Attention painters, let's talk guns!

[w8lifter21]

I've always wanted to take my spray paint skills to the next level . Now that I have a few projects in the works, I think it making a small investment is worth my time.

Looking for recomendations to what you painters use. Not looking for the best of the best, but I don't want something that I may have to buy 2-3 times. Would $75-$100 buy a decent gun? I personally have the Pneumatic compressor below I use for little things like filling tires and other real small/light stuff. Does this have enough grunt to push paint through a gun? I'm thinking more of an airbrush than a "real" paint gun lol
http://www.harborfreight.com/media/cata ... e_9245.jpg

0.6 CFM at 90 PSI, 1.0 CFM at 40 PSI.
Owner's Manual

http://manuals.harborfreight.com/manual ... /95275.pdf

Recomendations to type/style/pricerange would be a good basic starter gun?
I do have access to a compressor similar to this:
http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1260 ... ckType=G13
if that would be "better" to use over the smaller one.

[Ozzie]

If you want to spray a car, you are going to need a much bigger compressor than that.
It won't be able to keep up.
You need a decent size tank to maintain a good pressure and keep the flow of paint even.
With that little one, your pressure will drop off quickly, resulting in uneven coating and poor atomization. (orange peel)
If you are serious about it, you would probably be better off in investing in a better compressor first, and worry about the gun(s) later.

[pepegurr]

As a general rule of thumb, if you are painting a whole car you want to have a compressor that can do around 9 CFM @ 90psi in order to keep enough flow going, for a good job these are bottom line numbers. I use a IR industrial compressor that runs 14CFM @ 120psi sitting atop of a 120 gallon tank. Find a gun you are interested in, then look at the ratings on the gun and buy a compressor that can accomodate the gun at ideal settings. A good gun can be had for less than $100 if you look around, but a compressor that can push it will be $500 and up.

[ashibah83]

as said, a good compressor is more important, but once you have that in order, anything SATA is great, my presonal favorite is my SATA jet 90 for production stuff, for heavier paints (high build primer and bed coatings) i normally dont use a HVLP, i like to stick with a siphon feed (personal preference), and for touch-up and detail stuff i have a small SATA minijet