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If you bought the sprayer at home depot, all you need is the UPC and the receipt. Here's a link to the rebate form:

[url=http://www.homedepot.com/cmc_upload/HDUS/EN_US/pc/common/pdfs/042706_072606_WagnerPaintProducts.pdf]

Just send it in before the end of the month and you should be fine.

Thanks for the tips! Second/Third coat will be going on in an hour... Then wetsanding tomorrow. I'd like to put more coats on, but I've got to use the car on Saturday. :/

-Morwan



Pardner, here's the right rebate form:

http://www.homedepot.com/cmc_upload/HDUS...oorProducts.pdf

Bought the unit last week to waterproof my folks' deck. Was in the middle of trying this roller method on my daily driver when I thought of using the Wagner on the car. The only thing is it might take a while since I'm completely stripping the car to metal. It's a 92 japanese import, and from what I've heard, finishes on cars of that era weren't that great due to environmental concerns regarding the type of paint that can be applied (don't quote me on this - this is news passed on for the nth time). Anyway, the paint is in bad shape. On top of the car's original paint, sporadic layers of spray bomb paint and a lousy MAACO paint job have been applied so I decided to strip the thing to bare metal and start from there. It took me one and a half weeks of after office time (till the sun went down) just to strip the hood to bare metal using an 18-volt cordless drill and 80-grit 3M sanding pads. Haven't yet decided to strip the car in one shot then do the roller thing or do a "strip/roll/strip/roll,etc." (ok boys, don't let your imaginations run wild ) while doing one panel at a time. Of course, the Wagner is another option.

By the way, to those who bought the Wagner, it has a simple viscosity checker which comes with it to determine whether the paint is thin enought for the HVLP spayer. Anyway, have you tried "rolling" that mixture and what are the results? I'm thinking, if it's thin enough for the sprayer, then it might be thin enough to be rolled with the least amount of problems (orange peel, etc.).

Just trying to come up with a standard or benchmark for an acceptable paint thickness.

Here's what that contraption looks like:

http://www.gleempaint.com/viscosity-cup.html

Refer to page 4 of the Wagner manual on how to use it.

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/gleempaint/control-spray.pdf