welcome back guys ryan here from the london craftsman i hope you're well
and today's video is all about spraying and in particular spraying mdf panels
so what you see beside me is a grayco 695 airless sprayer and i'm spraying about 1600 psi
i've got my dulux tray diamond eggshell very very very tough finish and i've done my usual technique
of using the top coat as the undercoat so they've had their top coat both sides they've been all
bought in to the workshop next door rubbed down with p240 all the air assists stand up as well
brought back in after they've been re-dusted and we're at the stage where one face has then had its
final two coats completely finished three coats in total and i'm on the second face now which
is on its second coat so we're at the stage where we're just doing the final two coats so
i'm gonna just go and spray a little bit show you how i spray how fast i spray to achieve
those finishes and also also a quick glimpse of what it looks like once it's actually finished
so i'm going to pick up a couple of bits and here i've got myself a small panel
this size has been completed i'm on to the coat the face that's only had one coat on
just making sure there is no debris just double checking okay so i'm not a god at spraying i've
sprayed a fair amount maybe over the last eight years or so i've been using airless sprayers but
maybe only about four or five of those been spraying actual mdf panels what i'm telling
you now is what i've learned and what i feel you need to do i've got myself a fine finish tip which
is a 310 and i just give the edge a burst so i start my gun away spray let go here and again
very short and sweet very quick and at the back you can either just turn the white piece around
and spray the same or go from the back okay and to get a nice finish we need to move this fast
i know it looks ridiculous and the hvlp is probably a caught the speed but this is how
fast you need to move look i'm about 250 mil high the lower i go the less nice pattern you're going
to get it's going to be a lot more a lot less atomized it's going to be a bit more pulled
you know so we want to get those nice atomized finish so let's start from the top start away
don't overdo it remember you're building up the coats
i'm sure you can see i will give you a little um view in a minute that's one and i'm you can hear
i've got my space heater on just shoving this in the rack for the moment i'll get myself one more
here we go so this one is finished and flipping it over as you can see it's
only one coat it's a bit see-through but that still is very very good for one coat
it's very very smooth using the eggshell as the primer um works an absolute treat it's flat
it feels like glass it really is flat with no lumps or bumps smooth
so same technique again i'll show you once more make sure your bench is clean as well and
there's no paint that's going to stick to your other side
and then 200 250mm high one two three four five six seven again you do whatever you
feel is right but don't put it on too heavy and this is what you should achieve so let's go and
set this up in an area where there's a little bit of light and i'll show you the finishes
so this piece was sprayed just now
and it does dry flatter considering we're spraying with household paints
without thinning at close to 2000 psi
it's a very very very good finish and i'll pick up one as well that has been completed both sides
so this one here i haven't flipped over yet this is a completed one that's had weakened to dry
so look at the edges as well
the edges are solid and believe me when i say that this is a very durable finish
i have alcove units in my front room and i've sprayed it in exactly the same way my kids smash
things up against it things get left on the ledges scrapes along the tops ornaments and it hardly
marks it really you know it's very very durable so this had three coats all the edges have probably
had a few more hits because every time i do a face i do all edges as well so i do three coats
on each face so every edge has had six hits but just because it's worth it it builds it
up and it just gives you a nice round finish on the corners look how nice those corners are
and this is the one that's drying so this has had its second remember it's got one more coat after
it but ultimately it will finish up like this one so all i really need to do is just finish
these panels and this as you see is one particular job that a customer wanted me to do so the panels
have been cut up by a cutting edge workshop for us and edged with pre-edging tape and
uh spray by myself in exactly the same way as i've just told you so heater on fans on the go
two fans over there my graco695 remember you can use any airless sprayer they as long as you use
the right pressure every sprayer should spray near enough the same if you're using the same pressure
my 310 fine finish tip got a turntable on the top decent filters to suck out your over spray
good extraction as in the air sucking through good racks bit of space and heat is a must so
there are they're the ingredients if you like that you need
to be able to give yourself an absolutely perfect finish every time without any fuss
or any knowledge of sprayers to be honest hvlp as we all know is um another ball game another
thing to learn which is you know my friend is a is a car sprayer and he says it is quite fiddly
and you need to learn a little bit more and also the paints are a bit stinky and uh hvlp
is like a caught the spree at the speed because he has actually um used my eyelash spray on here
so i like to stick with the airless i'm very happy with my setup at the moment
i'm just sharing my knowledge of how i get an absolutely flawless finish on any type of sheet
material or any piece of furniture to be fair as long as you're spraying over a sound material
so that's me saying over and out i hope you enjoyed that video guys
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comment love to hear back from you so take it easy guys see you in the next one bye for now