Cory Simpson

If you are planning on painting a car your self, or know anyone that is, DON'T USE AN HVLP! It is absolute ****..... And it is very hard to use an not get orange peel..... We had to do a good couple hours of wet sanding because of a $150 paint gun I bought. It did use alot les paint, but the quality it put out was horrible..... Used a regular spray gun that is a cheap POS and it was a 100% improvement, paint turned out smooth as glass, no orange peel, much easier to use, but wasted more paint.... So buy extra, and stay away from HVLP's!!!!

billzrx7

i always do, hvlp is more for environment i believe

Cory Simpson

That it is... everybit hit the car. But everything that hit the car sucked!!! If you turned the pressure up to much, it orange peeled like ****** hell, and the paint would partially drie before getting to the car, if you turned it down to far, it didn't atomize the paint right, and just spattered out.... To say the least it takes a very skilled hand to use one, but if you can master it, it could surly save you hundreds in paint.

travisorus rex

If you had never used one, why did you try it on your car? HVLP guns have worked for me in the past, with great results. Wet-sanding should be a very detailed and a little time consuming process. Two hours worth of wet sanding really isn't all that much, especially if you want it to look perfect.

Painting equipment is just like anything else, You get what you pay for. Why do you think taking your car to get painted is so expensive. Cost of supplies, knowhow, and experience all add up.

Last time I painted a car was my buddies Tacoma and we used an HVLP. He spent big money to get nice paint too (Dupont). Good paint and a good booth worked wonders.

?Maybe the HVLP you got was a POS?

1wild7

They are all I have ever used and i've been doing show quality jobs for years now along with insurance spot repairs never had a problem with any hvlp guns orange peel is never an issue what paint products were you using? reducers? booth temp? surface temp? humidity? tip size? air pressure? were you spraying Bc/Cc or Ss? Not only does it use less paint the finish is excellent!

Cory Simpson

Could have been it was a $200 dollar gun marked down to $150... the guy at the shop said it was a nice gun....

And the reason being it only took to hours, is because the only thing that got painted was the roof, A-pillars, B-pillars, doors, and rear 1/4's. We stopped after that.




We used an acrlyic 2K primer, shirwin williams ultimate 7000 paint with a 605 stabilizer (1/1), and a 5 star autoimotive extreme clear coat with hardener for it (4/1)

Maybe it works for you because your the man??? Didn't work for us though. It did pretty good on primer, but that acrylic is thicker, and he just sprayed it thick.

sevensix

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rex what type of hvlp did you use? im thinking of doing the roof on my car soon, was looking hvlp because of my budget.

here i go off to play with some bondo and sandpaper..

travisorus rex

That makes sense. The guy at the shop was probably on comission.


I don't know the brand name because it belonged to my friend with the Tacoma. His family owns a picture framing type business that I worked for for a couple of years. They spray with an HVLP all day long. It did cost about $300 and that was about six years ago.


Cory, good luck with the rest of the painting.

sevensix

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thx

Rob XX 7

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you didnt have the gun set up properly, everyone is using HVLP, not because of the enviorment, but because they are better guns.

Did you go wet on wet on top of the primer?
the second paint job might have come out better because you had blocked out that first paint job, so the surface was smoother the second time around. Wet on wet primers are really only good for perfect surfaces or to be mixed and used as sealers.

if you had that gun set up wrong from the start and it wasnt spraying fine enough each coat would make more orange peel and it wont come out that good.