Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Bought this little gun to spray some kitchen cabinets with oil based paint and am now a true devotee of this little green critter. The finish was superb, no drips, no runs, and no orange peel. The quality of the paint job ranks up there with professional results. I wasn't shocked, I was amazed, and best of all clean up is a breeze. I now choose this little gun over my other HVLP sprayers for most small jobs. For spraying oil based paint, this is the method I used: - Adjust the spray tip as per the instruction manual - Thin your paint by about 10% using mineral spirits. We also generally add a couple drops of Japan Dryer - pour your paint through a paint strainer into the mason jar - Set your compressor to deliver about 25 lbs pressure as a starting point (this gun doesn't take much) - Put on your breathing gear (seriously, don't spray paint without a proper mask on) - Start spraying onto a scrap piece of wood or cardboard to make fine adjustments If the coverage seems a bit sparse, then slowly increase the pressure to the sprayer a pound a tiny bit at a time. 28-30 lb is where we usually end up. Much more than that and your paint has a good chance of having an orange peel appearance. If you get it right, which really is not all that difficult to do, you should have a glass smooth finish. Things to not do: - Do not try to do the job in one coat. It will not work and your end result will be crappy. Anticipate three coats if using oil based paint. - Hang or set whatever you are painting in a relatively dust free location to dry as wet paint can be a dust magnet. - Spray in even strokes starting and ending off the edges of the object you are painting. Never START the spray with the sprayer pointing directly at the object you are painting. - Change spray directions from coat-to-coat (ie up/down, left/right, corner/corner) as that insures good coverage. Clean up is simple. Have a second mason jar with some mineral spirits in it, attach it to the sprayer and spray into a cardboard box until it's clear of paint (about 6 or 7 short bursts), then take a paper towel with a little mineral spirits on it and wipe the brass parts of the sprayer down to get any paint off. It doesn't get any simpler than that. Takes painting from a chore to fun...almost. We've uploaded a picture of one of our custom bathroom wall cabinets that was painted using this critter sprayer so you can get an idea of the finish quality.