Today was a cultural holiday at the Spirit of Sunshine Landspeed Lab, Possum Park and idiot Wonderland, the much celebrated annual "Cleaning of the Guns", not not weapons, the spray guns........ My gravity feed gun had been used to spray some chrome look enamel, trust me that stuff goes a long way and with the help of some gun wash can really make a mess of your hands. My suction feed gun had some long cured alkyd resin gloss in it.Nice. These guns were last used about eight months ago....Yeah terrible I know, unprofessional, irresponsible, just really bad workshop practice all-round.Forgive me for i have slobbed.
All I can assume is that when I last used them I was short on thinners or gun-wash even shorter on time and probably had tortured hands from prepping and painting and the very thought of getting them wet with solvents wasn't what I wanted to do before a week in the desert. Every time I have looked at the gravity gun with some evil amber colored goo leaking out of it I thought to myself, "nup, not cleaning that right now"......this weekend I'd offered to paint some furniture for a friend, so I had to clean them.......
But before I painted the chairs they needed some cleaning up, "I'll get the little speedblaster out" I thought....so, that was yesterday, my shed has been turned upside down, everything else I planned to do this weekend fell by the wayside, could I find the blaster? Nope.
The shed is a mess,no progress on the car,the chairs didn't get painted......and, I didn't find the blaster. However I did work out that there is a crack in the wire drive mechanism on my Mig, the last bottle of gas I ordered, which was supposed to be pure argon so I can weld aluminium is in fact my usual order of SupaArgon 07 which I use for steel,great.
And now the dog's pissed under my desk.......I'm actually looking forward to going to work tomorrow......