Reddit mentions of FSI (BPONG5X01) Filter Bag, X100, 5 Micron, Polypropylene Felt

I’m not going to lie, this post may scare some people off... it’s really simple I just explain in specific details... here look at My Tula results I have replicated multiple times with this process...

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5 Micron Polypropylene Filter Bag - overkill/makes paint slick

Read all this if you want good results, I go into detail, maybe too much but it is what it is.

Buy filter too, cut out circle from filter large enough to fold into a cone that you stick in your small funnel you use when pouring paint into your gun. If it won’t stay folded, paperclip/staple, the folded piece.

Make sure you have clean gloves on, and good ones... when the paint is almost done straining, squeeze the filter pushing the last bit through. To reuse filter run cheap lac thinner through filter media.

Prep Notes:
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If you are this far, I am assuming you followed my recommendations for 120-180 alum ox to prep with, you just sprayed the gun down with lac thinner or acetone and it’s hanging...

Mixing:
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This whole process will make the paint a little runny, but silky smooth - mix it at 2 parts paint, 1 part thinner, basically 70% paint, 30% thinner.
***If you get cob webs which look like spider man spraying webs from your clean gun put a little more ethanol in until it sprays smooth. Think “50:50 is max dilution, I’m at 70:30” and eyeball a 60:40 mix.

Spraying:
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Turn the pressure down on your gun to 25psi, that is set when you depress the trigger half way.

You want it to go on glossy/shiny/wet looking and even. Let first coat dry by air, don’t use a heat gun. Put subsequent coats on nice and wet enough to shine but not enough to run and you will have dead nuts the Tula look, take your time.

IF you get a run with this paint it is OK, let it dry... it will take a bit to dry dry, Go right back over run area next few passes. With a little bit of glossy misting, then a wet coat.

Do not over do the first coat, make sure your 10 inches back... the ethanol will retard dry time a lot. Be patient.

Do NOT put this project in the over, near heat, near a fast blowing fan once it’s wet. It is going to dry slow slow and that helps process smooth out the paint. If you do get it near heat, fans, whatever just repeat until it is black and shiny.

Once dry over night you can bake it/heat with heat gun.