Pressure Pot

Patsdeere · Jul 21, 2015

I have always used a HVLP gun with gravity feed, but at work we use pressure pots and I got to thinking it sure would make spraying weird angles and the underside of things easier. Anybody use a modern pressure pot and spray gun? Good? Bad? Comments?

Thanks.

RandyB(MI) · Jul 21, 2015

Yes I have. At the place I retired from, as paint shop super. , we used them exclusively , for everything not painted in booth with the pumpers/proportioners system. I use one at home and they work perfect for tractors/implements for the exact reason you said. You can either carry the pot in one hand and gun in other or rig it up with longer hose and sit pot (2 qt.) in a platform so it won't tip over. You can adjust these down to paint a bolt head or up to spray a fan 12" wide and plenty of fluid to paint the side of a semi trailer and the best thing is you can do it all with the gun upside down and with very little air pressure and hardly any spray fog. Only way to go. We even sprayed some metalics with them with good results.

Stephen Newell · Jul 21, 2015

The pressure pot would be good to use depending on the paint you are using. I sure wouldn't attempt to run a catalyzed urethane through a pressure pot. The paint is too expensive and too hard to clean out of the lines.

souNdguy · Jul 23, 2015

the biggest difference i see in pressure pot vs hvlp/syphon ( other than the cleanup! ) is the amount of paint you can put out. IMHO.. it's in that order.. PP, HVLP, Syphon.

So deffinately do some test painting on some cardboard till you are used to the amount of paint coming out.

and yeah as another poster said on catalyzed paint.. you burn lots of solvent cleaning a pressure pot..

circus · Jul 25, 2015

If spraying 5oz use the cup, 5 gal. use the pot. Good? Bad? Meaningless

Pressure Pot

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