Paint gun recommendations please

[Sash]

I have two jobs I want to do, and am wondering if a proper paint gun would be worth buying?

- repainting cast iron garden furniture with Hammerite-type paint. My alternative would be to buy spray cans, but they are expensive, and I would need at least half a dozen cans

- panel work and wheels on an old Land Rover. Long-term project stuff, and my alternative would be spray cans for the wheels, and brush/rollers for the panels.

I don’t have a compressor, so would have to add that to the purchase cost.

Any recommendations or other advice?

Many thanks

 

[moeggesit]

Decent quality 2-pack paint in cans go a long way for car panels. If cost is a consideration get rid of the Landrover!

Spay is messy so I won’t paint garden furniture that way. Hammerite with a brush goes on well and direct to rust.

 

[weblyish]

For the garden furniture definitely paint on a brush
It'll need a scrub, wash and key either way and by then paint by hand will seem the least of your worries
Never had good results with hammerite on metal for outdoors by spray. It never seems to put enough on and picking up drips are a nightmare

Might be worth it for the landie though. Flat panels are a pain by roller

Consider getting a second hand and reselling once you are done

I bought my last sprayer off gumtree. Sold it when we moved house and I think I cost me a tenner to have it for 4 years

 

[Bowland blades]

Hi build vinyl , will need thinning down to spray if brush painted you should manage but stir real well . You need a pro paint shop not a DIY store . For the best finish and life drop steel parts in at a sandblasters .
This was my bread and butter as a Architectural Blacksmith before the knives took over

 

[Sash]

Brilliant!
All great advice: you have talked me out of it.
Now, off to get some brushes for the furniture….

 

[Will the chippy]

I swapped from a cheap spray gun to a mid priced devilbiss, it’s night and day the difference. If you do get one a big compressor is needed, or only small bits done at a time. I had a turbine help sprayer which was excellent but buy cheap buy twice. You’re looking at 500 for something worth having.
For a few bits I’d look at good quality rattle cans, think you can buy separate nozzles to get a better spray pattern.

 

[Bowland blades]

I swapped from a cheap spray gun to a mid priced devilbiss, it’s night and day the difference. If you do get one a big compressor is needed, or only small bits done at a time. I had a turbine help sprayer which was excellent but buy cheap buy twice. You’re looking at 500 for something worth having.
For a few bits I’d look at good quality rattle cans, think you can buy separate nozzles to get a better spray pattern.

Nah 500 for the spray gun ? No nothing like ! With the compressor lines etc yeah . I suspect your talking including the compressor, lines etc

 

[Will the chippy]

Nah 500 for the spray gun ? No nothing like ! With the compressor lines etc yeah . I suspect your talking including the compressor, lines etc

No the hvlp turbine ones are 500 ish for one work having. The devilbis was about 150. But you need a good compressor. I've had the cheap stuff and it works to a point but you do get what you pay for.

 

[Bowland blades]

No the hvlp turbine ones are 500 ish for one work having. The devilbis was about 150. But you need a good compressor. I've had the cheap stuff and it works to a point but you do get what you pay for.

Been a long while since i bothered with those ( mid eighties i guess ) A decent sized compressor for me all the way for me . Thing is air tools are fairly cheap and you can use them with various tools . Ones i like are the simple air hose gun for clearing dirt and dust out from places you would struggle you get with brushes, Nut runners, tyre inflators etc etc.