Airless paint sprayer recommendations

[Haynie]

I just priced renting an airless paint sprayer for the multitude of garage doors I need to paint. They want 80 a day after taxes, and a yet to be determined cleaning fee . Guess if you are the only rental place in town you can charge what you want. That being said, if I only needed it for a day or so it would be worth it. I will need it for a minimum of a week. Looking on line it seems I can buy one for that price or less. Then I would have it when I needed it.

Now, there are a LOT of them on the market. Having never had the need to use one I never gave them much thought. I don't need a professional grade one as this will be used maybe one week a year if that. Anyone have one they really like and can give me the brand name.

I have some old Campbell Hausfeld air tools that work as good now as they ever have after like 15 years in a repair shop seeing a lot of use, so they are on my list. Outside of them I just don't know.

 

[Displaced Canadian]

Airless sprayer basics;
There are 2 basic types of airless sprayers, piston and diaphragm. A piston pump stops running when not in use a diaphragm keeps running. there are 2 types of piston pumps, your basic pump and ones with electronic controls. A basic piston pump when run at really low pressure will have a spray pattern that varies in size depending on if the pump is on a push stroke or pull stroke. An electronic controlled pump slows the motor down at low pressure to maintain an even spray pattern.
Questions;
What kind of paint will you be spraying? Latex uses higher pressure than oil based. Indoors or outdoors? Airless sprayers do generate a lot of overspray and only some of it can be controlled.
Cambell Hausfeld is a diaphragm pump expect to rebuild it after about 300 gallons give or take 500. Not a horrible pump for the money. Mine lasted about 1000 gallons to the first rebuild and another 300 after then decided it was done. If you can find one cheap an air assisted airless (new about $2500) has very little overspray and gives a great finish. Graco builds a good pump sprayer. A lot of how long a sprayer lasts depends on how well you clean it.

 

[Haynie]

Outside use with exterior latex paint. I figure I will be putting a max of forty gallons through it on a big year.

 

[shadetree_1]

I just priced renting an airless paint sprayer for the multitude of garage doors I need to paint. They want 80 a day after taxes, and a yet to be determined cleaning fee . Guess if you are the only rental place in town you can charge what you want. That being said, if I only needed it for a day or so it would be worth it. I will need it for a minimum of a week. Looking on line it seems I can buy one for that price or less. Then I would have it when I needed it.

Now, there are a LOT of them on the market. Having never had the need to use one I never gave them much thought. I don't need a professional grade one as this will be used maybe one week a year if that. Anyone have one they really like and can give me the brand name.

I have some old Campbell Hausfeld air tools that work as good now as they ever have after like 15 years in a repair shop seeing a lot of use, so they are on my list. Outside of them I just don't know.

I have used a Campbell Hausfeld for many many years ( about 20) and sprayed a multitude of different paints, they are a decently priced airless, inexpensive pump and work great for many years, just keep it clean

Joe