Hi everyone, Im looking to purchase a decent, yet not too expensive air compressor and spray gun for painting my Escort Van project. Problem is Ive never purchased either of these 2 before and don't know what spec stuff to look for.

Ive seen the Draper 4212PRO Spray Gun
http://www.drapertools-online.com/b2...pp_skmno=88223

But not sure which compressor to use with it. Any help please? Im looking to sprend £300 on compressor at most.

Cheers.

 

Hi,

Try and get as good as you can afford for a spraygun, only thing is
with A good quality gun they use a lot more cfm,

You need to check the compressor can match the cfm of the gun,
my first gun i had from machine mart, it only needed a 2HP compressor,
and gave good results, i now have devilbiss but it uses a lot of cfm,
and with a 3HP comp it struggles, so match the comp with the gun.


Dave R.

 

and depending on what material you are spraying, you may need to use a respirator if like living ,and they can use up to 14cfm alone....

 

Thanks for the help so far, I just spoke to a company that says I will need a 3hp Compressor with 9.0CFM to run this Draper gun or any descent spray gun. This isn't a problem, but he also said I will need a 32amp power supply to run such a large compressor. Now that will be a problem

Is there any decent, yet cheap guns that can be used just to get me started? And a compressor to match?

Cheers

 

We have been using a mates compressor its a Wolf and he got it from Screw fix direct was about £79 cant give u any more info cos i dont know,we have been running air tools and spray guns off it with no probs! When im over there next will get the model number.

 

Cheers Twins, Can you find out which gun he is using too please mate? As said above need to roughly match the gun to the compressor.

Cheers