Learning to spray paint

"Charles Vincent" wrote

My only regret is that I didn't get one of the gravity fed guns, but they
were not in vogue for anything but airbrushes when I bought mine.

Yep, once you go gravity fed, you never look back. The amount of time
futzing and cursing at my gun went from 25% to 2.5% instantly.

I also got some plumbing parts and with two 90% fittings and 3 nipples, you
can make it so you can adjust the angle of the cup in relationship to the
gun, so your paint never drips out the vent, and is always feeding to the
last drop, even spraying straight down, or straight up.
--
Jim in NC

Ernest Christley wrote:

I found that if I cinched the strap up so that the bottom of the turbine
rested under my left arm and on my hip, my head going through the strap.
I could then snake the air supply hose down my right arm to the gun. I
was able to move around fairly naturally and easily in the makeshift
paint booth that way. The supply hose stayed attached to my air fairly
well that way. It's sort of the same thing you do with a gas welding
torch.

You don't have air hoses to drag around, but you do have a drop cord to
worry over; though, it is light in comparison. Lots of extra cheap cord
curled up under the project so that you're never having to drag it far
was my answer to that.


On my gun you would never carry around the turbine. It is heavy. It
will supposedly drive two guns at once. I also run an extra length of
hose just to give the air more time to cool before hitting the gun.

Charles

"Charles Vincent" wrote

On my gun you would never carry around the turbine. It is heavy. It will
supposedly drive two guns at once. I also run an extra length of hose
just to give the air more time to cool before hitting the gun.

I had read that the heat was an advantage to the HVLP process, so I assume
you find this not to be true? Why, or why not?

I would think (guess) that the paint flashing quickly would make it harder
to keep a wet line, but that is my guess, since I have not used one,
(turbine unit) I don't know...

Or could you go with a slower reducer? That brings up a different question.

Do all, or nearly all paints used have different speed reducers available to
use? I have used urethane, enamel, lacquer and latex paints. (the latex
does not count, because that was on house type stuff, and the same with
lacquer, that required no mixing)
--
Jim in NC