BIG WARNING

I was flipping a house, I had a choice between this and a Fuji which is an entirely different type of sprayer with an entirely different targeted audience. The project I was doing, it was leaning more toward the airless sprayer so I decided to get a nice one. I asked around a few paint forums about rather or not this was good for cabinets and was told it does a fantastic, professional job. The reason why I asked is because I saw a youtuber doing it but its hard to tell final results when they white wash the living F out of the video with filters.. long story short it does not. After buying it and after saying I was doing everything right, what should I do, the VERY SAME moderator that told me its fantastic for cabinets told me it's not meant for cabinets at all and after quoting him, the post was locked and then deleted.

These are meant clearly for things like walls, outdoor furniture where a silky smooth finish isnt necessary. Even with good tips and having additives to the paint for auto leveling, it still will not give you the same finish as an HVLP. This should be a no brainer but there are people that seem to push this product that it can do all of those things to only say AFTER you buy it that no, clearly it cant!

My strong suggestion if you are a DIY'er, even if you are flipping a house to get an HVLP unless you are painting an entire exterior of the house yourself then yeah you save time so the product does absolutely pay for itself. The major issue with these is the cleanup time is extremely unfortunate and not remotely close to an HVLP, it takes a really long time to clean up and its frankly messy.

There are people that will say "no, it actually takes me 10 seconds to clean it out!!" and "it can paint anything, even a car!" shills will be shills, just use common sense that dictates that airless sprayers have their area in the market and HVLP have theirs. As a woodworker and a DIY'er that'd like super smooth cabinets, I really really wish that $400'ish would have gone toward a nice HVLP instead. The Graco was able to do cabinet doors but they werent smooth even after spending lots and lots of time with the suggested additives (by the way this isnt rocket science either, it just simply is not made for it even when I changed out the tip).

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No matter what people tell you, these are much closer to one trick ponies than an HVLP that can do many jobs. Its sole purpose is to apply paint fast and even but not so even if gives an ultra smooth finish that an HVLP can easily do even if its "hobby" grade.

Graco ProX19 Cart Airless Sprayer $509

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