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Purdy Swoft · 02-09-2014, 03:22 PM

I allways used Binks or Sharpe siphon feed paint guns for over 30 years in the body shop. A few years ago I started using a gravity feed gun in my home shop and now prefer it. Everythinf seems to be going HVLP for the last several years. The name is a misnomer the HVLP guns usually need at least 18 cfm or more. I never used HVLP and a lot of older painters won't even use them. I will agree that Harbor freight makes a low cost gravity gun. I bought a couple of gravity guns at HF a couple of years just to have one to lend instead of my Binks. The HF gravity gun with 1.4 tip gun worked real good and only cost just over fourteen dollars. If you only got one paint job out of it you could just through it away and buy another with no regrets. The last time that I visited the Mobile HF store they only had the HVLP version. I don't recommend HVLP for a beginner painter.

02-09-2014, 03:22 PM	#4
Purdy Swoft Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Alabama Posts: 8,099	Re: HVLP setup I allways used Binks or Sharpe siphon feed paint guns for over 30 years in the body shop. A few years ago I started using a gravity feed gun in my home shop and now prefer it. Everythinf seems to be going HVLP for the last several years. The name is a misnomer the HVLP guns usually need at least 18 cfm or more. I never used HVLP and a lot of older painters won't even use them. I will agree that Harbor freight makes a low cost gravity gun. I bought a couple of gravity guns at HF a couple of years just to have one to lend instead of my Binks. The HF gravity gun with 1.4 tip gun worked real good and only cost just over fourteen dollars. If you only got one paint job out of it you could just through it away and buy another with no regrets. The last time that I visited the Mobile HF store they only had the HVLP version. I don't recommend HVLP for a beginner painter.