Replacing a Wagner Power Painter

[crokett]

This past weekend I did a lot of staining and painting with my little Wagner. I know that most folks hate em but to date mine has stained 3000sqft of fence, 2 decks, a playhouse/swingset and painted a bedroom and 1.5 sheds. The only problem I've had it is it jamming once when I forgot to oil it. My only gripe with it is the hoses you get to pull paint from a bucket are useless, it is too wimpy to do that. I have to stop and refill the cup. That being said, I have some gift cards to spend.

I am thinking of replacing it with something else and wondered if this (or similar) would work with my compressor. It is a PC pancake rated for 3.5 CFM @ 40 PSI IIRC. This gun also says nothing about spraying stain. Whatever I get needs to do both.

http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...10000003+90401

[Tom Slick]

The small one (detail gun) will do "ok", the larger one will wear out your compressor fast. I use a full sized HVLP gravity feed gun with a 20 gallon compressor and it works "ok". They are set up for spraying thin materials, like stain, lacquer etc and don't do well with thicker materials like house paint.

[crokett]

Hmm... I'd be spraying paint a lot more than the thinner materials. Thanks for the info.

[Tom Slick]

It seems as though the wagner conversion gun is really good for both thin and thick finishes but you aren't going to be able to use any decent sized gun with a pancake, they use a lot of air.

[Pappy]

I have sprayed both stain and thinned paints with one of these. A pancake won't do it, though. The 2 qt cup helps reduce the amount of time to refill.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=93312

There is also an HVLP version of it.