though it takes some experimenting) is to thin it with heat, not solvents. Hot varnish cures really quickly once sprayed, has little time to get runs and drips and flows out nice too.

Keeping it hot is "interesting" can't keep much in the gun at once or it cools with the air movement, at one time you could buy heated cups for guns, not sure they are available anymore, gets weird having an air hose and an extension cord to the gun.

I find it easier to roll and tip it, far less time messing around trying to clean up afterwards too.

Bill H.

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Charles Robinson -- 7/10/2013, 2:07 pm
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Sodbuster -- 7/10/2013, 2:58 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/10/2013, 5:21 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 7/10/2013, 6:39 pm
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Kurt Maurer -- 7/10/2013, 7:48 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/10/2013, 7:52 pm
Re: Strip: How many coats of varnish My mistake
Marc Upchurch -- 7/10/2013, 8:49 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 7/10/2013, 11:55 pm
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Charles Robinson -- 7/11/2013, 8:39 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 7/15/2013, 1:18 pm
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Jeff Horton -- 7/11/2013, 12:26 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2013, 2:26 pm
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Charles Robinson -- 7/11/2013, 2:59 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/11/2013, 3:08 pm
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Nick Riccardi -- 7/11/2013, 3:14 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/11/2013, 3:30 pm
Do you paddle that boat?
Jay Babina -- 7/11/2013, 5:09 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/11/2013, 6:18 pm
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SCOTT FITZGERRELL -- 7/18/2013, 3:38 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/19/2013, 8:53 am
Re: Do you paddle that boat?
Bill Hamm -- 7/21/2013, 2:15 am
Close-up of the deck *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSCWC) -- 7/11/2013, 6:22 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 7/11/2013, 6:25 pm
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Allan -- 7/11/2013, 6:49 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/12/2013, 4:12 am
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Charles Robinson -- 7/12/2013, 8:37 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/12/2013, 2:47 pm
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David Bartnowski -- 7/12/2013, 5:52 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/12/2013, 2:50 pm
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Gene -- 7/13/2013, 12:47 pm
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Allan -- 7/13/2013, 5:56 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 7/14/2013, 2:28 am
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Mike Savage -- 7/15/2013, 4:48 am
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Gene -- 7/14/2013, 9:09 am
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Bill Hamm -- 7/15/2013, 12:46 am
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Gene -- 7/15/2013, 9:11 am