Thread: Low Cost HVLP Paint Gun Advise

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Got it. Thanks guys. I have painted several cars. I have been lucky, and only had a couple of runs so far. I have definitely picked up a few good tips from reading this thread.

The starting line guns are not worth buying. Even the finish line that I have is marginal for final paint.

Really, surprised.

buy a quality gun, do your job , sell it and get most of your money back . or you can buy a cheap gun and spend weeks correcting what it screws up .

I'll screw up huh,....lol

I hate to go cheap, as you can get what you pay for. Just with I could find a great product for a lower price.

Your going to paint an engine-Sperex VHT spray cans

the point is cheap guns tend to peel up the paint which causes you to lay more on which just makes it worse.
i use a cheap gun for poly and epoxy. vaper 2.0 . vaper is an ok cheap gun . less than a 100 bucks and you can get a smaller one . northerntools.

Ok, I have a neighbor across the street that wil let me park my Cobra in his garage.
Please help me with a gun and dryer now. I will not,....be painting full sized cars, just my engine, bell, tranny and other small products at home.

I still don't know about a dryer ? High quality is very expensive, and takes money away the build budget.
I can still barrow a friends gun. I want to have my own, but I could put that money towards a better dryer.


If,....I bought a gun, how about this Iwata.

Iwata IWA9233 Spray Gun (AZ3HV2-20GC HVLP with 2.0 Nozzle)

$130

https://www.amazon.com/Iwata-IWA9233...ustomerReviews

Nice gun, to big a nozzle though, a 2.0 is for heavier bodied primers, shoot for a 1.4 tip for urethane base and clear, if you are just shooting a engine, throw 50-100 ft of air hose outsde run a length back inside and run a cheap water trap inside then a last chance filter in the gun, you will be fine, that section will give the air a chance to cool down and condensation will then separate upon the air getting a chance to cool down with the long run. Save your money on a dryer till you paint a whole car and take the wife out to dinner, if that's all your spraying you'll be fine

if all your painting is an engine just get a cheap vaper 1.4 for less than 50 bucks.

Cheap vapor ?
Ok, found some. Never heard of them.

I haven't yet priced what the wax & greese cleaner, reducer, epoxy primer, reducer, mixing containers, filter/strainer and the topcoat color etc.

Verse's what everything needed for spray can system would cost ?

Plus the cost of everything needed for a 4ml plastic roll, wood or pvc structure paint booth ?

Kevin, welcome to the part of hot rodding we all eventually come too, either suffer and buy the tools, which now you have and MUST build other vehicles to justify having such tools or farm it out and suffer paying somebodies labor bill, I think most of us on here have chose the first choice, Please don't ask our wives if we made the right choice. At this point in our lives we are just lucky that there is not a hot rodders wife or hot rodders girlfriends forum where they all could collaborate against us and find we are share similar possibly undesireable traits (to them at least) My advice is, do whatever you consider FUN!

Lol,....that's what hobbies and toys are all about, but this time, our budjet is tight after all my health bills, medications etc.
We generaly don't make money on hobbies or especially with our toyz. We raced dirt winged sprint cars for years, if anyone expects to make money with weekend racing, run, run away and find cash somewhere else.

If times were better today like 10 (+) years ago, no problem, but now we need to save dimes. After almost dying twice with "Septic Blood" infection, my "MedFlight" jet flight to the Mayo Clinic was $17,000. With my 26 day in their hospital clinic was $62,000 (if I'm remembering now) and my 13 twice per day medications for nearly all my organs are very expensive per month. The great work insurance my wife had for 25 years, the company sold out to a money crazed family, they dropped it and replaced with Blue Cross & Shield.

Anyway, that's why we needto be careful with money. $200 now is a lot of money. My health care and meds, along with loosing $10,000 to my engine builder 10 years ago, we're just now getting back into a fairly,.....normal life. Trying to gain back my "spirit of life" partly, with getting the Cobra back driving and enjoying again !

(No matter how hard you have it, never give up in life)

I'm glad to hear you're on the up side of the battle there. I have Blue cross & shield and can definitely agree that $200 is a lot of money for sure. Losing any money sucks. Been there and have dip sticks that owe me still. Some people.