Yesterday I was trying to get about 150' of trim sanded and hoped to get at least one coat of poly on it before leaving for the airport. So instead of spraying a piece, moving it to the drying rack and doing the next one, I thought I'd "Save some time." I set up a couple of banquet tables and threw canvas drop cloths over them as well as my bench layed everyting out and started to spray. The first piece went fine, on the second, my gun was dripping and I wasn't getting coverage. This is what the next hour looked like:
- The gun must be clogged so I cleaned the tip and tried again
- I must not have thinned the the poly correctly although I thin it very little if at all, so I drained the gun, added some thinner and tried again.
- Now I'm seeing poly backed up in the pressure tube so I replace that
- Still nothing so I drain the gun, take the whole thing apart, clean everything and reassemble, still nothing.
- I'm now out of time so I'm just going to run some thinner through it and deal with it next weekend, except that the thinner isn't coming through either.
- I pull the hose from the turbine and I have almost no air flow and immediately think I have a problem with my turbine.
- I disconnect the hose at the turbine and plenty of air coming out of the turbine, just not making through the hose.
- Look at the hose and find that the leg of one of the tables is sitting squarely on the hose and pinching it.
- Lifted the table, kicked the hose, cleaned the gun and went to the airport.
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