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Old 04-25-2015, 11:22 PM
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First off,i have small 3 gallon compressor, which I assume I can use? Also if I buy a paint gun, do I get a siphon feed or gravity feed gun?
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First off,i have small 3 gallon compressor, which I assume I can use?
I doubt it. Takes a lot of CFM to run a paint gun.
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Old 04-25-2015, 11:33 PM
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gravity feed is much better but your compressor is way to small, even the cheapo guns from harbor freight require at least 12cfm.
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What you can do is if you have a portable air tank is pipe it would into your 3gal compressor to give you more volume of air. Your compressor will run a lot and your may need to stop and let it catch up but that's all I did when I painted my cub.
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When I restored my Wheel Horse I used a siphon paint gun. i used an 11 gallon compressor, but I think it was too small, because it ran probably at least 3 times per 8 oz of paint. A 3 gallon is way too small.
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Your compressor will never be able to keep up with any gun I have a lot of guns from Sata's to cheapos with a 80 Gallon 24.8 CFM compressor and it still runs a fair amount and the more your compressor runs the more moisture it will produce so it will be hard to keep it out of the paint. The modern guns are all HVLP it stands for high volume low pressure the name it self speaks for it self.
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All I can tell you is I used a small 7 gal compressor and 10 gal air tank and painted my 1200. It ran a lot but did the job fine. I used a water filter to capture moisture. All I had was a cheapo harbor freight gun, works fine.
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All I can tell you is I used a small 7 gal compressor and 10 gal air tank and painted my 1200. It ran a lot but did the job fine. I used a water filter to capture moisture. All I had was a cheapo harbor freight gun, works fine.
Nice to hear. What kind of paint did u use? And how much to paint a tractor? Does it take about a quart each of yellow and white?
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It will take a lot more yellow than one quart if you do it right.
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It will take a lot more yellow than one quart if you do it right.
So like how many coats are u recommending?
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