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TR2/3/3A Purchasing a paint gun

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Here are some photos of home body work and paint, along with two paint guns that I can highly recommend. I think my paint job would have cost me a bit more than $7,000 had I paid someone to do it. I'm sure I was north of $1,500 in materials and my paint guns are middle of the road so not cheap. But, now I have a painted car as well as some dynamite equipment for my next resto (the TR250 in the driveway...).

Pat

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Thanks for the pictures Pat. I was thinking about making paint both like that. Many years ago I made similar booths for the welders on the pipe line pumping stations.
 
Pretty job, Pat!

Steve, if you notice the pics of Pat's guns...the first Debilviss shows a disposable cup system. This costs a bit for the cups, but is SOOO worth it! It saves a good 15 minutes in cleaning, not to mention the thinner it takes for the cleaning. The second pic is the standard reusable cup, and it has to be cleaned every time you use it. The disposable cups last forever between jobs, and it makes it so easy you can paint with the sprayer almost as easily as a rattle can. You can get a set in pint size for small jobs like a fender, and the quart size when painting the tub...all for the same gun.

The features I think have made the most improvement in spray guns, in the order of improvement are:

1) top loading guns...no more delay in spraying and better patterns as a result.
2) disposable cup liners...eliminates ANY chance of a vent hole dripping paint on your freshly sprayed work, and cuts cleanup to 1/3.
3) Replaceable tips...Saves having to buy 3 guns for various jobs. The finish line 3 comes with 4 tips that cover clear coat on the thin side...to fiberglass gel-coat on the thick side.
4) HPLV...a bit less overspray so paint covers more.

So...as your budget allows, make sure you get #1, and then work your way up. If you get all 4, then I guarantee you will be happy with your set-up.

Oh, and once you have your gun...let us know and we can discuss water separation, which is probably more important than spray gun quality!
 
Regarding John's No. 2, I use the DeKups system. Works great and easy cleanup. I think best part is that you can spray from any angle, including upside down. That is a huge help to me.

Pat
 
PatGalvin said:
Regarding John's No. 2, I use the DeKups system. Works great and easy cleanup. I think best part is that you can spray from any angle, including upside down. That is a huge help to me.

Pat
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+1. Huge benefit.
 
I went with the concourse Devilbless paint gun because it only needed 4 cmf and 29 psi. They had the beginner line Devilbless on sale for 139.00, but she said the gun would need 13 cmf. That does not sound correct, but she checked, so I went the concourse and some disposables cups. Maybe???????
 
I bet that is a very nice gun. Let us know how you like it. When you are painting a large car or truck, you need a gun that really hoses out the paint so you can get entirely around the vehicle and the first spray area hasn't flashed yet, so the surface blends. That requires a higher air flow. I bet the lower air flow Concours will be very nice for our LBCs. Eastwood should sell the adapters for the DeKups system - You'll like that a lot. Have fun.

pat
 
Well I miss wrote when I mention the paint Gun I bought was from Devilbliss. The Gun is actually an Eastwood concourse model made by Eastwood and not Devilbliss. Anyone own one of these? The grapy part is I bought it last week with 20 D-cups for 250. 00 shipped, and know they are on sale for 139.00. I called them and asked about the sale because I thought I got it on sale, but their comment was I get 2 tips with mine and an extra plastic cup. I hope this gun is not some Chinese junk.
 
sp53 said:
Well I miss wrote when I mention the paint Gun I bought was from Devilbliss. The Gun is actually an Eastwood concourse model made by Eastwood and not Devilbliss. Anyone own one of these? The grapy part is I bought it last week with 20 D-cups for 250. 00 shipped, and know they are on sale for 139.00. I called them and asked about the sale because I thought I got it on sale, but their comment was I get 2 tips with mine and an extra plastic cup. I hope this gun is not some Chinese junk.
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I have the Concours gun from Eastwood. I used it to paint my '74 Midget. When I purchased it I also got several different needles and used it for high fill primer, primer, color, and clear, all urethane paint. It worked great and was easy to set up.I plan on painting my TR6 this summer. I received a huge compliment when one of the guys in our Road Apples club asked me to paint the Lincoln he has been restoring.

My set up includes a water and oil separator at the compressor and a digital pressure regulator at the gun. I set the digital regulator to 10psi. I painted my car in my 1-car garage which is made smaller with my tool boxes, benches, shelves, and other things taking space. When painting I did not cover anything or hang a curtain. There was no overspray which I believe was due to the low volume of air and low pressure.
 
I have it and used it to paint my project. It works well. The only issue I had, and hopefully they fixed it, is that mine came with 2 cups, a metal cup coated with Teflon and a plastic cup. The Teflon on the inside of the cup came off with the first cleaning. Eastwood replaced the cup and I have had no issues since.

Cheers
Tush
 
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