new Caswell gun

[chromeitout]

The new adjustable gun itself appears to be pretty much the same as the other hobby gun just with a new adjustable power supply. Is this correct?

[Banditperformance]

Yup. But, it's the only "hobby" gun out there with adjustable voltage. ANd it has the highest voltage too. More voltage = better powder attraction when doing large area's or multiple coats

[chromeitout]

Understood. The reason I asked was not to "down" the new gun but just to clarify some of the posted problems with it. My hobby gun works great and the fact that the new one is built like it is a huge plus in my book. I'll be ordering one shortly and am looking forward to more power for the 2 and 3 coat jobs (which is nearly all of them, lol).

[Banditperformance]

Ya I just got my Caswell adjustable, and I got to say, I love it. Only sprayed 1 thing so far, but even at it's lowest voltage, it kicks royal hinny on that eastcrap gun I got. A little harder to clean, with having to unscrew the diffuser tip and all, but, atleast the diffuser tip acctually stays in place. The HotCrap gun I have, broke right away, and the "performance" diffuser, the whole for the electrode rod is to big, got to hold it on the electrode with 2 ty-wraps. Can you belive it.

I am thinking about trying to find a high voltage plug, (me being an electrician and all) so one could use 1 power supply, and just connect different gun's for different powders to it. Like one gun for color, one for clears and candy's. No cleaning between coats. I allways loose track of oven time because I am cleaning the gun, getting ready fro the next coat.

[chromeitout]

If you come up with a plug, post it and I'm sure some of us will follow you (I know I will).

[bzer1]

Originally Posted by Banditperformance

I allways loose track of oven time because I am cleaning the gun, getting ready fro the next coat.

Bandit,

I had the same problem, so I went to Wal-Mart and picked up a cheap digital timer with alarm. It's stuck right on my oven door and It really comes in handy, when I'm multi tasking. I set it for the aproximate first temp reading then reset it for the cure. It works every time. It cost me about $6 and has really come in handy. I've worked in shops my entire adult life and I've always noticed that every shop that has a solid work flow setup is successful. This is especially true if you're a one man show.

[Banditperformance]

Ya, good idea Bzer1 My oven does have a run timer on it. I set it for bake time after flow out. But ususally, I screw up and forget to check for when it flow's out LOL. I built the timer into the circutry so when I get a firecall(I'm a voulenteer firefighter) in the middle of a bake, the elements will power off when it's finished, and hopefully not totally wreck the finish. Although the oven keeps heat for so long, that I imagine it will overbake if it ever happens.

[sdold]

Does anyone know if the new gun uses a bigger diameter high-voltage cable than the old gun?

[sdold]

Anyone know if the new gun uses a bigger diameter cable for the high-voltage than the old gun?

[FigureLLC]

looked no different to me. as far as i remember, the only perceivable differences were color and the knob on the back of the adjustable one.