painting bike
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painting bike
I will be painting my g/f's bike soon and wondered if there were any advantages to using a certain spray gun. I already have an old school gun that has the paint in the bottom of the gun as you spray. Would a gravity fed gun be any better (paint is on top of gun as you spray) to use. Would results be any different?
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RE: painting bike
well you dont want to lay thick coats, just nice thin ones. i started out with a thin coat, over roughed upprimer, to just barley see beneath it, let dry for about half hour, and repeated this four times. did the same for the clear coat. out of curiousity what color are you going with-
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RE: painting bike
Get an HVLP. I got 4 Sata HVLPs for painting cars. they are the gravity feed type, and its High Volume Low Pressure. so you get more material and less overspray floating around in space, and its easier on your home compressor, since you realistically only need about 19-22psi at the cap to spray, vs a siphon gun, that needs alot of air and pressure to suck out paint from the can, where it blows about 40% into the atmosphere, and doesn't even touch the bike.
I'm hoping your using some good paint through those guns, like Dupont or PPG.
Oh yeah, please wear a respirator, even if your outside or vented. Play it safe. Automotive paint contains Isocyanates.
Not only is it "greener", it will get more of the paint you paid for on to the bike, and not wasted.
Waste of money.
I'm hoping your using some good paint through those guns, like Dupont or PPG.
Oh yeah, please wear a respirator, even if your outside or vented. Play it safe. Automotive paint contains Isocyanates.
Not only is it "greener", it will get more of the paint you paid for on to the bike, and not wasted.
Waste of money.
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RE: painting bike
ORIGINAL: AKEP
Get an HVLP. I got 4 Sata HVLPs for painting cars. they are the gravity feed type, and its High Volume Low Pressure. so you get more material and less overspray floating around in space, and its easier on your home compressor, since you realistically only need about 19-22psi at the cap to spray, vs a siphon gun, that needs alot of air and pressure to suck out paint from the can, where it blows about 40% into the atmosphere, and doesn't even touch the bike.
Get an HVLP. I got 4 Sata HVLPs for painting cars. they are the gravity feed type, and its High Volume Low Pressure. so you get more material and less overspray floating around in space, and its easier on your home compressor, since you realistically only need about 19-22psi at the cap to spray, vs a siphon gun, that needs alot of air and pressure to suck out paint from the can, where it blows about 40% into the atmosphere, and doesn't even touch the bike.
This is true and false. HVLP is the way to go b/c it does save more materal by putting the paint out with less pressure so lessatomized paintis sent into the air and more on the part you are painting. HOWEVER HVLP is HARDER on your home compressor, the name stands for High Volume Low Pressure. It does use less pressure but it requires a MUCH higher volume of air to move the paint at the "softer" pressure.
just a little fyi