Do you use or have used a HVLP Turbine Sprayer? If so what are the advantages over a compressor using a HVLP gun? I'd like to spray latex enamels and maybe even bedliner. Am I looking at the wrong thing? Thanks!
Posted by Bill Lynch (Member # 3815) on :
I have one I got from Sherwin Williams, I forget the details but it's a quality unit, cost about $850. To me the advatage is no compressor, just a neat little machine, it does a nice job. As for spraying latex, it's supposed to do it, but I haven't, and definately haven't tried bedliner.
Posted by Chris Lovelady (Member # 2540) on :
Tim, these tubine sprayers are best used in my opinion for lacqures and oil based paints. they say you can use laytex but much more expensive.
we use an airless house paint sprayer. the Grayco 395 you can pick it up for about 800$-900$. cheack sherwinn williams they useally have them on sale and much tech support.
we spray all our MDO panels out with this. tip:get a 10ft. hose not the 50-100ft you will use much less paint.
P.S. these will not spay bed liner..need a special sprayer for that
good luck
chris
[ July 19, 2006, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Chris Lovelady ]
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
Thanks. I'm clueless about sprayers. I know there is a one part bedliner that you're supposed to be able to spray. I guess I'll contact the supplier. I've been looking for a good foam hardcoat that is a one part that doesn't need special equipment to spray. Also, looking for a general all purpose way to spray oilbased enamels as well as latex.
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
I currently have two and have worn out two others over 20 years.
Hundreds of thousands of square feet of murals using acrylic paint. They blow a pattern from 1/4" wide to 6 inches wide just with trigger control and distance to the surface. Great for enamels and I even put screen inks thru them. Virtually no overspray.
They retail in Australia for around $150 although I saw one on E-bay for $51 at present.
Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :
Hi Jon, I had a Wagner sprayer like that, and killed it after 2 big jobs (spraying around 40 24 in. pvc letters with latex, and spraying 10 6x6x10 ft steel posts with oilbased enamel). Does that sprayer spray latex without having to thin it? Thanks.
Posted by Jon Butterworth (Member # 227) on :
Tim, the last big mural job I did involved over 10,000 sq feet of spraying when you count the background, detail shading and two clear coats all in acrylics.
We used two "Easy Sprayers" ... one "old" one and a brand new one that RT took the hand piece and hose back to USA afterwards. The motor is 240 volt and he said it would be easier to rig a vaccuum cleaner blower to it back home.
Apart from occasional blockages, especially in the heat, both are still working fine. It does help to keep the handpiece immersed in a bucket of water between uses.
We did dilute the acrylic paint about 20%, although the clear was thin enough to go straight on. I don't use the "flowmeter" cups that come with it but judge the viscosity by eye.
I'm suprised yours burnt out so quick. The only problems (and final demise) of any of mine has been the wear on the gland around the needle.
The handpieces used to cast in metal. Now they are plastic and I have had problems with thinners attacking it, especially using inks. The plastic threads holding the pot seem to be the worse effected.
The are two holes each side of the syphon tube in the cap. If these are not keep clear the pot will pressurise and leak ... usually all over your work!
But at the price and volume spraying I have done they are an excellent piece of equipment.
PS: I do use a regular Iawata spray unit too for high quality vehicle work. Posted by Doug Bernhardt (Member # 1568) on :
I ave a good HVLP turbine unit "Titan" and was about $2000 when I got it 5 or 10 years ago. Has been a good machine BUT if I were to do it again I would go to a big compressor and a quality (Binks maybe) gun. The real benefit to the turbine is portability as I see it...not much else and the guys I know using HVLP like the compressor models. They do need more UMMFF than a stadard gun though.
Posted by Doug Bernhardt (Member # 1568) on :
I have a good HVLP turbine unit "Titan" and was about $2000 when I got it 5 or 10 years ago. Has been a good machine BUT if I were to do it again I would go to a big compressor and a quality (Binks maybe) gun. The real benefit to the turbine is portability as I see it...not much else.The guys I know using HVLP like the compressor models. They do need more UMMFF than a standard gun though.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I may be wrong about this because I've only used the turbine type once, and saw a demo at a show, but from what I remember about the turbine unit compared to my HVLP gun running off of a standard compressor, I thought the turbine unit had even less overspray than a turbine. If overspray from a standard gun is a 10, and a turbine is a 1, I'd rate the compressor driven HVLP about a 3 or 4.
Posted by Rick Sacks (Member # 379) on :
I've never used the turbine set up, but I thought they also have a temperature setting so they blow the paint out warmed so it sets up quicker.
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on :
I don't know about a temperature setting but I do know the turbine heats up the air so it does come out warm.
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