I'm not a pro painter, but I have used siphon for years, but when we painted the parts on my Kids '29 I broke out the new gravity feed they had bought me a few years ago. I was saving it for a special project. After using it, I will never go back to the old ones, and the main reason is ease of use. You load the top container and do your painting, and when cleanup time comes it was so much easier.

All I had to do was unscrew the plastic cup and clean it out with some laquer thinner, then wipe the rest of the gun with a rag wet with more laquer thinner. Finally, I loaded the cup with clean laquer thinner and ran that through the gun, and I was done. I used to dread cleaning my old guns, but this thing was the best. It is also a Hi Volume, low pressure, and the paint went really far.

Maybe some of the guys who know more will have a different opinion, but for me these are the cat's meow.

Don

PS: I also bought a touchup gun made the same way, and it is perfect for small parts, like brake drums, engines, transmissions, etc. The pattern is very easy to control and get good results.