Thread: what tip sizes??

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This is a subject that can get emotional real quick!!!

There are some that love the HF Purple 43460 and others that hate them - including me. They are air hogs to get to work right(if ever). Some will work just ok at 30-40 psig to atomize the paint, mine needed 50+. I originally purchased it to spray epoxy primer - it did spray primer on the car - as well as splatter almost everything else in my shop gray. I ended up using a DeVillbiss Finishline 3 for my primers. You can get 4 or 5 different tips and they will do a credible job. I also tried a Sharpe Finex and that worked well, but it performed at the same level as the Devil so another member here now has that gun.

For the final paint on my car, I was able to purchase an Iwata LPH400 at a very reasonable price - and after using that, you'll never go back to the $29.95 clunkers. But, unfortunately, they are now in the same price range as the SATA's

There is a well thought of HVLP low end gun - the Astro at about $70.

Paint (and even the undercoats) is just too dam' expensive to spray with a junk gun!!!!!!

That Finishline gun is the one we ended up using and were very impressed with it. We aren't pro painters by any stretch of the imagination, so putting a top end gun in our hands would be like putting a Stradivarious violin in the hands of an 8 year old novice musician. But the Finishline laid on a nice pattern and seemed to atomize the paint very well.

However, for my suspension and frame stuff I will probably still use the HF only because I have learned to work with them, and toss them occasionally as they are so cheap to buy.

Don