To the production painters, Does anyone have a decent system of cleaning guns? I have one of these washers at work and it’s okay. I always find myself getting lazy with keeping the outside clean. Yesterday, after one booth load I’m washing 7 guns. 4 different colors. One of them a tri-coat requiring a midcoat base and another requiring a tinted clear coat and one matte clear part. I never feel like I get them really clean. I usually run recycled solvent through to get rid of most of the base or sealer and then when clean thinner though for a bit and try to wipe them down. On my clear and pearl guns I only run clean. There has to be a better way.

Iwata LPH-400 x 2. Silver cap and orange cap, one with Devibliss pressure and one with Iwata. Keep up the hunt!

Has anyone checked out this gun yet? For those who haven't, it now ships with a 1.3 cap/tip/needle for base, and a different 1.3 cap/tip/needle for clear. An LVLP gun. Brian on Paint Society kind of liked it, but he felt it sprays too slow for shop use.

Hey all. Just randomly curious, if I was to include a pair of wide racing stripes on my old project C3 Corvette, at which point in the painting process should I mask and paint them? Before clear? or after?

Hello, I’m new here and this is my first post. I am painting an airplane (homebuilt) using Axalta AF400 series paint (AF403 packaged white to be specific) and I am pretty sure it contains isocyanates. I have been using a respirator with 3M 6003 cartridges, but have read a few things recently that claim that no cartridge is really adequate for isocyanates and that a forced fresh air respirator is needed. Anyone here more expert in the PPE field than me who can comment? I have posed this question to my Axalta paint supplier, but haven’t received an answer. I suspect this may be a question they will dodge given liability concerns. I looked at the Hobby Air systems and they aren’t super expensive. Looks like I could get one with a full hood for well under 1 AMU. AMU = Aviation Monetary Unit which is $1,000. Pilots and airplane owners use AMUs as it sounds better to tell your wife that something only cost 2 AMUs rather than 2 grand. 😂