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Mike:
The second gun, was actually a really nice piece of equipment. Double
reinforced bottom on the cup, really nice smooth action, and he said
they just don't get them back. They sell lot of them to guys that use
them to shoot primer in welding shops and to those that use them for
"shop only" guns for heavier finishes. He was really pleased with this
one. Sadly, no way I could fit it into my portability requirements.
On the bright side though, he said that he will probably have that one
on sale in the next 2 -3 weeks and if they follow their sale patterns,
it will probably be about $15. On the list for a shop gun.
This one would make a good gun - with the reservation that I haven't shot
it, but it has all the right stuff.
The ABS gun had the smoothest action, and really looked like an
expensive gun. The action was silky smooth, and the fit and finish was
well beyond some of their other stuff. Problems was, in the guns I
looked at (they were all dark blue plastic, so a black crack was easy
to see) the cracks. If you look at the ad pic, they were cracked at
the base of the hook, to the lower right of the pivot pen on the
trigger. This is the weak point of the casting but when I pulled the
trigger, I could see the flex, even on the ones that weren't already
cracked.
Hmmmmm - missed that in my examination. Good eye.
But, but, but... I could use some sage advice here...
All right, but I usually charge for this. First - never go to bed with an
ugly woman. This of course does not assure that you won't wake up with one.
Second - oh... you were talking about sage advice on paint guns...
They had a really nice gun that was in their $35 dollar range that they
are discontinuing. It is on sale for 1/2 price, about $16. It was a
large, solid, polished affair with a quart cup gun. It was set up so
that my little compressor (with the afore mentioned reserve tank) could
push it. It only needed about 4 cfm at 50 lbs, so I should be fine
there. Great feel to the packings, well built,,, so why are they
closing them out?
It has a .8 mm nozzle! Now I understand why they are so low on the cfm
requirements, they don't need much because they don't throw much
material, and certainly not thick material. I know I can thin anything
to the point where it can be shot, but I have to be careful not to
exceed the manufacturer's guidleines for thinning, and I also don't
have the time (contrary to popular belief, remodeling is very
competitive) to build coat after coat to get the 2 or 3 thousandths
required by different manufacturers for a warrantable end product.
Do you have a link to this gun from the web site?
With a .8 mm nozzle, would I be able to spray my thick oil based stuff?
My little Binks 5 knockoff shoots the urethane oil based coatings I
like with only about a tablespoon of thinner in 16 oz. So it isn't
really thinned much to me, but it does shoot perfectly as opposed to
unthinned. The coatings guy that sells this stuff gave me the formula.
1.2 or 1.3mm would be much better. .08 is fine for stains and thin stuff,
but you'll not like what it does for your work. Do they have a tip kit for
the gun?
BTW, do you have any idea what the nozzle size would be on the little
Binks 5 knockoff I have could be? I am wondering that as a trim gun if
it might not be somewhere in the .8 range and I just don't know it. I
am wondering if it is but cannot find any info on the gun nozzle size
anywhere. If that were the case I would run down and buy that bigger
.8 nozzled gun and let this go for a while.
Not sure what it would have. There's no mention on the web site. I'll have
to check what size on have on mine. I really can't remember.
It is feels little clumsy in the hand (full of paint should really
magnify this a lot) and it is obvious it will be harder to use
without a pistol grip that you need on a quart capacity gun. I am sure
that metal fatigue would be a problem and I would ruin my little gun's
fittings by hanging 4 1/2 pounds of paint and tank off that little
brass frame that was made for 7oz (holds 6 BTW). It is not designed to
hold 5X the weight. I will fill the tank half full, but then using a
gun at half capacity is kind of self defeating to me. Plus, this fun
will leave 1/4 of paint in the larger tank, not the 1/2 tablespoon I am
used to. More to clean up and dispose of on site, which means to put
in my cleanup buckets. So this is a bandaid, not a fix. I don't see
this in any way as a permanent solution.
I don't know that it will really strain the gun frame that much but with the
top lever it might indeed be quite akward to use. Let us know how it works
out.
At any rate, if you are still with me, I wanted to let you know that I
did indeed follow up our conversation here. Too many times people ask
for help/advice and if the responses are acknowleded, it is almost
always with a "thanks, I'll try that." I always wonder how many do...
But since you in particular took so much time, I wanted to respond
directly to you. Thanks again for you help, you've been great.
Sure wish my wife would say that about me. Happy to help out.
I'll go look at my tips again and post what I have on my guns. We've been
without power for two days and I've got the generator running, so we're
doing all of the normal things, but I haven't been hanging around out in the
garage for the past couple days.
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-Mike-