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I'm a house/construction painter with lots of spray experience- everything from catalyzed furniture lacquer to interior and exterior latexes/architectural coatings to various 2, 3 and even (in one case) 4 component epoxies (trust me, you never want to have to spray coal tar epoxy!), with (over the years) a fair bit of after hours dabbling in various automotive enamels and urethanes/polyurethanes.  Although I'm fairly well versed with most spray systems- conventional, airless, electrostatic and even hvlp, I still prefer a conventional cup gun for automotive enamels and urethanes.  Conventional and airless are what I know best.  I have used an electrostatic (what a pain in the a$$!) and have limited hvlp experience- I understand it's different now, but when it first came out any nice materials I saw sprayed with hvlp had to be cut-polished to get rid of the orange peel and maximize the gloss/finish.  It just didn't seem to atomize the material all that well (again, like the electrostatic, it was one of the first hvlp's out there) so I never bothered to pursue it.

I don't spray stuff like that all that often (3 buggies in the last 5? years) and at the tender age of 64 I only do it for friends, so I'll stick with what I know.  I'm like Mike, that if I bought an hvlp unit and played with it a while I'm sure I could get acceptable results, but I'm not that into it...

Last edited by ALB
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