retrojoe
Part of things
Life is to short to drive boring cars.
Posts: 74
|
|
|
|
|
Hey,
has anyone had much luck with these electric paint guns? ive seen one on a Motorsport shop on ebay, it looks the part. I'm obviously not looking for a showroom quality finish as there so cheap but what sort of experiences have people had with them?
thanks for the help guys:)
Joe
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Did a nice enough job on my garden shed.
XBollox on here has one and uses it for car stuff. He gets reasonably good results from it, but I believe there is a real knack to getting paint consistency and gun settings right to avoid splatter.
|
| |
1986 Panda 4x4.
1990 Metro Sport.
1999 Ford Escort estate.
|
|
retrojoe
Part of things
Life is to short to drive boring cars.
Posts: 74
|
|
|
|
|
Cool! i think I'm gunu do it then,
Thanks
|
| |
|
|
madmog
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 1,155
Club RR Member Number: 46
|
Electric spray paint gun.madmog
@madmog
Club Retro Rides Member 46
|
Apr 20, 2013 22:33:56 GMT
|
I read something somewhere (can't find now  ) about electric sprayguns being capable of injecting paint through skin. So might be an extra risk to be mindful of. |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
Apr 20, 2013 23:28:23 GMT
|
|
I've used an earlex one and it was fairly toss. Well, absolute toss. After spending ages setting it up, it was maybe almost as good as a rattlecan, but it was hugely dependent on the paint consistency. Would have been OK for doing a fence which is what it was designed for, really.
I've painted all kinds of things with terrible compressors and car boot sale guns, and even the worst of the worst was way better than this!
If you keep an eye out you can get a compressor for under £100 and an ebay gun is only about £15, you'd spend more money on wasted paint with the earlex than you'd save. A little compressor won't paint a full car in one hit but it'll do a panel fine.
|
| |
|
|
grumpy
Part of things
Posts: 557
|
|
Apr 21, 2013 13:07:52 GMT
|
I've used an earlex one and it was fairly toss. Well, absolute toss. After spending ages setting it up, it was maybe almost as good as a rattlecan, but it was hugely dependent on the paint consistency. Would have been OK for doing a fence which is what it was designed for, really. I've painted all kinds of things with terrible compressors and car boot sale guns, and even the worst of the worst was way better than this! If you keep an eye out you can get a compressor for under £100 and an ebay gun is only about £15, you'd spend more money on wasted paint with the earlex than you'd save. A little compressor won't paint a full car in one hit but it'll do a panel fine. And you have a compressor for tools etc as a bonus |
| |
|
|
) about electric sprayguns being capable of injecting paint through skin. So might be an extra risk to be mindful of.