Still undecided! Seems like there is no best choice when it comes to picking a gun. I suppose that there are as many opinions as to which is the best spray gun as there are spray gun models. Back in my day just about the only decision that a painter had to make, was weather to use a Binks #7 or a DeVilbiss MBC. Not being a professional, I don’t think I really need to spend five big ones on a gun for the kind of work that I am into now.
I just spent a day comparing DeVilbiss, Sharpe, Binks, Iwata (guess you can tell, I just got my April Eastwood catalog). They do however, offer a pretty good variety of spray guns for you to choose from. I’ll bet you could do a lot better on prices if you looked around. Seems like Eastwood bumps the price on bout everything they sell. I see they are still making my old Binks #7, at a whapping $459.99 and it comes complete with the overspray.
So what kind of noticeable differences are we looking at between a $54.99 budget HVLP and a $399.99 DeVilbiss GTi-620G? Is there a grand difference between the Startline and Finishline series. I see things like SS used on some, some claim to have anodized aluminum, does that mean the cheaper ones are pot metal and only have steel or brass innards? I mean even the HF guns have Brass tips and they are only $9.95, although I’m sure they have pot metal bodies.
Of course the rage now seems to be to switch over to HVLP but I’ve noticed some talk here of going one step further to LPLV that is supposed to cut down even further on the overspray. I can’t seem to find much on that, yet, it must be something new?
And now we have the “NEW” waterborne compatable guns. Is this the wave of the future, no more laquers, or solvent based, or 2K CA paints. All the resins in a water carrier thus eliminating all VOC’s, but what about rust? Steel, water and air always were the formula for rust.
I’m still, soooo confused, just to many choices!!!
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
