Electric Spray Guns
- Thread starter MartinJ
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I bought a Wagner this year but only used it for fence painting. It does appear to be very controllable. There are some decent videos on YouTube.
Tony.
Tony.
Many. Many years ago I sprayed a car with an electric gun. But it's a LOT of work.
Practise on an old panel.
Acrylic paint. Don't try to get a nice gloss shine. Lots of v-light passes waiting maybe 10 minutes between each pass. Aim for orange peal not shine. Let it dry. Then get the 500 wet&dry and start rubbing By Hand. Till all the orange peal is "almost" flat where you can still see tiny shiny bits between the raised orange peal bumps. Then switch to 1000 then 2000 wet&dry till it's totally flat.
Then get the polishing machine. Rubbing compound with the orange foam. And rub it some more.
But don't
Practise on an old panel.
Acrylic paint. Don't try to get a nice gloss shine. Lots of v-light passes waiting maybe 10 minutes between each pass. Aim for orange peal not shine. Let it dry. Then get the 500 wet&dry and start rubbing By Hand. Till all the orange peal is "almost" flat where you can still see tiny shiny bits between the raised orange peal bumps. Then switch to 1000 then 2000 wet&dry till it's totally flat.
Then get the polishing machine. Rubbing compound with the orange foam. And rub it some more.
But don't
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I bought a Wagner spraygun in about 1972, and it always worked well on cellulose paint, and would probably be fine on modern paints. It still works, but I do not have a reason to use it.
I bought one in the late 70s. You won't get a good finish straight out of the gun. As IanS wrote, build up the paint thickness with lots of thin layers, then flat and polish. Hard work, but with patience the results can be good.