whos painted/sprayed, experiances etc

[djinuk]

So who on these boards has sprayed before and how did it go.

Ive always had friends with bodyshops etc so ive always had an idea but never actually painted. I picked up a small touch up gun to hook onto my 25L compressor. I was only needing to spray a inlet manifold with some high build primer, however i struggled like hell to get the balance between the gun dribbling the paint out and it not spraying enough on. It may have been the paint itself being a bit to thick for the 0.8mm needle but we will have to see.

[rs250nut]

Ive always painted and pretty much everything you could imagine, your never going to get high build to come out of a gun with a .8mm fluid tip without putting **** loads of thinners with it, then its not really high build:) Put primer on with a proper gun, get yourself a regulater and set the pressure at the gun to around 2 bar.

[djinuk]

cheers man, i thought the gun was the problem, im going to be getting hold of a devilbliss gun soon , i need to get my setup sorted.

[djinuk]

out of interest what kinda of pressure do i need and what gun to spray high build primer ?

[JRP]

read his post dude

[V Man]

You really need at leat 7CFM for a gun and about the same for an Air fed mask. For gun pressure painting a whole car the bigger the better, if it runs out of puff while your painting a long panel it will not only be annoying but also not flow properly i.e. likely to get dry spots and not be smooth.
2-3 HP would be a start ...

[djinuk]

cheers for the info dude, i dont plan to spray the full car as i dont really have the ideal area to do it, for the time being im just painting up bits like the inlet manifold and the inside of the car as such a perfect finish is not needed, aswell as highbuilding the bumper and flatting them back to lose the texture of the plastic.

[rs250nut]

cheers for the info dude, i dont plan to spray the full car as i dont really have the ideal area to do it, for the time being im just painting up bits like the inlet manifold and the inside of the car as such a perfect finish is not needed, aswell as highbuilding the bumper and flatting them back to lose the texture of the plastic.

Make sure you use a proper plastic primer or it will all end in tears :)