Questions about Iwata’s vs Sata

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  • ryan brown
    February 14, 2010 at 8:07 am #19550

    It might take 25 psi, depends on your air source, fittings, air line length, and type and quality of the regulator. If everything is as it should be, no I would never spray base at 25 psi. Especially with the silver aircap. It overatomizes at the recommended air pressure, I can’t imagine upping it 9 pounds.

    To be honest I don’t use a regulator on the gun. I used a test aircap and set the pressure at the wall diaphragm regulator. I use 7-8 psi at the head for spot repairs and 9-10 for large jobs.

    I can take two different regulators and have a 4-5 psi difference to get 10 psi at the tip. I really don’t trust them anymore. thats why it is hard to give you a psi to use, to many variables. When testing the aircap gauge every regulator I owned had a different psi to reach 10 at the cap. The only gun that was accurate was a Sata NR3000 digital. With a test cap at 29 psi it produced 10 psi at the head.

    David Clark
    February 14, 2010 at 9:46 am #19552

    [b]Papipab wrote:[/b]
    [quote]Well the office personal at the shop haven’t notice some of my cloudy Iwata jobs even with me pointing it out. But I don’t want to question the experience of the painters on this site that have been painting longer than I have.I think there has to be something I’m doing wrong because I have spray some flawless metallics with the lvx but it takes me some work.

    By the way my jobber work today and brought me the ws400 clear but what number is the 3m pps number for them is it the same as the lph400[/quote]

    I doubt you are doing something wrong if you are getting good results with the Sata. Im sure the Iwata LVX could be a great gun in the hands of the right person but its A gun that takes more work and patients than the sata. I just dont have the finness to get a perfect job out of it every time.

    Pablo Claros
    February 14, 2010 at 9:10 pm #19559

    Yeah at my shop we are a production quality shop :rofl

    So they want it perfect and quick.Keeping booth time short is mandatory there. :cens

    Pablo Claros
    February 14, 2010 at 9:18 pm #19561

    Yeah at my shop we are a production quality shop :rofl

    So they want it perfect and quick.Keeping booth time short is mandatory there. :cens

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