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Hey...if his name is "Adam"...you can say he is "Adamizing" that paint!
Sure reminds me of a friend's dad "back in the day." Ol' Jake would do anything to make/save a buck. On his used car lot...Too cheap to buy Armor-all, he would slather sugar water on old tires to make them shine. He stuffed worn engines with his secret mixture of "engine honey," and always kept an extra key, 'cause he also ran his own "re-possession" service.
Thanks for posting this. I've actually done something similar, but by just blowing into my "air-brush" when doing a small model job and not wanting to hook up the air compressor. Good old American ingenuity.John Clary
Greer, SC
SDC member since 1975
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My Dad has told be a couple of times that he painted a couple of cars with paint gun and his mother's Kirby vacuum cleaner...never knew if he was pulling my leg or not. cheers, juniorsigpic
1954 C5 Hamilton car.
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Originally posted by junior View PostMy Dad has told be a couple of times that he painted a couple of cars with paint gun and his mother's Kirby vacuum cleaner...never knew if he was pulling my leg or not. cheers, junior
Later, with all the environmental concerns, the focus was on limiting VOC emissions, improving transfer efficiency, reducing waste, and a more economic process.John Clary
Greer, SC
SDC member since 1975
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Well...after all...we are talking about "Air-Atomizers." And, to be serious for a moment, here is a little (uncredited) historical blurb I have stolen off another website.
It was in 1888 when Toledo, Ohio physician Dr. Allen DeVilbiss combined a bulb, some tubing, and the base of an oil can to create the first atomizer for health care.
In 1907, Thomas DeVilbiss, an inventor in his own right, experimented with adapting the original atomizer to create a spray gun to meet the challenges of spray finishing. Mass production was beginning to evolve at this time and Thomas DeVilbiss' spray gun technology proved to be a revolutionary addition to the paint and lacquer coating applications on the furniture and automotive finishing assembly line. Spraying the lacquer reduced drying time to hours instead of weeks and the spraying of paint replaced hand brushing, helping to create new jobs and increase productivity in manufacturing.
So, all these devices use the early principle of a technology from over a century ago. As for the fly sprayers...I have a similar dry sprayer for atomizing seven dust in the garden. The big drawback for mine is that you need to wear heavy work gloves when spraying with it. The friction of the piston causes the tin cylinder to heat up pretty quick and it gets too hot to hold with a bare hand.John Clary
Greer, SC
SDC member since 1975
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