[Shop-talk] painting with hvlp ??

[Roland Wilhelmy]

Oh, about $300. :-)

A HVLP gun reduces the air pressure within the body of the gun to a
lower level, producing less overspray.  This also means that the
mechanism to feed the paint to the nozzle has to be different.  That's
about it, as far as I know.  There may be differences in the orifice
design to get the diffusion desired with lower pressure.  The
differences would mostly be subtle.

HF vs high end?  quality control, ease of maintenance, durability,
pattern uniformity perhaps.  At least I would hope so, Doug.

-Roland

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:48:04 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

::Recently I took my HF Thirty-Nine Dollar Classic and
::an old siphon-feed non-HVLP gun, and tried to figure
::out what the difference really was.  The size and
::pattern of the air holes looked pretty similar.  Also,
::both guns need about the same air pressure: 30 to 40
::pounds.
::
::Do you know how different a high-end HVLP gun would be
::from the the two I described?
::
::Doug
::
::--- Roland Wilhelmy <rwil at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
::
::> I have a turbine type HVLP setup and a Sharpe
::> Platinum HVLP gun that
::> runs off of an ordinary compressed air supply.