Paint gun tip and advice

[Backally]

I’ve done a little paint spraying, not much. I acquired a Husky Pro paint gun from my late father. It has both suction and pressure feed, I can’t find a lot on it. I have a piece of wood trim For my house I would like to spray. New house, banged a piece of trim and everything else was sprayed in place so trying to match it up. So 1, what is the gun tip in the picture below for? And 2, It’s a sherwin Williams acrylic paint. I will stop by the store but I can’t find any thinning info. Is it worth my time to try and spray with this gun or am I better off looking at a real cheap airless sprayer.

 

[harrisonm]

No clue what that is. I've been painting cars and rebuilding spray guns for 40 years. If it is only one piece of trim, BRUSH it on. Nobody will Know the difference.

 

[George Jets]

I’ve done a little paint spraying, not much. I acquired a Husky Pro paint gun from my late father. It has both suction and pressure feed, I can’t find a lot on it. I have a piece of wood trim For my house I would like to spray. New house, banged a piece of trim and everything else was sprayed in place so trying to match it up. So 1, what is the gun tip in the picture below for? And 2, It’s a sherwin Williams acrylic paint. I will stop by the store but I can’t find any thinning info. Is it worth my time to try and spray with this gun or am I better off looking at a real cheap airless sprayer.
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That is a pressure feed spray gun tip. All quality autobody/paint guns are siphone feed with air holes in the spray cap that bows out air to give you a pattern as much as 12" wide if you do desire.

Pressure feed guns are pretty lame, don't do a very good job of atomizing the paint, and create a lot of orange peal in the final finish.

HVLP spray guns are the new norm now, can check out some basic ones at Northern Tool or Harbor Freight, they will work.

Can also spend a lot more money on the Auto Body & Paint lines higher quality HVLP spray guns.

I grew up on Binks model 7 siphone feed spray guns and still love them.

I use the New HVLP spray guns for the newer basecoat/clearcoat paint finishing systems. They give a little finer mist and use less air volume to do the same work as the Binks model 7.

 

[TheGrateRonzini]

We are talking latex interior paint? Or white acrylic hardy board trim paint. Either way, I would say water would thin it, but if the gun is made to spray water based box store paint, well by golly, buy a 4x2 and a sample of the juice and give it a whirl. Probably put you out 15$ to get what you are after

 

[Backally]

We are talking latex interior paint? Or white acrylic hardy board trim paint.

it’s listed as a acrylic latex paint. Can’t find anything specific about this paint, but seeing up to 10:1 for latex as a general rule. Going to do a couple test pieces, see if I can learn something out of this. I am guessing the painter used a airless gun, I may look into a economy model if I have to

 

[Backally]

[If it is only one piece of trim, BRUSH it on. Nobody will Know the difference.]

that’s what I thought too, but brushed 3 coats on a test piece and it’s not close to the finish

 

[Headhunter]

I’ve sprayed a lot of trim with my hvlp gun. 2.2 mm tip and I thin the paint with water or flotrol. Guys thin it with windshield washing fluid but I haven’t tried that yet.

Yo can thin with between 20-30% water is what I recall. You can look it up online. I sprayed all my basement doors and trim, turned out nice. I do thin with flotrol though.