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Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #1
LittleBritishCar Rick Anderson Napa, California, USA Sign in to contact 1966 MG 1100 "Julia" 1975 MG MGB "Chiquita"	Topic Creator (OP) May 28, 2012 09:52 AM Joined 15 years ago 889 Posts

I am going back and forth with all of the systems available. Apollo, Fuji, and Citation all get great reviews. Although I would like the Citation 4 stage with an AccuSpray Series 10 gravity feed gun, I am probably only using it one time so I am leaning toward the TP system. It is nearly half the cost and the reviews are pretty good. Anybody have experience using any of these systems?

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #2
MG David David Witham Warwick, UK Sign in to contact	May 28, 2012 10:14 AM Joined 14 years ago 524 Posts

I once used an Apollo one of my friends owns. It did a good job. However, the level of my skill is such that I always end up with areas that need a little bit more paint often due to sand through or not putting enough on. The Apollo is poor and handling small amounts of paint because it has a large underslung paint container. If you can get a gravity fed model that would solve the problem.

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #3
72bwhite Larry McKinney Thousand Oaks, USA Sign in to contact 1972 MG MGB	May 28, 2012 03:30 PM Joined 15 years ago 1,417 Posts

I use an older AccuSpray spray a very even fan and much less over spray then some of the pressure systems. Painted the MG with it and now doing the 51 chevy pickup with it, wish I had the gravity feed instead of the pot style but that was what we used back when I bought it.
Down side is you have to mail order spare parts
Up side is it's a very easy gun to paint with.
Mine is their complete system turbine and gun came as a set.

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #4
stuart sinclair honiton, UK Sign in to contact 1951 MG TD "Mixed Breed" 1979 MG MGB GT	May 28, 2012 04:15 PM Joined 13 years ago 844 Posts

I managed some years ago to get brush on auto paint in Torquay, I got away without putting primer on just brushed it onto a GPO yellow H A vauxhall van i sold it soon after,

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #5
Zymurgy Mike Madden London, OH, USA Sign in to contact 1966 Chrysler 300 "Goldie" 1973 MG MGB "Melvin"	May 28, 2012 07:49 PM Joined 16 years ago 831 Posts

Here is my 2 cents worth. I have had 3 HVLP sprayers over the years. My favorite is my last a Titan Capspray 125. Instead of the continuous running turbines, it has a compressor with twin tanks. The main problem I had with the turbine HVLPs is how hot the air became in a relatively short amount of time. If I was researching for a new HVLP I would check out how hot the air became with the different HVLPs.

The air would get so hot that it would dry the clear coat before it hit the car. I never seemed to have problems with the paint but had issues with the clear. These were pretty early generation HVLPs so maybe they have resolved this problem but I would definitely check it out. My Titan 125 air is always cool but you can empty the small tanks, but if you have a larger compressor tank it's not an issue.

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #6
Oxide Del Rawlins (Disabled) Disabled Account, Antarctica Sign in to contact 1959 MG MGA	May 28, 2012 09:38 PM Joined 14 years ago 1,556 Posts

We hada similar problem with the hot air with our Accuspray turbine. I'm told that a longer hose helps a lot, and gives the air a chance to cool a little before it reaches the paint gun.

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Re: Who Has Painted a Car With a Turbine HVLP? #7
cstrong45 Charles Strong Bainbridge Island, WA, USA Sign in to contact 1978 MG MGB V6 Conversion	May 29, 2012 08:10 PM Joined 20 years ago 7,435 Posts

I have a buddy in CT that swears by the turbine.

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