for mixing I use cheap $1 glass measuring cups. Mix it up,and use lacquer to clean up the glass cup with the gun. works like a charm and lacquer thinner doesn't effect the printed measuring graphics. I'm fairly amazed that a $1 measuring cup can have the printing hold up like it does. It's been 9 years, and none of the art is missing.

how would you risk a playfield? Everything is fixable. You use your cup on your gun over and over. If you can clean that good, why can't you clean a glass measuring cup worth a shit? in 9 years never had it be a problem.

3 hours of sanding? what the hell grit are you using? Should be using 400 grit. With a block, should take you 30 min total and then you should be ready for the next layer.

I wasn't being agressive in my statement. I just use words like shit and ass and colorful accent words. I wasn't angry or anything.

Masks don't really work, because the cartridges in them only last 6 hours or so when they are exposed to the air. To really be protected you really need a suit with air supplied to it. I did the cartridge thing at first too, and if you can smell it, your breathing it.

Was all fun and games until I passed out in the shower one morning and had a mini seizure. Then it was time to invest in real equipment. You can't half ass it when working with auto clears. If you don't have the right equipment to protect your eyes and lungs, you will kill yourself in a very short period of time. Vapors stick to anything wet like a magnet. So your eyes and lung walls, pull it in like a tractor beam on the death star.