Easypoxy Painting

[Realgun]

I found this in a search on google. It is a primer on Roll and Tip and really how to do it.<br /> Roll and tip

 

[Mark42]

Re: Easypoxy Painting

Can these types of paint be sprayed with the the typical homeower airless paint sprayer? Anyone ever try it? <br /><br />Have been thinking about using the airless sprayer to do my hull.<br /><br />Mark

 

[gewf631]

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I wouldn't even attempt to use an airless sprayer. In my experience, you'd end up wasting more paint than you'd actually apply, and at $70/gallon, that's not a chance I'm willing to take.

 

[Mark42]

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Ed, Why do you say paint will be wasted with an airless sprayer? I thought the whole point of those sprayers is that the paint is sprayed and not a cloud of paint vapor that can blow around.<br /><br />Am I misunderstanding something?<br /><br />Mark.

 

[flashback]

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Mark 42, I think you mean an HVLP sprayer, not an airless.... An airless is like what they use to paint houses, and it takes practically a quart of paint just to prime the system and fill the pressure hose. course if you get 5 gals of paint I suppose you could do it......

 

[Mark42]

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Ah-ha! Now I see where you're coming from. I was thinking about the hand held airless sprayers that take a quart cup right on the bottom like an air sprayer does. They are rather high pressure, and can inject paint right under your skin if you put your finger over the paint hole. They sound like hair clippers when you pull the trigger. (BUZZZZZZ!) Used one for painting iron furniture once, and it came out real nice. <br /><br />What does HVLP stand for?<br /><br />Mark

 

[gewf631]

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H - High<br /> V - Volume<br /> L - Low<br /> P - Pressure

 

[Winger Ed.]

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What does HVLP stand for? [/QB]

Its the new generation air hose type powered paint guns.<br /><br />It means High Volume, low Pressure. They are about twice as efficient as the old style siphon guns. The old guns needed to creat a vaccume in front of the air cap/nozzle to lift and suck the paint up from the cup underneath it.<br /><br />The new ones either put pressure into the paint pot to force the paint up to the tip, or have the paint cup on top of the gun so it gravity feeds down to the nozzle. This requires much, much less air pressure to opperate then the old style. <br /><br />If you watch someone use the HVLP type paint gun, you won't see the huge overspray cloud like you used to.<br /><br />The concept really isn't new. It was how they'd paint big stuff in years past also. If you ever see a picture of someone holding a paint gun and carrying a remote tank that held from 2 quarts to 2 gallons in their free hand, it was a pressure pot and was the same as the new small 1 quart HVLP guns.<br /><br />With the new generation air pollution regs. commercial shops are now required to use HVLP, and the manufactureres have just made them smaller for the new market place demands. <br /><br />For a auto body shop- using 1/2 as much paint on a car or whatever, paint that can cost over $100 a quart (wholesale), and clears that cost over $140 a gallon and require $80 a quart catalyst,, they've sort of phased out the old siphon guns anyway without the new laws requiring them.

 

[self taut]

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hey mark are you thinking about one of those wagner power painters?the way you describe it it does.had one of those things. in the local land fill now wast of money in my openion.