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Offline Derek

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Spraying pieces
« on: January 24, 2018, 05:04:05 PM »
I am in the process of making a piece and thought I would pass this on, I don't know if anyone has done this before as I have not seen it.

This is the piece which I have sprayed the inside a copper colour and wanted to spray the outside with ebonizing spray to which I will be adding more colour to later.

The question is how do you do this without getting over spray on the copper inside. Well rather than spend time masking everything op I simply "used a balloon" by giving it a gentle squeeze at the top will force it down to cover the lower section, The phot is just to give an idea on how I did it.

Sorry if this has been done before but as I said not that I have seen or even read about it

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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2018, 05:06:20 PM »
Necessity is the mother of inventkion someone said. Clever idea. Now if you buy a pack of balloons and advertise them as insulators for the inside of pierced work sure someone will buy them LOL.

Pete
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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2018, 05:20:47 PM »
Necessity is the mother of inventkion someone said. Clever idea. Now if you buy a pack of balloons and advertise them as insulators for the inside of pierced work sure someone will buy them LOL.

Pete

The other good thing is that many paints will just rub off. I should have pointed out that some paints may attack the balloon so check first

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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2018, 09:26:33 PM »
Necessity is the mother of inventkion someone said. Clever idea. Now if you buy a pack of balloons and advertise them as insulators for the inside of pierced work sure someone will buy them LOL.

Pete

The other good thing is that many paints will just rub off. I should have pointed out that some paints may attack the balloon so check first

Perhaps a condom? Apparently they are pretty tough compared to ballonns.

Pete
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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2018, 09:33:23 PM »

Perhaps a condom? Apparently they are pretty tough compared to ballonns.

Pete

Balloons are cheaper ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2018, 09:48:28 PM »

Perhaps a condom? Apparently they are pretty tough compared to ballonns.

Pete

Balloons are cheaper ;D ;D ;D
I wouldn't know....long time since I bought either LOL

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Re: Spraying pieces
« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2018, 05:19:02 AM »
Great idea Derek. Must give that a try.

All the best

Ed