Any advice for buying a spray gun and air line?

[terranosaurusdoug]

Hello everyone, I've bought a compressor so I can paint with better results, and also to waxoyl/dinitrol etc, maybe even a little media blasting.
Does anyone have any recommendations? Places to buy from, brands etc, I need a decent hose and spray gun to start with, any advice would be most welcome, thanks, Mark :)

[emjaybee]

I have no experience of compressor spraying.

However, I do use air tools and the one thing I found out early on is DON'T get one of those curly elastic hoses. Seemed like a good idea at the time. You just spend your life fighting with it!!!

:lol

As an aside, I got my compressor (3hp 100litre) secondhand from a guy in south Bucks, when I went to collect, it was immaculate so I asked him what it had been used for...

..."oh just inflating stuff for testing".

He was a porn distributor!!!

:lol

I jest not!

:o

I paid, loaded up and left.

And before you ask...

...it did not come in a plain brown paper wrapper.

(Belting ABAC comressor though!!!)

:cool:

[solarman216]

depends on what you want to do with it, paint spraying/inflating tyres most small jobbies will do, CFM is what it is all about CUBIC FEET per MINUIT sand blasting needs loads more than can be run from a 13 amp socket unless you are just blasting very small components, Rick

[AlexD333]

You need some practise spraying that underseal, I'll come down with my motor :augie :thumbs

[terranosaurusdoug]

Thanks for replys everyone!
I was looking at those curly hoses (ooerr) emjaybee and wondering about that, you've saved me some hassle there mate thanks :thumb2 you not get any free samples ?? :augie :naughty

Only a small compressor I have (wahey) so no big jobs, if I do do any blasting will just be cleaning components, maybe not worth risk of getting sand/glass etc stuck in things(!).

Make sure bring plenty waxoyl down Alex, say twice as much should do it :thumbs I get it all over the place (ahem), dammit, why did he have to mention porn :doh :p

[emjaybee]

Thanks for replys everyone!
I was looking at those curly hoses (ooerr) emjaybee and wondering about that, you've saved me some hassle there mate thanks :thumb2 you not get any free samples ?? :augie :naughty

Only a small compressor I have (wahey) so no big jobs, if I do do any blasting will just be cleaning components, maybe not worth risk of getting sand/glass etc stuck in things(!).

Make sure bring plenty waxoyl down Alex, say twice as much should do it :thumbs I get it all over the place (ahem), dammit, why did he have to mention porn :doh :p

It was a double garage stacked floor to ceiling with shrink wrapped bundles of mags. He was quite open about it. Said that mail order was still very strong for adult publications.

:rolleyes:

Funny ol' world!

[terranosaurusdoug]

Yep, takes all sorts, dread to think what he replaced compressor with!!! :lol