i am building a chippendale style railing with clear cedar, several sections each appr. 10′ long. i need to paint it with white ext. latex paint and i would like to spray it. i have a large compressor and also own a kobalt gravity fed spray gun i bought from lowes a while back. it worked great with waterbased polyurothane, but i think the latex paint is to thick. any ideas to what sprayer i can use?
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coming from a stubborn, biased brush man
you are going to put a good tannin hiding / covering primer on first eh?
learned my lesson with factory primed cedarshakes, still had to prime myself after i gave it 2 topcoats, so factory primer is worth *&^%%$! still looking for some advice about spraying latex....
Thin it with flotrol. it will require more coats. I've used hvlp guns and siphon-fed, but not gravity. With either of the two I've used, latex needed to be thinned, even with a #5 cup/needle set.
Good luck.
and prime first, as the man said. two coats."I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." Invictus, by Henley.
I wouldn't spray it. Brushing is the FHB way to go. As an aside, as Nick NK said, use flowtrol, Xylol probably is the same thing, and FWIW any thinner/ reduced ending in "ol" is an alcohol ie. tolueol, methanol, ethanol, isopropynol, many of which make for good thinners/reducers. for latex paints.
WSJ