How to clean an HVLP spray gun??

George Jets said
Not sure where the people missed the boat here?

My Binks model 7 Spray guns I take apart, pour 1" of automotive paint stripper into the cup (aviation stripper) and put all the spray gun parts in there to soak for a half hour.

Brush on the stripper to the Spray Gun body and internal paint ports.

After all paint has lifted off after brushing with a fine paint brush, rinse off all the parts with water, and blow dry with compressed air.

Reassemble all the parts and spray lacquer thinner through the gun for the final spray test.

Pefect Spray Pattern every time. Clean as can be.

I have spray guns that are 45 years old and spray perfect patterns to this day.

Just need to strip them clean from time to time.

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Yeah, I think my Binks #7 is at least that old and it still works perfect. I've always cleaned every spec of paint out of it after each use because back then that was about the most expensive gun you could buy. I like the HVLP guns because of less over spray and fumes floating in the air. I used to have over spray everywhere in my garage with the Binks gun but it was and still is flawless. When I was shooting locomotives for the railroad we had two pans, one with lacquer thinner and one with paint thinner for cleaning guns and equipment. They were never marked so we'd take a sniff to tell which was which. My wife says that explains a lot. Lol