Wow!
A lot of good info here,thank you all very much.
So is a gravity gun better than a siphon gun.....or vice versa?
For what I’m doing I’m sure the HF one will suffice.

Lots of good info gang.
Thanks Much!

Can you still buy "siphon" guns ?!?! Ok, I'm joking, I know you can. I'm liking the gravity guns.

I have a cheap campbell hausfeld spray gun. It puts paint down smoother than what's on the new cars at the dealer's lot.

After 20 years on that Carlisle $20 special the seals went out
so I asked my paint guy where I get all my car paint
he said go to hf get one bring it home turn the fan horizontal spray it on a piece of plywood or cardboard
If it shoots one side heavier then the other take it back until you get one that sprays even - hell got one on the first try
cost me 7 bucks with coupon Sprays great- I ain't no painter but it works for my needs
He told me the reason the seals went out is when I stopped leaving thinner in the cup after cleaning ?? Guess I just kept forgetting to - gettin old...

All the naysayers of the HF $20 gun should probably try one... I have 4 of them and as well as several high end Sata guns. Are they the same, no but can I shoot a show quality finish with a $20 HF gun, YES! I have 3 cars with best paint trophies shot with those guns... are they perfect, far from but they do work.

Agreed,
Ive used a couple of them . with zero complaints.
Right down to the airbrush for $10.

if something goes wrong, I'll drop it in the trash and go get another one.

Im not a painter and would never try to make a living with one of them .
BUT, I know enough to paint small parts , brackets , pulleys, etc etc

Its like anything ... a lousy result is not necessarily the fault of the tool. I've shot stuff that I wasn't happy with so sanded a resprayed and the things came out with a mirror finish. There are a lot of variables to a good paint job and the gun is just one of them.

I have been painting airplanes with the $26 grizzly industrial 4oz HVLP paint gun for years, great for small projects and I just use a 60cc syringe to mix the paint with accurately in small batches.

http://www.grizzly.com/products/HVLP-Mini-Spray-Gun-with-0-8mm-Tip/H8224

4th of July sale

I had a CIA? From the paint store it sprayed really nice and wasn't a ton of money, like 80$. It was heavier and all chrome plates or brass. I screwed up and didn't clean it good enough. I have since been using the HF guns. Don't work as good and feel like pos compared to that other gun. But they work fine for what I do. I used the little detail gun to spray some bike frames and other stuff I got great results with that one. Ive seen great paint jobs done with them so I probably wouldn't ever use anything else. I was told to just buy a new one if your spraying clear.

The solvents to clean exceed the cost of the gun?

Now that’s reasonable!
Is the 1.4 tip good?
What psi should the regulator be set to when spraying with a gun like this?

All of this info has helped me a ton.
Thanks to everyone!

Wally.

I buy them six at the time--toss the cleaning kit wash them out , use them , TOSS them and keep rolling
I have done some great paint work with them!!
Not what you want when you are making a living but hey--they are awesome for yard furniture, wood furniture, under hood jobs etc

Pressure is the key I have a regulator that I swap from gun to gun

That is a strange looking picnic table.

My neighbor is a professional body and paint guy. He quit using his high end guns for all but full restorations and went to the cheap HF guns for most smaller jobs. He cycles them from paint and clear oat, down to primer, then tosses them and replaces with new.