Jon @ Homer

Fence Painted

Today in 95+ heat I painted the rest of the stockade fence. I started off with a roller but painting the lattice was going to be tough either with a roller or a brush so I decided to get the old Wagner power painter out. I started with 2.2 gallons of paint in a 5 gallon bucket and a roller keeping it mixed with a cordless drill.

I studied the Wagner manual (yes I read the directions - last time I used the power painter it ended up just squirting a stream out ie not working). In the manual it showed a description of bad popit (atomizer valves) and the one I had look like the worst type of a bad valve. Bad valves cause squirting rather than spraying. I know I have some popet valves that I bought on clearance but for the life of me I couldn't find them. So off to the hardware store - in AC! Well first old Homer Hardware didn't have them, but I did pickup a Blenheim's HOT. Next the new Do It Best in St Joe had a sidewalk sale and I found some things but no popets plus a thunderstorm was threatening. Still I was determined to find those valves - Farm & Fleet is only 12 miles via interstate. It started to rain cat's and dogs once I got on I74 - I still had 2 gallons of stain sitting in an open bucket but I figured I couldn't beat the rain back so if it rained it would rain in my paint.

Farm & Fleet had atomizer valves but not Wagner power painters - so off to Menards/Lowes/HD. So I made a 46 mile trip for the damn little valves but I didn't find them once I got home. Also, the rain never made it to Homer - shoot it didn't make it to the east side of St Joe.

Anyways back to painting - once I got the sprayer running the job went much faster and I was able to get the lattice top and the "gallows" painted in short order.

posted by Jon at Homer @ 10:10 PM