Two litres of enamel, a gravity-fed gun and a 1.3 mm fluid tip: pull the trigger and you either get a wet, glassy coat or a dry, sandy mist. The gun is rarely the reason. The mix is. Bring the paint to the right viscosity before it reaches the air cap and most classic spraying faults simply stop ha...
A furniture workshop replaced its worn suction gun with a new 1.4 mm gravity model and immediately got worse results: the sanding sealer sprayed dry and gritty, while the same gun laid lacquer down perfectly. Nothing was wrong with the tool. The fluid nozzle was simply too small for a sealer that m...
You have a new HVLP gun in your hands, a cup of fresh paint, and a surface you would rather not repaint. The first pass usually looks fine, but the second pass can quickly turn into runs, sags, and dry, dusty patches near the edges. If that sounds familiar, the gun itself is rarely the problem. Her...