Advice on compressor.

[The Chef]

I have a little compressor for painting which is fine, but I want to use a large paint gun for applying fast mask to many shells at a time. I dont want to spend a fortune as it will just be for masking shells.

What would you recommend.

[eyeayen]

Any cheap 12 or 25ltr one from where ever you can source them. I think you could get them at Aldi or Lidl, one of them were doing them cheap. Otherwise machine mart, anything like that will do, it will sound like a machine gun going off though !

[The Chef]

Thank you. I use'd to have a yellow one but I cant remember the brand. It did indeed sound like a machine-gun but I used to use it for spraying Chocolate. But a 12.5L or bigger should be enough?

Thank you.

[MrMagoo]

I went with the cheapest 25l unit from Machine Mart and have been more than happy with it (just by a big stereo or ear defenders!). Paid about 90 quid for it IIRC, and as it's oil-less it's perfect for airbrushing. Just remember that it will probably be 1/4BSP fitment, and most airbrush hoses or 1/8 BSP, quick search on EBay turned up some handy-dandy converters.

It's more than enough to run an airbrush, if you want to go HVLP for spraying liquid mask ot will be fine up to about a .8 touch-up gun. The main thing to look out for when running guns rather than brushes is the CFM (i.e. air volume) the the compressor can drive.

[eyeayen]

Yep everything MrMagoo said above. 12.5 will be fine if it's only for LM, 25 will take longer before it has to fill up. Not much in it though if you're not doing clear coating or trying to spray anything large 12.5 will be fine.

[The Chef]

Thanks guys will a 17 L per min be enough to run a .5 gun painting on mask?