Lidl HVLP spray gun

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You'll get it soon, there's hardly a fortnight between one and the other. Sometimes the UK gets it first. I found that the recession is biting in the bum the gannets who used to raid Lidl stores for bits, as there were plenty of older stock items, including gensets from a couple of weeks ago.

High pressure HVLP seems like rather a contradiction in terms...

How is it different from a normal compressor driven gun?

well yes, but most cheap compressors are only fit for inflating tyres, half decent compressors with 15cfm output can cope with a small HVLP spraygun quite easily.

the first car i ever spray painted (1962) was with mums electrolux cylinder vacuum cleaner and the paint attachment, HVLP. with hindsight it would have been better to wait for a windy day and just throw the paint in the general direction of the car.

Plenty of high pressure sets are rubbish too.

I've got an Apollo HVLP, and it's pretty good. You couldn't get as good a high pressure set for the same cost.

Externally identical. I presume it trades off pressure and flow for volume by a cunning arrangement of internal tubes an'tings.

I tried that. The sprayer worked but *hairs* found their way through the filter and got embedded in the paint work:-(

Spraying outdoors with cellulose thinners collects all the Greenfly in the air column above:-(

regards

I'd guess one of the difficult things is drying the air from a normal compressor. A turbine type - normally used for HVLP - doesn't suffer from moisture.

Good point. I have a decent water trap to install.

Agreed, and the air flow is warm.

That takes me back, we had one of them too about the same time. Used it a couple of times for interior decorating with emulsion but generally more trouble than it was worth.

well at least with cellulose it dry?s quickly i was using coach enamel outside in winter so 8 hours later it was still collecting flys, leaves, dust, and even a hand print!

an essential part of youth and learning how to do a job properly elimination of all the methods that seem like a good idea but dont work. :(