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WebCool Tools Being Reviewed This Weekend
A couple of products being reviewed this weekend have me excited. For starters I will be taking a look at a new HID Flashlight from Stanley. I charged it last night, and my initial impression is that this light is a beast. I will have more on this later, but I can’t wait to get this and the other lights up to the lake this weekend where I have open area and lots of wildlife to see.
The other product is a tool we have been waiting to demo for quite some time, a thermal imager model TI-32 from Fluke. It has just arrived and has to be back to the Manufacturer on Monday. I have had requests to check out wiring, wet spots behind walls and believe it or not, my 10 year old daughter wants me to venture into the dusty, musty old attic and look for ghosts. She saw the ghost hunters on TV last week use a similar model to show spectral IR Images. I was laughing when I watched the episode. I don’t know much about using Thermographers, but I do know attributing cold spots on ceilings in very old houses to being ghosts when it is very likely more a sign of poor insulation. I know it’s not as much fun as seeing ghosts, but I will convince my daughter that if we see cold spots, daddy has a special way of making ghosts disappear and it’s called R-13 a very secret weapon developed by large international companies. My secret weapon is pink, because ghosts hate pink, especially in attics and crawl spaces.
I also will be finishing up my test of Milwaukee’s Paint Sprayer System. Already I have come to the conclusion attaching a gallon of paint to an airless sprayer system, is akin to pouring a pint of gas into a 1971 Chrysler New Yorker. It is not going to get you very far, but when you, you go in style.
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I’m interested in what yo think of the Milwaukee’s Paint Sprayer System
Rob,
I love the Milwaukee Paint system. I finished my review project this weekend using it and it’s the perfect size for me. I found an advantage to the Milwaukee I don’t have with my other HVLP systems. I was doing above head spraying on some areas that needed fine control. I tried using my regular HVLP system and I kept picking up air when the paint would shift away from the pick up tube. Switching over to the Milwaukee that has pressurized paint feed from a remote bucket, the paint flowed without the spitting issues created by getting air in the mixture. I shot five gallons of exterior paint in 45 minutes. Most of the time was spent moving drop cloths and going back over areas I shot last week that needed a second coat. Due to the size of some of the projects I tackle, the Milwaukee paint system allows me to get the painting done quick. The benefit of this is I have more time for prep work, which is by far the area most DIY-ers neglect in painting.
Clean, prep and prime are the foundations of any paint job as you already know. Most homeowners want to skip these steps and they end up with a sub par paint job. I think the system is very similar to some of the other systems I have seen in stores, but the Milwaukee is less expensive than the Graco AIrless units I priced last week. Throw in the added advantage of the HVLP feature and it really is a cost efficient way to have a machine that does both finish and large area painting. One disadvantage is the Milwaukee has less controls than an HVLP cup sprayer. The lack of the round spray pattern on the Milwaukee may or may not be an issue. It was less of an issue than I thought it would be as I ended up changing my technique to obtain the results I wanted. I dialed down the pressure and flipped the horizontal-vertical to match the pattern I wanted to cover.
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