Harbor Freight has an HVLP gun that uses 2.8 to 8 cfm. I used
their gun that requires 10 or 11 cfm with the Sears 5 hp compressor and it
worked great. Yes the compressor did run a lot but had no problem doing
the job.
...Art
On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 ejrussell@sprynet.com wrote:
>
> There are two types of HVLP guns.
>
> 1)Turbine powered use a High Volume Low Pressure turbine unit to supply air
>to
> your gun. An air compressor is not needed unless you want to use a pressure
>pot.
> In that case the compressed air is used only to push the paint from the pot
>to
> the gun. Large volumes of compressed air are not required.
> 2)Conversion guns "convert" compressed air (Low Volume High Pressure?) to
> simulate HVLP. Most conversion guns I've seen need the output of large air
> compressors to operate.
>
>
> <snip>
> Would HVLP guns use less air? I am planning to use HVLP guns so
> that I can paint in my garage without having to evacuate the whole
> place including two other cars.
>
> I may be off base here, but I am under the impression that with
> HVLP it would suffice to just cover everything else and the overspray
> on my walls and MG posters would be tolerable.
>
> Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
> tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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