Unaxol/Airbrush

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GregMuller

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Is anyone useing Unaxol with a airbrush. If so can you tell me how it works for you and your method. I am thinking of buying the HF airbrush and trying this. Thanks.
 
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Sorry, I haven't tried Unaxol yet. Reading their websites I'm not sure how it will work via an airbrush. You would have to thin it down to get a good spray and it thins with water which could cause raised grain.

for $6, what is stopping you from trying it and telling us how it works? [:D] It won't be a wasted $6 because you can spray normal lacquer just fine!

GK
 
I can't spray regular lacquer because of the smell. Workshop is in the basement. I am waiting to hear back from Troy at Moby Dick. They sell a reducer which I suspect is what to use as a thinner. I was hoping someone here had tried this.
 
Greg, do you have any sort of window, even a casement window, in your basement? If not, do you have a dryer vent or anything about 4" diameter or larger that goes outside? If you do, you can build a cabinet that will hold your rods, with a filter at the back much like a regular air filter many of us have in our shops, and make the back of the cabinet reduce down to a comfortable size. You can then pick-up one of the exhaust fans fro Home Depot or Lowes that are designed for the Bathrooms in houses and install this in the back of the cabinet and run some flexible hose to your "outside outlet". You can then spray laquer in this cabinet or booth with an airbrush or "aerosol" can with the exhaust fan turend on which will suck 99% percent of the fumes and spary out. The spray gets trapped in the filter, and the fumes are vented outside. Works pretty well.

Rob
 
I still have a little of the sample I have been using. I can try to airbrush tomorrow. I believe it will need to be thinned slightly. BUT if I seal the grain with the sanding sealer it should be ok.
 
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