HVLP sprayers

Anyone got any experience of these? I've never used one.

Looking at finishing some plywood seating bases with either woodstain or paint, need a reasonably good finish.

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The Medway Handyman
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

I used a Volumair professionally - lovely bit of kit, but they've disappeared. If you can pick one up, grab it.

I've had an Apollo for years, which is ok, but the plastic gun it came with is a bit crap. Better guns are available.

HVLP will do fine. What you can do of course, is get an HVLP kit for normal air supply - trades off pressure for volume and accomplishes the same.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

Aha! I've got a little compressor - 6 litre tank IRC. Got any links?

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The Medway Handyman

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "The Medway Handyman" saying something like:

Not good enough, tbh. When I say trade off, I mean really trade off. You need a paintshop sized compressor that would be used to run conventional guns all day long. No point in that expense, if all you want it for is a small job, so it's worthwhile looking at an Apollo system, or similar.

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Grimly Curmudgeon

I have what was the top of the range Apollo and it is pretty good. It has a separate turbine unit which gets used quite a bit for other things - like blowing through pipes to dry them before soldering. Its hose has the same thread as a 1/2" hose connection tap or washing machine one. It produces a vast quantity of warm air - far more than any vacuum cleaner set to blow I've come across, and much smaller too.

I bought it for car stuff using cellulose and got good results after some experimenting - the instructions weren't much good. No reason to think it wouldn't do as well on any other paint it's suitable for.

But same as any spray system the amount of cleaning needed after use may be out of proportion to the job it's needed for, as they must be stored in a spotless condition.

I went down the HPLV route because I simply have no place to store a decent ordinary compressor.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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