anyone ever tried an electric airless spray gun ?

[soo33y]

Just read about them.

Small and portable, easy to store.

Anyone have any experience with these.

I thought it might be good for small odd jobs...and touching up parts of the car.

Cheers.

[grimbo]

I have one which I have used to paint a fence and a couple of bedrooms. it gave a pretty good result. As long as the paint is the right consistency and the right nozzle is being used they would be fine for small jobs and as long as you don't want show quality

[Toy80Diesel]

I just used one on the weekend to paint cornices in the house.
They are quite detailed and paintbrush would have taken ages.
It was a 240v unit I hired it from Kennards Hire.
Only uses water based paints which needs to be watered down 10%.
Dunno how you'd use it to paint your car as it wouldn't be water based paint.

Using car paint, you could thin it out and the machine would still spit it out I reckon, but the result might leave some blotches or a peel look.
Just dont tell the hire place you were using non water based paint, and clean it _really_ well!!!!

Now, after typing all this I'm wondering if this is the type of machine you were considering? Or is there a more suitable airless sprayer you were thinking to use like the cheapie one Kmart sells complete with spray gun???

[B.D.R]

I would'ny use one on a car, we use them for painting roof's and they use a lot of paint 20 litre's in about and hour.

But it would be good to paint ya house with .

Chris

[Charlie]

The drops are a lot larger than a normal spray gun,you can spray a car but you need to mist over with thinners to flatten the paint a bit.

Regards

Charlie

[Zute]

I agree with Charlie, you need to use a lot of extra thinners, which = more coats= takes heaps longer.
Saw a Guy spay an old Valiant with a vacuum type spay gun(it blows instead of sucking) . He used water based house hold enamald paint I think . Lots of rubbing back, but it looked good.

[alki]

I would'ny use one on a car, we use them for painting roof's and they use a lot of paint 20 litre's in about and hour.

But it would be good to paint ya house with .

Chris

I am roof restorer and my airless can use lot more than 20lt/h.

[Charlie]

I agree with Charlie, you need to use a lot of extra thinners, which = more coats= takes heaps longer.
Saw a Guy spay an old Valiant with a vacuum type spay gun(it blows instead of sucking) . He used water based house hold enamald paint I think . Lots of rubbing back, but it looked good.

I should have explained better but by misting I mean you have a spare paint pot and spray straight thinners on after your paint, done properly it comes up looking fantastic but too much thinners and the paint runs.A lot of old trucks are repainted this way and you would think it's been buffed and polished but it's just enamald misted with thinners to smooth it out.

Regards Charlie

[Toy80Diesel]

I am roof restorer and my airless can use lot more than 20lt/h.

Yeah I was using about 5ltrs in 15 mins, and thats stopping to move the ladder around, not continuous spraying. So yeah they do use a lot of paint.

[munga]

we used up about 250lt per man per day on a project i did at gagadju resort in NT. pallets of paint. thousands of litres each week. that was using some pretty hardcore waterbased super elastic paint on the roof of some big big buildings. we were using (i think) 421 tips which prolly means something to the roofies.
anyway enough hip thrustin, I dont think you can change tip sizes in those cheapo elec jobbies, and if it says you can only run water based paint, I would have to ask why you cant run solvent based paint thru it. Id hate to see you run enamel thru a hire machine and watch it turn into a melted blob on your shed floor..
buy a compressor and a cheap star spraygun (about $120) with a 1lt cup or a 500ml gravity cup if you want to look the part. Id get the one with a 1lt pot that goes under the gun, more useful imho.