Vent: seeing a lot of shops skip the final tack cloth wipe before primer

I've been in three different shops around Cleveland this month, and each time I saw a painter skip the tack cloth step right before spraying primer. They just blew the panel off with air and went for it. I know it seems small, but I've had two jobs come back in the last year with fisheyes that traced right back to dust the air gun just moved around. My rule is to always do a final wipe with a fresh tack rag, even on a clean panel. It adds maybe 30 seconds. Has anyone else made this a hard rule in their prep process?

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ryan_black16h ago

My buddy's shop in Akron had the same issue last spring.

jake_patel2h ago

Yeah, that spring humidity messes with a lot of shops around here.

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