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"electronic" spray guns

updated mon 16 feb 98

 

Ditmar/Gayle on sun 15 feb 98

The spray gun that's being referred to, is the type commonly sold in home
improvement and hardware stores. It's basically a piston / plunger attached
to an electromagnet. It sprays by compressing the paint or fluid and
forcing it out through a small hole in a fitting screwed in the front of
the assembly.
Relatively low volume and high pressure.
I wouldn't recommend them for glaze or other abrasive spraying. The pistons
wear or seize, and the hole is too small to keep from clogging.
Stick with the air compressor. Just try and make it more user friendly,
where you don't need to move it around and wrestle with it. Create a system
where it's easy to access and use hoses if needed.

From Alohaland, Ditmar.