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CNKS
03-26-2005 20:39:17
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Re: Need Recommendation on HVLP System in reply to Frank Stalfire, 03-26-2005 20:20:23
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I guess I don't understand that -- I use HVLP, I haven't had much experience, and the guns work very well -- I tried a conventional gun several years ago, didn't have a clue as to what I was doing and made the worlds biggest mess. Scared me away from painting for a long time. I now have a Sharpe Platinum topcoat gun, and a Sharpe Cobalt primer gun, plus two touchup guns, one Sharpe and one import, both work well. However, I lined my ducks up first and got a lot of advice before I did anything. Perhaps the early guns you refer to had problems. As to air, they generally do use more than conventional, I made sure I had a large enough compressor, the Platinum does not use a lot of air, compared to the Cobalt, unfortunantely Sharpe replaced it with one with higher air consumption. I really think that you and Rod(NH) are used to conventional guns, and that HVLP requires a different technique, mainly that you hold the gun closer to the surface and move slower, hard to get used to, thus I don't blame you for preferring conventional. When I started, I had no technique (still isn't the best, because I don't paint much), so I learned HVLP.
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