how does the station work? did Mathews supply it for you? I've been thinking of getting one of these so we can stop using vinyl on everything when paint would be better.
I sent you a PM - call me at 309 area code, 691, then 8822
Hmm interesting. What do you guys use over there?
We got lucky and scored a mixing station left behind by an unscrouplous sign company that screwed a bunch of businesses including their landlord. The only thing that was missing was a scale but our vendor hooked us up with a scale since we'd be buying a lot of paint from them.
That must be a low VOC thing. Right now our vender has (43) gallons of Black Satin and (17) gallons of Carbon Black Satin for our mixing station.
You likely don't spray enough to have to worry about vocs. It's all compliant paint in this realm anyways. We have an air permit and don't even come close to the max permitted. Big manufacturers are the ones who really have to worry about that stuff.
Yeah, I don't know a ton about that stuff. We're using the paint that came with the mixing station, which I believe Matthews called "Nuance". All of the paint numbers start with an "N". We had to do all the paperwork and training when the EPA made their big stink about sign painting, but the paint we use was an issue. Like Notarealsignguy mentioned, it's a lot to do with volume. We're pretty low volume. If the EPA gets concerned, I think they sample a piece of your spray booth filters to see if you're putting too much crap in the air.
The VOCs are done by receipts or record keeping of how much paint you use on each job over a period of a month, at least that's what we have to do and each state will have different air rules. It has been awhile since we had an audit
Who is your vendor? Satin black and white conventional (not low VOC) have been almost non-existent for 4 months.
Denco Sales. They were bought by Tubelite last year, but so far they're still operating as Denco. They don't have a branch east of Denver, but maybe Tubelite does?