why not spray cans?
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From: shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net
[mailto:shop-talk-owner@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Mike Rambour
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 1:46 PM
To: shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Painting small parts
How does one go about painting a zillion small parts that go on a car ?
I have finally glass beaded enough parts on my car to paint them and I
spent yesterday painting them with my HVLP gun and getting paint
everywhere. I did things like leaf springs and shackles and other
suspension parts. I kept thinking there has to be a better way, the HVLP
gun puts out way too much paint to be efficient on small parts. I was
thinking some of these parts would be perfect for a airbrush, but it would
take a week to do them all.
Years ago, I had what i think was called a Jamb gun, effectively a small
paint gun with a small cup and smaller nozzle but the 2 guns I looked at
last week at had small cups but still the same nozzles for car painting and
would have given me the same problem. The gun I have was perfect for the
big parts like the frame.
So how do you do it, airbrush and take forever or big gun and waste
paint and get runs ? Runs are ok once I get passed the wasting paint part
since I am restoring this thing to drive and not show, I am just painting
for protection not cosmetics.
mike
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Mike Rambour ( ) ( )
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