Just bought this at an auction on a whim, will an absolute armature like me be able too spray with it ? Put some water in it too check it worked and it seems too spray in a nice mist.........

Any good ? bear in mind I paid a whopping £3 for it.

Oh, its says on it, Apollo HVLP spray system 700.
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yes,used one of those to spray my Dutton thirty years ago.

I've just bought a new EARL one to do all my spraying, but same type.

Should be fine.

Pat...

you wont know til you try it, should be good for primer etc but i wouldnt think it would be much use for top coat. i had to go to 5.5hp compressor to run my hvlp gun as they push a lot of paint out at a much lower pressure than a conventional gunthe appollo is the most widely known type and been around for donkeys so you might be suprised

Ive got an horsebox too try it on 1st so I will give it a go, any tips ?

is the gun hvlp? i think the problem might be getting consistent pressure from it try it and then try using a conventional gun which will have a much smaller needle/jet . the big difference with hvlp is the band width, lets say a coventional gun gives a solid 4" band of paint with the outer coulpe of inches being thinner the hvlp will give a solid 6" band with less misting at the outer edges making big areas much faster to faint but also much more chance of getting big runs too so if it is a hvlp gun then dont overlap passes as much and see what happens they are supposed to reduce overspray by 40% . my compressor is 150l 5.5hp and will last around two minutes before kicking in to biuld up pressure again

It's the vane type hvlp, not like a compressor gun. I painted an Escort with one years ago and if you thin the paint plenty to one it is a very nice tool to use Jon. We used to run one off an old cylinder hoover and it worked fine, it warmed the air as it sprayed. Practise on the Discovery so you don't make a mess of the hossbox

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Originally posted by Jon Ison
Ive got an horsebox too try it on 1st so I will give it a go, any tips ?

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There a good bit of kit Jon, Ive had one a few years as Pete says paint has to be thinned more than a high pressure set up and technique is different but once your used to them there belting,very little overspray.

If you dont want it I'll give you £4 for it,thats 33% profit.

Cheers,
Bob

[Edited on 12/2/06 by splitrivet]

£4

I bought it to use for a change, normally at auction we buy to sell but I'm keeping this little gadget, sorry I should insert "our lass" for "we" above, she loves buying at auction and selling on ebay. I assume £3 wasn't ott on price.

Completely irrelevant to this posting, but a good opportunity to thank splitrivet for his avatar. I copied it to my desktop and had it running up the the top corner of my screen for about a day. It has now spread like a virus and just about every screen here has those bouncing bits juggling about in the top corner. Makes me kinda homesick.....
Thanks Bob.

Colin.

Update,

Used it today and got good results, not bad for a paint spraying numpty like me.

I can verify that, one shiny blue horse box coming up.