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   RW | Apr 15, 2008 01:25am | #1

   I dont have one that exactly resembles what you're talking about, but I do have a couple of touch up guns, and thoughts.

   #1 is pretty typical. Suction feed, flapper for a trigger, pretty comfortable to use but this particular gun is low end and its really only useful for things where pattern control isnt just critical. The low end guns do that. Not a lot of control. Which I think is the difference as you go up in cost.

   #2 is what I call a conversion gun, that is, HVLP but still on compressed air rather than a turbine. I really like that gun. It has control knobs for pattern, fluid, air, and can do lines from about 3/8" wide to up to inch and a half. Its great for edges, or narrow things like a face frame or balluster. This one is a gravity feed, which makes it harder to load without a stand but more comfy to use . . . at least in my paw.

   With both of them capacity isnt great. You'd use them as advertised. Touch up, not a whole stair full of ballusters.

   But your "holding like a pencil" - I've got a couple of airbrushes too. A cheapy I learned with, and a really nice Iwata. Night and day. With the Iwata and practice, you can shade in details, write your name, dot an "i", color in fixes and feather them out, or make them look like a knot . . . lots of control. But now the cup size is in ml, but its downright amazing how far that little bit of material can go. It will do oil based like paint but you have to cut it way down with lacquer thinner. My favorite application with that is spraying dyes with a drop or two of shellac in it.

    

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   IdahoDon | Apr 17, 2008 06:39am | #2

   I have 3.  One is the gun sold at lowes and is pretty generic and looks as if it's the same as the cambel hasfeld (sp?) sold at walmart.  It puts out about twice what a spray can would and is easy to use with thin liquids.  It's my favorite for stair parts.

   The next is the small PC gravity fed hvlp conversion gun.  It puts out about as much as a spray can so larger pieces are a pain.  The plastic lid has a hole that splashes out a drop once in a while.  Easier to clean than the gravity fed gun above.

   The third looked like an upgraded version of gun 2, but is essentially the same gun sold under another name with a prettier finish on the aluminum and an aluminum cup.

    

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   boschvaark | Apr 17, 2008 03:00pm | #3

   Awesome!thanks for the reply. So now the question is: Does that first spray gun do what you need it to do with minimal fuss? and is it a suction feed? Reason I ask is that some of my work is inside boats, where I need to be able to flip the sprayer upside down without it leaking. Thanks, B