{"id":171,"date":"2017-04-05T20:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/?p=171"},"modified":"2017-04-05T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:45:13","slug":"priming-first-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/2017\/04\/05\/priming-first-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Priming &#8211; first go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen and after much consternation I got going with priming the VS parts. \u00a0I have absolutely zero spraying experience so this was a voyage into the unknown. \u00a0I had purchased an\u00a0Iwata AZ3 HTE2 Water\/Solvent Spraygun from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spraygunsdirect.co.uk\/index.php\/iwata-az3-hte2-water-solvent-spraygun-works-like-it-s-twice-the-price-bargain-all-rounder.html#sthash.HaZUGFwh.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">Sprayguns Direct<\/a> who were very helpful. \u00a0They suggested a 1.5 nozzle for use with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartsystems.aero\/products\/461\/ekoprime-primersealer\" target=\"_blank\">Stewart Systems EkoPrime<\/a> and I used it undiluted. \u00a0First results were good although more by luck than judgement! \u00a0I applied a thin coat then after about 5 mins went back over with another coat. \u00a0After 2 hours I flipped the parts over and sprayed the other side. \u00a0Prep involved a scuff up with a Scotchbrite pad then a clean with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stewartsystems.aero\/category\/37\/metal-finishing\">EkoClean<\/a>, applied EkoEtch and then washed off with distilled water. \u00a0It seems to have stuck well and I&#8217;m pleased with the results. \u00a0I ordered Charcoal Grey but they sent Smoke Grey, hence the light colour.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_178\" style=\"width: 3274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-178\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_1579.jpg\" alt=\"Iwata AZ3 HTE2 Water\/Solvent Spraygun\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_1579.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_1579-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_1579-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/IMG_1579-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iwata AZ3 HTE2 Water\/Solvent Spraygun<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The good thing about using a water based primer is that cleaning up is easy which is a bit of luck as I managed to spray one end of the workshop with a fine coat of Smoke Grey &#8211; curtain required before next episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen and after much consternation I got going with priming the VS parts. \u00a0I have absolutely zero spraying experience so this was a voyage into the unknown. \u00a0I had purchased an\u00a0Iwata AZ3&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vansrv14.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}