Compressor-less Painting?, Anyone know anything about Earlex 5000 or similar? Options

[pjf]

I'm still fooling around with rust on my 914 but eventually I'll be spraying stuff and was wondering if anyone has had any experience or knows anything about HVLP painting using one of the compressor-less guns like the Earlex 5000. Below is a link for it at the Eastwood site:

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=...temType=PRODUCT

I have a compressor but its not big enough to handle spraying and I thought a turbine specifically built for HVLP and a matching HLVP gun might be a good way to go. Eastwood is advertising it for car painting but its been hard to find any review on the Internet to guage how good this is going to be. I'd like to spray mostly primer but if I things are going well I may attempt to do the color and clear coats as as well.

Eastwood's price is $399.99 but it can be had for $100 less to give you an idea of the price.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

[VaccaRabite]

Or, pay a little more and get a 60 gallon compressor that will have more uses then just painting.

I thought about this for quite a while myself, before deciding to buy the compressor. Unless you start painting lots of cars, the turbine will be a single use item - not really a cost savings. I am using air tools just about every time I go into the garage now. And, of course, even if you are painting lots of cars, you can do that with a compressor too. And don't forget all the painting prep that you have to do. If your compressor won't drive an HVLP gun, then it also won't drive the air board sanders and such that you will *need* when doing the paint prep. Sanders and grinders use a lot of air, and you will use a lot of sanders and grinders.

My 60 gallon compressor only cost about $200 more then the turbine system.
http://www.cpoworkshop.com/compressors/cplc7060v.html

When I bought mine, it only cost $5.00 to ship as well. No idea if you can get that today or not. I got mine last year. Amazon had it for sale a smidge cheaper, but wanted $125 to ship.

Zach