Full Version: Opening Aerosal Can
From: JHayes55 [#15]
11 Aug 2006
To: ALL
After I had a can blow up in the cabinet one weekend and over everything in there I never bought another one! Concentrate and Preval sprayer kit works very well. Since I do a lot of stainless for a couple large shops I invested in a small air brush compressor and the cheapest air brush going.
Good quality airbrushes are too fine for the CerMark to spray well - cheap ones have larger openings and can handle the larger particles that are in CerMark. IMHO - best solution to the Cermark problem.
I still keep Preval sprayer with CerMark in the jar for small jobs when I do not want to set up the compressor.
From: Carl (CSEWELL) [#16]
11 Aug 2006
To: laserman (MIKEMAC) [#14] 24 Aug 2006
Are you saying (suggesting?) that over-shaking caused the can to puncture (explode)? Maybe the ball put a hole in the can? I find that extremely hard to believe.
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#17]
11 Aug 2006
To: Carl (CSEWELL) [#16] 11 Aug 2006
Carl,
If the puncturing ball were an issue, I'm sure we would have heard about a recall long before now.
I did do the long term shake, which produced a little more spray than I have been getting, but still glogged within seconds.
I pryed the top of the can away until I heard a hiss. The can was hissing away in my photo-resist washout basin when I left, so in the morning I should have a pressureless can.
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EDITED: 7 Aug 2010 by DATAKES
From: JHayes55 [#18]
12 Aug 2006
To: Carl (CSEWELL) [#16] 12 Aug 2006
Carl
The old style can would become dented where the ball struck the inside of the can - the can became thinner and thinner evertime you shook it up. The can I had explode let go where the ball had made dents in the can. I have never used the "new improved can" and have no experience with it. They stopped making the old can for a while before the new one came out - I would guess that might have been part of the reason.
EDITED: 12 Aug 2006 by JHAYES55
From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#19]
12 Aug 2006
To: Carl (CSEWELL) [#16] 12 Aug 2006
Well, it worked. I had a pressureless can in the morning, pulled the rest of the top off, and now have some useable material.
I appreciate all of the approaches that everyone shared in this thread. It is amazing what one can learn from the diverse experience and practices of others. I guess that what makes this place so valuable to me.
From: laserman (MIKEMAC) [#20]
24 Aug 2006
To: Carl (CSEWELL) [#16] 24 Aug 2006
Carl,
Sorry for the delay in responding I was out of the office for the last ten day's.
Joe hit it right on the ball dented the older cans and that is where the puncture happened. They used a larger ball and thinner cans in the older model cans and that could have been the reason for the change.