45 years ago, when I lived in a very wet cimate in the North Cascades, I used to heat my lacquer before spraying. Simply kept a pot of water on the wood stove, took it off, and set my gun and cup in the water. Worked pretty good in helping me to spray in the rain. Also allowed me to spray coats with more solids, hence, less work. Needed very little thinner or retarder.The last 30 years or so in Hawaii I have alsways been able to wait out a couple of wet days until spray friendly weather came along. Now comes climate change. It's REAL you know! It's getting wetter here, day by day. I never really had any measured approach to using heated lacquer. In those days, most of us just stuck our fingers in the lacquor to test the temp. Pleasantly warm, but not hot, was the target heat range.Unfortunately, today we use gravity fed guns, which complicates the process and involves a lot more transferring of lacquer between containers. However, it looks more and more like I need to try to go back to heating my lacquer if I want to have any kind of relatively constant production. I'm not in a position where I can make a humidity controlled spray booth. I do heat my instruments during the spray sessions and do pump dehumidified air into the booth and that helps. There is also retarder available too, but retarder can have many issues if it is not perfectly controlled. So, anyone heating their lacquer out there? Thanks, Bob
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