Minigun, Detail gun or Airbrush?

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I'm getting ready to paint things like tie rod ends, radius arms, hub, steering linkage, various parts under my truck that will never be seen by the average person.
I have a full sized HVLP but it's going to waste a lot of SPI Epoxy on small things like tie rods. See the random pics below for an idea of what I'll be painting.

I'm a DIY newbie but I do have a large air compressor.
I may use my regular HVLP on the axle itself.

What would you suggest I buy to paint the rest of this with?
Minigun, Detail gun or Airbrush?

Or should I just squeeze the fan down and lower pressure with my regular HVLP gun?

Everything is out of the vehicle.

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sata minijet or equivalent. 1.2-1.4. i have a minijet4400 with a 1.4 that i use for damn near everything. it sprays tiny stuff to large stuff and anywhere in between. would work fine to spray something as small as a little bolt to doing your whole axle.
 
Jim C said:
sata minijet or equivalent. 1.2-1.4. i have a minijet4400 with a 1.4 that i use for damn near everything. it sprays tiny stuff to large stuff and anywhere in between. would work fine to spray something as small as a little bolt to doing your whole axle.
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lol it's also a $500 gun. :)
Sorry, I should have pre-faced with me being a cheap bastard.
I spent my money on a full sized HVLP to get a good coat to show off.
Want to be cheap with the minigun for parts under the carriage.
Like.. $100 cheap.

The Astro EUROHVT1 is in my amazon bucket at the moment.

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Yeah thats why i put equivalent. I cant recommend any of the cheap guns because i just dont know but my point was a small gun of that size and if you can find it in a larger tip like a 1.4 then your good but most gins that size come with a 1.0
 
I had more of less the same thought when I started my truck, tried a cheap mini gun and it was junk, got lucky enough to send it back and get my money back.

I used my main gun and adjusted it down a little, I usually went a little less fan and around a half turn or so less fluid and made more passes to get nice even coverage. A few pictures of what you can look forward to, I don't miss small piece work a bit. You can get real good at timing a blast of paint at the right time when something is twirling on a wire.

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I have a DeVilbiss startingline mini gun that I have had for 15 years or more that I've used for everything from paint to primer and it still sprays well. The Astro is junk, and so is the Harbor Freight, IMO. I have both, and the only thing I use them for is adhesion promoter or blending solvent.
 
sprint_9 said:
I had more of less the same thought when I started my truck, tried a cheap mini gun and it was junk, got lucky enough to send it back and get my money back.

I used my main gun and adjusted it down a little, I usually went a little less fan and around a half turn or so less fluid and made more passes to get nice even coverage. A few pictures of what you can look forward to, I don't miss small piece work a bit. You can get real good at timing a blast of paint at the right time when something is twirling on a wire.

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Hah, I was wondering how I might handle the timing of things swirling around!
 
Thanks folks.
I'll do some digging to find a decent gun in my price range.
Sounds like a minigun will work just fine if I can get a decent one. So I'll concentrate my searching for that.
 
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