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!



I paid, loaded up and left.

And before you ask...

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

(Belting ABAC comressor though!!!)

 

[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

 

[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

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.



Funny ol' world!

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

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