Spraying interior doors - what sprayer?

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I've been slowly (while a gazillion other jobs are running in parallel!) stripping and oiling the downstairs doors and had expected to do the same with those upstairs. However, my "instructions" are now that the upstairs doors should be painted. I'm doubtful about getting a good finish by brushing so am tempted to set-up a temporary (batten and polythene) spray booth in a shed. My only experiences of spraying are many years ago with a Burgess(?) airless sprayer that was fairly awful, and with my long-gone dad's home-made compressor and a gun that he'd borrowed or purloined from somewhere - this gave acceptable results on my old banger (105E Anglia).

The questions are: what spray gear to get, and whether to opt for latex-, or oil-, based paint.

Andy Burns · Accepted Answer

HVLP sprayers seem popular, I have one that is, as yet, unused.

John Rumm · Answer

I have mid level Earlex HVLP setup that I have used on various furniture projects like:

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That was spraying Johnstones acrylic fast drying satin finish. The results were quite good IMHO.

I still have bits of workshop with white overspray, were I did not cordon off my makeshift spay are well enough :-)

Alternatively, a former neighbour of mine (a professional car body shop sprayer), decided he wanted to paint all the doors in his house, so took them all off, moved them to his workshop, and then "thinned" normal gloss paint, just by heating it up to a point were it was sloppy enough he could spray it with his normal compressor driven spray gear!)

No mail · Answer

... snippedThey look great in the photos.Initially the Earlex 5700 caught my eye, a bit pricey at USD350 in the US but £536 here in the UK!!!There seem to be quite a few used Earlex sprayers on feebay, but no 5700s. Which model do you use?

The Natural Philosopher · Answer

You can buy an awful lot of rattle cans for that

John Rumm · Answer

Earlex Hv5500 - not sure if they still make that one...

John Rumm · Answer

Rather limiting in the choice of paints and finishes though...(If I were spending that kind of money, then I would look at one of the entry level Fuji Pro series)

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