<p dir="ltr">Use epoxy primer.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 21, 2016 3:55 PM, <<a href="mailto:terryrs@comcast.net">terryrs@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Two or three years ago, I picked up a sandblaster from Harbor Freight. Last spring, I found some glass bead, coarse and medium, on sale because the bags had been opened.<br>
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Filled the tank with coarse, cranked up the air pressure, and started blasting. Nothing happened.<br>
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Reminded me of a girl I dated rather too hopefully in high school. Same as here, issue turned out to be me.<br>
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Oh well.<br>
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Finally figured out after bead refused to come out the hose, that the bead was damp and clogging in the hose. Comes from buying open bags, I suspect, then leaving them most of a year in the garage.<br>
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Went to Tractor Supply Co., bought bags of dry black beauty, and LO! Caked up paint evaporated at a touch of the nozzle. Amazing and fast. What had seemed mysterious and complicated yesterday, piece of cake today.<br>
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Wonder how long I can remember how I did it....<br>
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Will paint next weekend when I'm not too tired and likely sloppy.<br>
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Terry Smith, '59 TR3A<br>
New Hampshire<br>
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