Ryan, what is the brand and model of the gun you like?
On 3/10/00, BORDER,RYAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1 wrote:
>I have 2 hvlp guns. A gravity feed gun, and a larger gun with an external
>reservoir connected by hoses.
>
>The gun with the external reservoir is good for primer, but I've given up on
>it for any kind of finish work. There are two problems, both of which have
>to do with cleaning. The first is simply that it's very hard to get the
>tank, hoses, and gun all completely clean. There's nothing more frustrating
>that finishing up a nice bright yellow top-coat, having it almost perfect,
>and then have a blob of dark grey primer come loose and splatter onto the
>surface. Secondly, there is a significant volume of paint in those hoses,
>and everytime you clean the gun you waste it. It's OK with cheap primer,
>but not with expensive color/clear coats. When painting small parts, I
>found I easily wasted half of the paint because of this- sort of defeating
>one of the supposed advantages of an HVLP gun. I suppose this wouldn't be
>an issue if you were painting several gun-fulls of a single paint.
>
>The other gun I have is a finish-line, gravity feed gun. It has the plastic
>paint bags that go in the cup, which at first seemed kind of hokey to me;
>but now I really appreciate as they make cleanup so much easier. Unlike my
>other gun, I find I'm able to get almost %100 of my paint onto the surface.
>I like this gun a lot.
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