painting tips needed

[Bill Pritchett]

Verne:
I agree, but to save some money, I purchased an HVLP trim gun from Harbor Freight.  It's probably a copy of one of the Sata guns.  For my needs, it works great.
Bill
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=46719
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Verne Koester 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:44 PM
  Subject: Re: painting tips needed


  Ed,
  I've had about a dozen different spray guns ranging from a simple airbrush, up through a full blown Binks automotive-type spray gun. The Sata Minijet 3 is the berries, far and away and is of the HVLP variety. You're gonna get a lot of opinions on this.

  Verne


    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Ed Alt 
    To: discussion at nsrca.org 
    Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 11:43 AM
    Subject: painting tips needed


    I'm looking for advice for painting a composite fuselage.  I've already got a 20 gallon, 8.4CFM at 40 PSI compressor with a good quality automotive spray gun.  I'm considering getting either an HVLP gun or possibly a Badger airbrush of some type.  I have the usual goals in mind for light weight, good glossy finish etc.  I'm leaning towards the airbrush only because it seems like I could probably have the best control over laying down a light finish that way.  I will most likely use PPG concept paint for the finish.

    Another question - the project is a Temptation with fixed stab.  Although I'm sure I could do a decent job of transitioning Monokote at the seam where the paint would end, I'm thinking of doing a light glass job on the stab and just painting that as well.  I will have an OS 1.60 up front, so it might not hurt to add a little more weight back there through painting.  For an area as small as the stab, this seems reasonable.  Is this a bad idea or not?

    Thanks
    Ed
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