I bought this kit earlier in the year when I started work on my Challenger. I had used a Harbor Freight cheapie hvlp set up on some bodywork on my kid's Jeeps and they turned out okay. When we did some work on my son's car, I noticed some challenges in getting the clear to lay down nice and flat so I decided I wanted to upgrade before I got into my Dodge.
I wanted to have a wider range of tips and access to spare parts which is why I started looking at the HF Black Widow line and the Eastwood offerings. HF does offer some spare and rebuild parts, but they aren't alway sin stores and may have to be ordered on line. If I'm going to do that, then Eastwood becomes competitive. Eastwood does have a range of guns from mid range to high end. Picked up the Eastwood kit because of the support I've had from them with other products (I have their mig welder and plasma cutter also) the availability of replacements parts, and I liked the packaging of keeping these all contained in a case together with spare parts. I did spring for the HF disposable cup system and appropriate adapters to mate to the Eastwood guns. The ability to throw out a liner instead of cleaning a cup is really convenient and saves a lot of solvent and rags.
Overall easy to use. As adjustable as any other mid-range gun out there for pressure, volume, and fan. Took my some fiddling with all of these to get things where I was comfortable working with it. THer are tons of videos out there with tis and tricks to using them. I used the 2.0 on epoxy primer, 1.7 on base coat, and 1.3 on clear coat, so it was great having all those in the kit. I didn't use the detail gun yet, but can see that making small areas and touchups easier than messing with a bigger gun.
First time out of the gate with the primer, I didn't get the cup liner and lid put together correctly, so I dumped epoxy all over the place when I inverted it. Since it was all mixed, I went ahead and sprayed the car, then cleaned everything up. I was impressed that the exterior of the gun cleaned up easily with mess on it and it didn't ruin the factory finish on them. Breakdown and clean-up was straightforward and typical. They do provide wrenches and brushes in the kit, which is nice.
Base and clear coats went down much easier after paying closer attention to the liner mounting and adjusting the patterns. I didn't completely strip down the engine bay I was painting, so I had some gymnastic getting into some of the tighter spots. Despite some awkward angles, it kept laying down coating. The set-up isn't exactly compact, but it does seems slightly smaller than an old siphon system.
Results are not bad. I'll certainly keep moving forward on the effort with these.
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