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So the idea is...what about using a $2 plastic spray bottle, like those you can buy at Home Depot (similar to what Windex comes in) to apply the paint? I would think the spay would be localized enough that it wouldn't kick up enough dust to by like really spraying, but should apply the paint in small enough particles that if you thin it it should self-level fairly well an merge into a uniform coat. You would have to set it to the widest spray pattern so it was more like mist than a stream of paint.

Is this idea even worth testing?



The trick will be to find 'the right' spritzer bottle. Each type of hand pump spritzer is designed for the viscosity of the fluid it is trying to vaporize.

Windex bottles might not work too well, because the fluid being spritz'd is extremely thin. So you need to find a spritzer bottle that was designed to spritz a heavier fluid.

It might take a bit of shopping around to try to land on 'the right' spritzer to pump out and vaporize thinned paint.

One of the chaps here used one of those self-contained pumpers ( where you slap a C02 cartridge or a can of compressed air on to the sprayer bottle ) They found that it tended to clog up in rather short order.

But the hand pumped type spritzer might be able to do it. The most expensive hand type pumper would be one of those big pumpers that you put insecticide into for spraying your lawn. You pump the handle to propel it out the flexible hose.

But there must be something cheaper out there that can generate enough pressure to spritz the thinned paint out of it...

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