Thought I Was Done Sanding...

The plan was to touch up the primer today and prep for the top coat next week. That was until I started scanning the cockpit with bright low angle lighting and discovered a couple runs I hadn't noticed yesterday. You simply can't have enough lighting in your workshop. No matter how bright it is I'm left wanting for more. The newly discovered runs took me down a rabbit hole because now I needed to deal with those and triple check there weren't anymore in high visibility areas. I'm trying to not get too anal about areas deep in the footwell, up underneath the panel, and places that will be covered by seats, carpet or upholstery. But I have my pride. Before further sanding I needed to reconfigure my lighting to get the cockpit area brighter. So I rigged up a temporary setup with multiple articulating lights directly overhead. I also needed to deal better with the overspray. There was more then I anticipated when shooting the primer and if left a light messy dusting on everything. So I rigged up a pseudo paint booth using floor to ceiling plastic drop cloths with a fan venting out a slightly cracked garage door. This setup will hopefully keep the overspray contained and vented out and reduce dust particles on the paint. The drawback is its gets hot in there, as its cutoff from the rest of the AC air in the garage. After more sanding I repeated my cleaning process from yesterday and played with the paint gun, taking notes while shooting water at various pressures, fan sizes and paint flows. The goal being to reduce overspray and roughness. Will be back at it next week when we return from Oshkosh.