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When to use an HVLP?
HVLP sprayers are the fine finish sprayers of the home painting trade. Clear coats and varnishes from shellac, lacquer to oil based varnishes are applied smoothly with an HVLP. Great for small projects and trim. These sprayers give the smoothest finish with solvent paints. Latex paints will require some thinning and may be better sprayed with a airless cup gun like the Wagner Power Painter Max with Optimus or with a larger airless sprayer like the Paint Crew Plus or professional airless rig.
To use an HVLP you will pour the paint or varnish through a strainer to filter out any large tip clogging particles, into the cup. Thinning is not necessary for the better HVLP systems when using lighter viscosity paints (lacquers, oil enamels and varnishes and shellac).
Painters who do wood finishing as well as enameling should dedicate a separate spray gun to clear coat spraying only. This will eliminate the problem of a stray pigment from a past enamel job from dislodging internally and being ejected onto the clear varnish project by accident.
What to look for in an HVLP
- Air volume. The greater the volume the better. Also, the better machines have the capacity to spray at higher PSI (although you want to use the minimum PSI needed to spray the material - too much PSI will lead to more overspray).
- The cup gun. One thing I look for is the ability to spray at different "tilts". This is a function of the type of siphon tube the gun utilizes. Some tubes are flexible and weighted and will 'automatically" find the paint in the cup at any tilt, others are manually changed by the gun operator as needed.
- Portability. How convenient is it to move the HVLP rig around. This may not be as important to the DIY'er spraying a few shutters in one location. This is important to the painting contractor who will be dragging the machine throughout a two story house while spraying the trim on a new construction job.
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