Spray painting

[stickman]

Jay,

What do you use to filter your finishing materials.

Jay

[jay_p]

Jay,

I use the small cone shaped filters that you buy at paint or hardware stores. They are paper with mesh inserts and about 5" diameter at the wide end. They come in several different grades and are pretty cheap. I made an mdf tripod with a hole in it that the cone sets into, and the HVLP cup slides in under.

Jay

[stickman]

Jay,

Sounds good. By they way we keep talking back and forth like this and pretty soon, we are not going to know who is talking to who!

Jay

[earld]

Thank you, everyone.
I have found the information to be very helpful.
Whatta forum!
Earl

[waynec]

I'll add my 2 cents here, albeit a bit late. I spray clear coat on furniture products I make, and have used Accuspray model 10 HVLP guns for years now. They are well suited to this application.

The Accuspray is a plastic body gun with some stainless parts. I've had no problem at all with this combo, including spraying occasional lacquer. The gun comes apart in two halves, so you can do a thorough cleaning if you need to.

I also use the 3 stage turbine from Accuspray, which is loud (aren't they all) but does the job. Its a small enough turbine that you can move it to where you need to spray.

Finally, I buy my clearcoat from the same company I got the gun from. They recommended th correct tip, cap and needle size for spraying this material, and it works well. This company is Compliant Spray Systems at www.compliantspraysystems.com. Their Enduro waterbased polyurethane is a very good product.

Thanks for all the great info here.

Wayne from White Salmon