Advice on bodywork for an FC?

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Originally Posted by JerryLH3

I'm curious what you mean by full HVLP and real HVLP gun. Could you elaborate further? Are you suggesting there's specific guns/brands to stay away from or what?

Thanks.

high volume low pressure.

There's HVLP, compliant, and non-hvlp(old tech).

The point of it is higher transfer effciency, (ie. less overspray!) finer atomization......but they consume alot of air. They work excellent, although honestly if you've not sprayed with each type you wouldn't know the difference you'd just think thats how it is.

But a compliant (decent transfer effciency) or old style gun (shitty transfer effciency), although it will consume less air, will be spraying at a higher pressure and blasting tonnes of paint into the air - and also getting some on the panel

Full HVLP setup meaning you don't simply buy an HVLP gun and go nuts. You need larger diameter lines and fittings to feed the higher volume into the gun. Also, your compressor *ideally* should be over 20CFM on an HVLP setup.

Brands....meh not so much. They all spray a little different I find its better to fit the gun to your style then the other way around. I've been a devilbiss fan for a while. The anesta Iwata gun's i've been using lately are nice....I do like SATA alot, but hate having to get parts for them, and my style doesn't fit they're pattern as you generally have to be much closer to the panel then I'm comfortable with to get proper transfer.

Going with a non china gun - you go with what fits your style. Going with a cheap thing, well who knows. Chances are two of the same cheapies would spray differently then each other.