Just tried the HF HVLP sprayer.. UPDATED

[Burgess17]

[joey1320]

I painted my '56 project with the HF HVLP kit and I'm happy with the results. I'll post pics later on tonight if interested.

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[farnhamassoc]

Sprayed the basecoat with the Harbor freight Spectrum Much better gun than the regular cheap one.


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[pwmcguire]

[DurocShark]

[nemobuscaptain]

[LEN-ABS]

[Mike Fisher]

I've had good results spraying BC/CC lacquer with a siphon gun.
No serious orange peel, so only needed a light machine buffing after a couple weeks.
You'll wait a year & nitpick what the painter does, so you might as well do it Right yourself.
Use a spot sand blaster to blast only the rust/bare metal before phosphoric acid rust killer & primer.
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[72VWSB]

I have a hard time justifying buying a good turbine sprayer when I have a good compressor and can get a pretty good spray gun. I got a quote of 3000.00 from a auto body place to do the car, taken down to bare metal and doing inside doors, hood, etc... Seems like a better deal now...

[DurocShark]

That's about the going rate for a good quality one. The closest thing to the one in my OP any more is this: https://www.harborfreight.com/high-volume-low-pressure-spray-gun-kit-44677.html

But I have a TP Tools 2 stage now: https://www.tptools.com/Showtime-90-HVLP-Turbine-U...?b=d*51867

Oddly I still haven't sprayed a whole car with it, but I've sprayed lots of lacquer and painted tin and stuff.
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[72VWSB]

Ok, I would like to paint my vehicle with a turbine sprayer but, where do I get one nowadays that doesn't cost 400 to $500.00?

[bomberbob]

I have not painted my car with the cheap HF turbine gun yet, but I will.
We replaced our steel front door on the house with a fiberglass one. The handyman who did the work said he would not paint it because they never come out right, and said take it to a place that paints cars. I bought the cheap turbine, did it myself. Came out fine. Started out with paint a little too thick, but I adjusted that. Will paint the car after all the rust is cut out and new metal welded in, in the spring. I am sold on the gun.
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[Phat73]

Horse Hockey. Most of the posts on this thread are horse hockey. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using HF a cheapy gun. Is it as good as a Sata? Not even close. Will it do good job? Damn right it will.

A cheapy HF is certainly scraping the bottom of the barrel , a 150$ ProTec will work much better (which is what I use for base/clear) but a HF will do the job too.

It's like welders: in the right hands a 90$ HF flux core will do miracles, in the wrong hands a 2000 TIG machine will make a mess.

Buy a cheap gun and practice. Talk to the guys at the paint shop. The worst that can happen is you'll have sand out learning experience and do it again.

There are SO many other things to consider in a paint job the gun is pretty much the least of your worries. Having the courage to try is the key.

Fail early, fail often, fail forward.

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[67ctbug]

I bought the purple HVLP gun and it worked out pretty good. Just wanted to have it for when I paint the fenders (and maybe the whole car)... I made a review of it for my YouTube channel too.


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[DurocShark]

[Mike Fisher]

Start at the Beginning of this thread & learn what DurocShark etc have been discussing for 10 years. He says the HVLP turbine are cheapest & easiest to use.
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[Dubskii]

Painting noob...Would a 3 gallon, 100psi pancake air compressor be able to sufficiently power the Harbor Frieght hvlp spray gun? I am looking to paint some replacement panels and just blend some paint.
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[DurocShark]

Time for the annual check in!

I still have a perfectly good $30 HF HVLP turbine that I've been using for all kinds of stuff. I had hoped to paint the 64 with it, but SharkDaughter has other ideas...

We still have a few months before we get to that point, but at the moment she's settled on Kirker Pale Agave Metallic. And she wants white sides (we'll figure out which color white later). With a metallic I'm going to do two stage as well. http://www.autobodytoolmart.com/kirker-black-diamond-lvb-pale-agave-metallic-lvb-31264-p-17511.aspx

I've used Kirker single stage in the past, but not their two stage. However I've never sprayed metallics. The lack of different tips for this HF rig makes me realize I should invest in a better spray system.

So now I was looking at a Fuji kit, but a guy on another forum suggested I look at the Showtime 90: http://www.tptools.com/Showtime-90-HVLP-Turbine-Un...l?b=d*8049

Anyway, should be fun!
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[Zebedee]

Topcoat comes out OK too.

Managed to paint it with no orange peel too.
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