myersw on fri 20 sep 02
Fellow Potters:
What are some tricks to tell where you have been when spraying glaze on =
a pot?
Thanks to anyone who answers my question.
Pat Southwood on sat 21 sep 02
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From: "myersw"
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Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 2:30 AM
Subject: spraying glaze question.
Dear Myersaw,
If your glaze is the same colour as your claybody it can be a bit tricky,
try a few drops of food colouring, then you can see where you have been.
Best Wishes
Pat..
Fellow Potters:
What are some tricks to tell where you have been when spraying glaze on a
pot?
Thanks to anyone who answers my question.
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foxpots on sat 21 sep 02
1. Always be SURE your spray gun is spraying. I spray a wall in front of
my wheel (on which my pot is placed and which spins while I spray) to check
and be sure glaze is coming out adequately. Sometimes if I'm not sure, I
spray my hand.
2. When I spray white I spray till it is fuzzy looking. When I spray blue
I spray till it is fuzzy looking (it is pale lavender and hard to see).
When I spray green I can see the glaze and how much build up has occurred.
3. I do A LOT of spraying.
Jean Cochran
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What are some tricks to tell where you have been when spraying glaze on a
pot?
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mudslingers@ATT.NET on sun 22 sep 02
>question posed:
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>What are some tricks to tell where you have been when spraying glaze on a pot?
>Thanks to anyone who answers my question.
using my cheapo banding wheel which is on a small pedestal, i stick a "post-it"
on the underside of the wheel head. it hangs down so i can see it. that's my
starting point. then i count rotations as i spray. with terra sig, usually 3 is
a good covering. with glazes, depending on thickness, it could be 3-5
rotations.
lauren
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WHC228@AOL.COM on mon 23 sep 02
Lauren
If the problem relates to spraying one glaze over another that are both
white, you may want to add a little tempra paint to one of the glazes so that
you can tell where you have been.
The thickness issue comes with experience. Counting revelations can help if
the viscosity of your glazes remains the same from one session to the next.
Keeping the water at the lowest possible level and still being able to spray
will keep the defects down.
Like anything else the better the spray equipment that you can use, the
better the results.
I like to use a gun that has a pressurized pot. It feeds the gun glaze. That
allows the fluid to spray on the pot with less air moving through the gun.
Less glaze is wasted, because there is less overspray, and there is less air
blowing on the pot.
If you are going to do a lot of spraying contact me directly and I will give
you some part numbers for Binks equipment that are made of better metals and
don't wear out easily.
Bill Campbell
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