deema
Established Member
I’ve been looking at spray guns since my compressor in the Fuji Q4 packed up and is presently on the ‘mend it bench’. I’m getting very confused. There appears to be four types of gun. Normal high pressure spraying, HVLP, MVLP and LVLP. There seems to be either guns that run off compressors, or HVLP systems like the Fuji / Greco. What I can’t get my head around is that it appears that a standard HP gun can actually be made into any of the variants by simply changing the Cap. The only difference appears to be the amount of pressure you set for the gun and the Cap which has different fan hole sizes.
I’m potentially looking for a backup system to my Fuji / a new primary system and have the other as a backup. From my reading they all appear to be able to spray just about anything and the main difference being paint transfer rates.
Like Wallace (but no where near his standard) I like refurbishing old bits if iron and spray 1K machine enamel. I also spray high build up undercoat as well as the usual water and oil based paints for my wood work.
If anyone could demystify what the various systems real benefits and cons are I’d really appreciate it. I want to spend the money and get the absolutely right system.
The FUJI has been great, it’s done everything I’ve wanted. However, (it’s probably me) I’ve had issues on occasions spraying all of the paints, sometimes it’s been seals that have needed changing and sometimes i can’t identify any issue.
I’m potentially looking for a backup system to my Fuji / a new primary system and have the other as a backup. From my reading they all appear to be able to spray just about anything and the main difference being paint transfer rates.
Like Wallace (but no where near his standard) I like refurbishing old bits if iron and spray 1K machine enamel. I also spray high build up undercoat as well as the usual water and oil based paints for my wood work.
If anyone could demystify what the various systems real benefits and cons are I’d really appreciate it. I want to spend the money and get the absolutely right system.
The FUJI has been great, it’s done everything I’ve wanted. However, (it’s probably me) I’ve had issues on occasions spraying all of the paints, sometimes it’s been seals that have needed changing and sometimes i can’t identify any issue.