TCP Global Brand Professional New 2.5mm HVLP Spray Gun- Great for High Build Auto Paint Primer - Metal Flake application and any heavy bodied paint or Primer Material -with Air Regulator

My new TCP Global HVLP spray gun with 2mm tip does a great job on slightly thinned latex and oil paints. My older gun was fine for lacquer and thinned varnish, but tended to clog with thicker material. Ive used the new sprayer with primers and finish coats, getting even coverage and good results when dry. The small tubular filter at the top of the gun assembly traps solids that might escape my mesh strainer. Controls are precise and the gun is nicely finished. The available fluid tip sizes should be helpful for spraying a variety of materials. I will use the spray gun a few days a month for home projects, mainly painting doors and long sections of wood trim. Great value.

I got one of the guns they basically glued together. It looks nice and seems to be well built for shooting primer but theres something wrong with putting a brand new paint gun in a vise to get enough torque on the head to remove it for initial cleaning! Im talking easily 75ftlbs to remove

Thirty years ago, when I put away my brushes and started spraying furniture projects, I bought a Devilbiss siphon feed gun. It’s a great gun for nitrocellulose lacquer, but I have never had a sophisticated enough booth to spray lacquer. For oil based polyurethane, siphon feed is not so great – lots of spitting and sputtering. I thought that was my fate until gravity feed HVLP guns came along. I am a big fan of the Harbor Freight purple gravity feed gun. I have two of them (for a total investment of $18.00 plus tax). I also have two of Harbor Freight’s professional guns. They are so inexpensive, I can have a separate gun for each type of material and avoid any chance of cross contamination. There is not much difference between the two Harbor Freight guns, though the professional guns spray a little smoother. Most of the gravity feed HVLP guns on the market seem to have been made from similar molds. I build furniture and spray mostly water borne clear topcoat finishes. However, from time to time, I do spray oil based finishes, stains and latex paint. For different materials, we need different size nozzle sets. Though the Harbor Freight guns are incredibly inexpensive, there is no way to obtain different size nozzle sets for them. Believe me, I have tried. All you can do is adjust the viscosity and the results of thinning material can be undesirable. As a result, the Harbor Freight guns totally lack versatility. That is what drove me to the search for an HVLP gravity feed gun for which different nozzle sets were available. I found two, both on Amazon. One is the ETE Etmate HVLP gravity feed gun and the other is the TCP Global Brand Professional HVLP Spray Gun. I prefer the TCP because it is a bit more sturdy and because the nozzle sets can be purchased separately. So far, I have purchased 2.0 mm and a 2.5 mm nozzle sets and I have only used it to spray latex. Of course, if a gun can spray latex well, it can probably do anything. The gun arrived while I was in the middle of spraying primer and 3 coats of latex on a project of five cabinets that I had started with the Harbor Freight purple gun with a 1.7 mm nozzle set. So I switched over to the TCP with a 2.5 mm nozzle set between coats. What a difference! With the paint properly thinned, it flowed on almost as well as oil based (but without the toxic fumes and difficult clean-up). I have read some reviews complaining about the grease on the gun upon arrival. Come on! You have to clean a spray gun out of the package. You should never risk your project with a new gun that has not been cleaned and tested. The instructions call for running lots of solvent through the gun to clean it. I don’t do that. I break the gun down, immerse it in solvent, and clean it with brushes. The key to cleaning the gun is removing the nozzle so you can really flush it out. All these guns come with a wrench that fits the nozzle, but you could break the gun or even your hand before that nozzle will come out. I read somewhere that a heat gun will dissolve the locktite put on the threads at the factory and the nozzle will come right out. It works! I have now removed the nozzles from all of my spray guns, thoroughly cleaned the locktite off the threads, and I have been able to clean them more thoroughly and with less effort than ever before. The one drawback I have observed on the TCP gun is the huge metal cup. TCP is probably marketing this gun to automotive painters who need more material and don’t often have to wrangle the gun into tight spaces. Once I experienced the arm fatigue of that big cup, I went to Home Depot and bought a smaller plastic cup for my TCP gun. You could also use the disposable cups Harbor Freight sells. All that said, I recommend this TCP gun with little reservation. I sure appreciate some of the detailed reviews some other Amazon customers have offered on other products. So, I hope this review has been helpful to some others. By the way, if anyone wants a really expensive vintage Devilbiss siphon feed, I have two of them hanging on the wall of my spray booth collecting dust.

