Why post of you don't want to know- El CHEAPO?

The point is we may have a set plan to prep and paint something, but there may be something we hadn't thought of in our plan that the wisdom of someone else in the forum can point out.

Perhaps Bill Grady was just wanting to get some of us stirred up and using our keyboards. I'd like him to let us know in 3 or 4 years how things went with his plan

Now see.. when i read that message.. I had a whole different take on it entirely.

The way i read it.. thee guy already had his 'economy' spray paint hardware.. a cheaper gun, and perhaps a cheaper air compressor.. He had also chosen economy paint. He asked for information for other variables, but not those.. he defined in his question, that those were 'fixed' values, and then wanted some people to fill in the rest of the blanks. I take it the reason he worded his question that was was this: There are quite a few profesional painters here... The pro's, and the serious hobbiest, have expensive paint gear, and use expensive paint. This guy said he's going to use 25$ a gallon paint.. not 200$ a gallon paint.. I fail to see why peopl ehave a problem with that.. he's painting his tractor.. not yours... if he wants to do it with flat latex wall paint.. so be it.. it's his tractor. Same with the hardware...

Considering I use the same 9$ chinese gun he probably uses, and also, 8 of my tractors have that 25$ a gallon paint on them.. I thought his questions were ok... Non of my tractors are on display at museums.. nor do I expect they will be in my lifetime anyway..thus for working clothes, or just something to keep the elements of fthem.. I'm happy with the cheap paint and the cheap gun that put the cheap paint down... etc

That's my take anyway...

Soundguy

That's my take anyway. Though I'm satisfied with my paint jobs, i don't consider myself any better than a 'hack' paint jobber... Can't hold a candle to the pro and serious hobby painters here. Fortunately, the average 'economy' paint job i turn out is still 2x and 3x better than a rattlecan job, or a brush / roller job that you see at alot of shows... Paint materials aside... the spraygun is really a decent way to paint.. event he cheap 9$ guns... soooo much better that the spraybombs...

Soundguy

All answers to questions wind up being opinions but I think yours is an easy one. I am not a fan of gravity feed guns (or even suction guns for that matter). However, they are the easiest to clean, no question, and I don't think there can be many disagreements on that. But you never know :). There can be other reasons to dislike them such as: 1) can't set 'em down w/o buying or making a special holding device, 2) having the paint weight above your wrist rather than below and 3) not having the cup cap on tight, if it's a friction cap, can result in the dumping of the entire contents all over yourself and the part your trying to paint (bad personal experience). But cleaning is not one of them. They clearly excel at that. I'll also offer an unsolicited opinion: If you do a lot of farm equipment painting requiring a lot of out-of-position work and spray significant amounts in a single setting (say a quart or more), you might want to consider a pressure feed, remote cup arrangement - my favorite. But that is harder to clean (not significantly more so than a suction or bottom feed gun though) and is unrealistic to use for smaller individual parts done at different times.

Rod