Painting has really been consuming my brain time lately. I've read a lot about it here, and other places.
I've been wanting to buy an air compressor for general garage use for some time, but there's just no way I'm going to be buying one of these big 30 gallon, several hundred dollar units that everyone recommends.
I'm wondering how a basic home-use compressor with an 8 gallon tank or so will hold up for shooting small parts with an HVLP gun. Anyone here have experience using an undersized compressor with an HVLP gun? I mean, if it can shoot for 5-10 seconds at a time, I think I can work with that to do the frame and chassis parts. I'll just shoot them outside, and if a bug lands on them I'll knock it off and keep going.
I have two cousins with full auto painting facilities, so maybe when it comes time for the sheet metal I could take it over to one of their places to use their setup.
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