I needed new spray guys for spraying automotive primer, paint and clear coats. Took a chance on these guns and what I’ve found is: The paint gun, regardless of a 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, or 2.0 in my case MUST be completely torn down, stripped and cleaned before even thinking of using. There is some sort of thread sealant on the portion of the brass part of the nozzle of the gun, and it’s truly a pain to clean this out. I have found remnants of metal from when the tips were machined on at least 3 of the 5 spray guns I purchased. After dialing in the guns, I found the 1.3 is fantastic for spraying clear coat. The 1.4 and 1.5 guns are great for base coat materials. My 2.0 gun got blocked up from trying to spray a 0.015 metalflake, however I had too much flake in my intercoat which settled and clogged the gun up. Overall, these guns do their job decently well and for a guy wanting to spray stuff, they will do the job. Only gripe I had was the 1.4 was out of stock, so I bought a second 1.3 gun and a 1.4 tip kit, and just swapped out. Color coding on some of the gun parts makes it nice to ID a clear, base coat or primer gun to keep things separate especially when doing multiple colors on custom work. Decent spray guns for the money. Make sure to clean before use!

1st, look at the price. Tip is too large to do a GREAT job, but if you have a beater that you want to patch up yourself, this is the ticket. Even though the tip is too small for many folks preference for a primer gun, i like it well for this. I found it hard to drop the right amount of base without getting it too thick, but, practice would overcome a lot of that.The clear was just to orange peeled, and i resprayed, but still couldnt match FACTORY peel. However, i have seen cars from factory with as much orange peel, so if you were to do a WHOLE car or project, and budget is a concern, i believe this would work well, but i see it as a throw-away because of parts available, and there are no other size tips for it that i could see. IF more tips ARE available, i would give it one more star. I have a warwick and it more closely matches my cars factory peel, and it has more tip size available making it more versatile, but it cost 9 times as much too.

The tip seal nut that resides just under the trigger always loosens up on its own and is a pain to re-tighten. Aside from that, this gun is fine for primer and some heavy coatings.

Wanted something to shoot latex paint for small wood working projects. This had the biggest nozzle for the best price I came across and had pretty good reviews. Fit and finish seem good and believe it or not it works pretty well with latex paint (I did thin just a bit with flotrol the first time and water the second time, both seemed to work). I’ve never used the high dollar guns before so I can’t compare to them but for the budget minded hobbiest I think this works pretty good. I would however not recommend this for large projects or painting a room type of thing, the pattern is too small and it would take way to long, an airless system would probably be better for that. If you keep it clean I have no reson not to believe it will last, the only improvement would be an even bigger nozzle. I believe this is the biggest they offer though (2.5mm).

When remodeling my house I found a beautiful metallic brown paint from Home Depotfor my living room accent wall. But the specialized roller would leave a least one streak.I went through several gallons of paint to get it right. Home Depot advised me to try using a HVLP sprayer. So I went to Harbor Freight to save some money and bought a Hvlp spayer and that didnt come out looking right. I was thena dvised to rent a commercial sprayer. Well that $120 afternoon rental made the job very quicik n easy but gave the same look as the Harbor Freight Hvlp sprayer gave. I was about to give up but I was checking out Professional Sprayers for Automotive painters and then learned about larger diameter sprayers for metal flake. Those sprayers cost hundreds of dollars and lve spent way to much money already for just one 20 foot living room wall. So I looked on the internet for the lowest priced large diameter metal flake sprayer and found this one Amazon. Well low and behold it work marvelously. It worked so good that sprayed on 3 coats of clear coat on top of it for easy washing and also because they discontinued the paint due to its difficult usability 10 years later the wall is still looks as good ever and it continues to get complements from most of the my visitors who see it. Ive painted many more wall with it over the years.You can purchase different diameters but I only needed the one came with. It lays down non- metallic paint thick enough for 1 and done coats with out running. Its a great bargain and will purchase again because I lost the screw adjustment being to hasty cleaning and transporting. Thats the only problem I ever had with it.

I placed a small O ring under the cup to keep it from leaking. There should be some seal or O ring come with the purchase

As an automotive painter of 11 years, this gun was purchased as I wait for a new Sata to work it’s way through the supply chain. This gun has its deficiencies BUT once you get it setup this gun lays down an excellent finish. I spent about 15 minutes spraying paper taped to the booth wall to dial it in and understand it’s quirks. The nut between the trigger and frame likes to come loose, not a big deal just an annoyance to check before spraying every time. Have shot approx 50 gallons through it and enjoy it.