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I'm thinking about buying a sprayer for painting my stepside truck, probably my Explorer later on, and my F150.
Currently I have the $15 Harbor Freight purple gun. I have painted a fair bit of stuff with it using Rustoleum and similar paints so I guess I am familiar enough with it but I don't know if I trust it enough to spray a paint job that I want to look fairly nice. I may just turn it into a primer gun.
What would y'all suggest? I don't really want to spend a whole lot of money but I don't want junk either. I looked at the "nicer" HF guns - I really don't see much difference, maybe they are a little smoother but for $140 or $230 vs $15 you should at least get a metal paint cup... their high end gun has the same shitty plastic one that the $15 gun does!!!
Looked at a few others including DeVillbliss Starting Line, Ingersol Rand, kit from TCP Global... they all get good reviews everywhere but so do the HF guns.
What should I do? Drop $170 on a nice DeVillbliss? Buy a couple more $15 purple guns?
Currently I have the $15 Harbor Freight purple gun. I have painted a fair bit of stuff with it using Rustoleum and similar paints so I guess I am familiar enough with it but I don't know if I trust it enough to spray a paint job that I want to look fairly nice. I may just turn it into a primer gun.
What would y'all suggest? I don't really want to spend a whole lot of money but I don't want junk either. I looked at the "nicer" HF guns - I really don't see much difference, maybe they are a little smoother but for $140 or $230 vs $15 you should at least get a metal paint cup... their high end gun has the same shitty plastic one that the $15 gun does!!!
Looked at a few others including DeVillbliss Starting Line, Ingersol Rand, kit from TCP Global... they all get good reviews everywhere but so do the HF guns.
What should I do? Drop $170 on a nice DeVillbliss? Buy a couple more $15 purple guns?