convential spray gun adjustment

Best check to be certain which model you have.

They describe it as Sharpe Finex Conventional Spray Gun. Then under the features it says HVLP gun with your choice of tip size. I assumed it was a typo since he said it was a conventional gravity feed.

An 8"-10" gun distance is quite common for a conventional (non-hvlp) gun and a 6"-8" distance is common for an hvlp gun. I am more used to conventional than hvlp and when I use my hvlp gun I feel like I am too close and painting in slow motion so it's a relative experience. Normally you would have the fluid control knob almost all the way out and the pattern control wide open with the proper air pressure existing at the actual inlet to the gun. If that condition is too fast for your liking, you can try cutting the fluid flow by turning in the fluid knob. That will yield a smaller orifice for the same tip size and will cut the paint flow rate down (assuming the same inlet air pressure). You may or may not have to narrow the pattern at the same time to obtain a good full pattern with the lower paint flow. I don't know if that would also result in a lower travel speed. You'll just have to try it and see how it goes. Try it on a piece of vertical test panel and not on any final product. Devilbiss has a good gun adjustment manual that I think is pretty generic and could apply to most any other manufacturer. The same principles are involved.

Make sure you are using the correct tip size for the clear and the correct additive(s) for the temperature at the time of spraying and be sure the metal temperature is the same as the air temperature. Also make sure you follow any recommended flash time between coats that is specified on the tech data sheet for the clear.

Runs are not uncommon. It takes practice (and some luck) to avoid them and at the same time avoiding unacceptable orange peel.

Rod

I tried looking up this guns specs but it's not on Sharpe's website. I did see it for sale though and it was offered with a 1.4 tip or a 1.8 tip. Are those tips interchangeable and do you have both? If those are the only tips available than this guns 1.8 tip would be slightly larger than recommended for clear urethane by using PPG's Omni MC160 as a model. You should have a 1.5-1.7 tip for that clear and a 1.3 -1.6 tip for the MCV basecoat. If you have only the 1.4 tip, its rated for the basecoat but not the clear. If you have only the 1.8 it's a little larger than recommended for this urethane clear and larger than needed for the base coat.