[john hall]

I must have read these post through 3-4 times, lot to take in when you haven't used anything but a rattle can for a long time. Farm tractors/equipment and lawn mowers would be the extent of my painting. I tried to paint a car once only to have it made real obvious my body work skills are pathetic.

So, if I get a notion to paint something around here, assuming the seals and stuff in my old siphon feed paint guns are OK, (Chinese copies of a Binks I think) would that still be my preferred style of paint gun? Back in the early 90's it seemed everyone was going to HVLP systems that were quite expensive. Anything cheaper/better out--as in Harbor Freight models?

As I typed this, I got to thinking about how much we used to paint, I can recall 12 tractors and 3 lawnmowers from around 1986-2005. Amazing when you "leave the game", how foreign this all becomes. Attached is a pic from 1994. It's my IH T-20 crawler, I used lacquer primer and 2150 red from the IH dealer.