Frank Howell on sun 8 mar 98
I'm currently in the market for a HLVP sprayer for my hobby which is
woodworking. But my wife is the Potter in the family, and I was
wandering if anybody has experience with HLVP sprayers with glazes for
Pottery. I was at a Woodworking show a few days last Friday and was
examining a HLVP sprayer and asked the salesman if anyone else had
inquired about the use in Ceramics. He of course replied that he had
sold lots of them to Potters. I took this with a grain of salt. Well
maybe more then a grain. My big concern is that if HLVP sprayers could
be used for glaze spraying would be that the Turbine be powerful enough
to do the job as I believe that viscosity of glaze would be greater then
the laquers and stains that the sprayer I was looking at, and would not
be able to atomize it correctly. Anyone with any knowledge would be
appreciated.
Frank Howell
Mark Issenberg on mon 9 mar 98
Hi all, I bought a HVLP at Harbour Frieght and i have not had any
problems with it. It will get clogged once in a while so i now clean it
every time i use it. I pull it a part and spray all the parts with
silicon spray which i bought at PEP BOYS auto parts.
Last year i took the Tom Coleman workshop before NCECA . He was
using one . The sprayers were on sale so we loaded most of us into a
couple of cars and went shopping, i wish i had bought two incase the
first one dies.
I worked in Lee Marshalls studio last OCT and she had also bought
one that did NOT work. I pulled it a part and cleaned it ,it worked
fine.PS i met her at the Coleman workshop.
The part that gets clogged is the spring at the end of the tube
at the gun end.If you have one becarefull about the tiny parts ,but clean
them . Some of the parts rust so i dry and spray them.
Mark in Miami
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Patti M. Fox on mon 9 mar 98
Frank-
I have a Mattson HVLP sprayer which doesn't have stainless parts, so I
haven't been using it much with water-born glazes. Too much cleanup
involved.
However, with large enough orifice (.060) I am able to spray even thick
latex paint. The spray cap hole size is the key. Standard for the
automotive or woodworking materials (very thin) is .030-.045. The
thicker the sprayed material, the larger the orifice needed.
Good luck.
Patti
Frank Howell wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> I'm currently in the market for a HLVP sprayer for my hobby which is
> woodworking. But my wife is the Potter in the family, and I was
> wandering if anybody has experience with HLVP sprayers with glazes for
> Pottery. I was at a Woodworking show a few days last Friday and was
> examining a HLVP sprayer and asked the salesman if anyone else had
> inquired about the use in Ceramics. He of course replied that he had
> sold lots of them to Potters. I took this with a grain of salt. Well
> maybe more then a grain. My big concern is that if HLVP sprayers could
> be used for glaze spraying would be that the Turbine be powerful enough
> to do the job as I believe that viscosity of glaze would be greater then
> the laquers and stains that the sprayer I was looking at, and would not
> be able to atomize it correctly. Anyone with any knowledge would be
> appreciated.
>
> Frank Howell
Barbara Lewis on mon 9 mar 98
I have not had experience, but I have a friend who owns one and uses it for
spraying glazes. He loves it and says that it does not produce as much
overspray, making it more economical. I believe he bought his from the
Northern catalog. Barbara
At 11:39 PM 3/8/98 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>I'm currently in the market for a HLVP sprayer for my hobby which is
>woodworking. But my wife is the Potter in the family, and I was
>wandering if anybody has experience with HLVP sprayers with glazes for
>Pottery. I was at a Woodworking show a few days last Friday and was
>examining a HLVP sprayer and asked the salesman if anyone else had
>inquired about the use in Ceramics. He of course replied that he had
>sold lots of them to Potters. I took this with a grain of salt. Well
>maybe more then a grain. My big concern is that if HLVP sprayers could
>be used for glaze spraying would be that the Turbine be powerful enough
>to do the job as I believe that viscosity of glaze would be greater then
>the laquers and stains that the sprayer I was looking at, and would not
>be able to atomize it correctly. Anyone with any knowledge would be
>appreciated.
>
>Frank Howell
>
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Orion/Baker on mon 9 mar 98
We also do quite a bit of "fine woodworking" in addition to clay. After
about a two-year search for the "perfect HVLP spraygun" that would work for
both glaze and finishes, we chose a Sharpe Platinum, which operates at very
low pressure and can push extremely heavy/dense materials.
Sharpe has a website at http://www.sharpe1.com , that showcases all their
products, technical information, and also offers support at the "Dr. Gun"
web pages. Sharpe was very good about testing a number of our "house
glazes" through their guns for us before we made a choice. They're very
professional and not afraid of technical questions!
Best regards,
Ellen Baker - Glacier, WA
orion@telcomplus.net
http://www.telcomplus.net/orion
cyberscape on wed 27 feb 02
I agree with Sam Yancy. The 43430-75CA from Harbor Freight is a great
gun. Besides working really well, it has stainless steel tip and
innards. No rust. We are using them at the Armory and love them.
Unfortunately, right at the moment they are up to $64.95. (Current model
number is 43430-2VGA). Get or make a rack mount. Gravity feed guns do
not stand up by themselves, but they work great for glaze.
Harvey Sadow
Tom's E-mail on wed 27 feb 02
In the past I've tried several spayers; at the recommendation of someone on
this listserve several months ago, I bought an HVLP spayers. It is the best
in my limited experience.
Tom Sawyer
tsawyer@cfl.rr.com
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