Brand names Earlex HV5500 Spray Station

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Product Description

The Spray Station 5500 is a semi-pro unit designed for light contractor, serious woodworking and automotive enthusiasts. This HVLP paint spraying unit is ideal for use in the workshop, around the home or on the job site. The professional gun and the powerful turbine make the Spray Station 5500 a perfect tool to achieve that showroom finish on cabinets, furniture and even cars. For contractors, interior or exterior trim, doors, shutters and many other small to medium size jobs can be completed faster using less material in the process. The 5500 includes a 650-Watt turbine that generates 42 CFM and 2.2 PSI, 13-Feet hose and 5.5-Feet power cord. The lightweight Spray Station 5500 features on-board storage for the pro spray gun, hose and cord and includes a carry handle for easy portability. The durable professional spray gun comes complete with a 2.0mm stainless steel tip and needle and a 1 qt. Teflon coated paint container with quick release lever. The pro gun features a Fast "Push N Click" 3 spray pattern changing system, paint volume control dial and a dynamic control action trigger. Complete a multitude of projects with a large variety of materials including thinned latex, lacquers, urethanes, varnishes, oils, shellacs, stains, sealers, enamels, glazes and many more.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8962 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Earlex
• Model: HV5500
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 26.00" h x 12.00" w x 12.00" l,

Features

• Compact, lightweight modern design
• Professional quality gun
• Push-n-click spray pattern adjustment
• Includes only 2.0mm needle
• Easier than ever to get the results you want

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Earlex HV5500 Spray Station 5500 At a Glance: Fast adjustment with a push-and-click three-position external spray pattern changing system One-quart, Teflon coated container for easier loading and cleaning Angled pick-up tube lets you spray overhead or downward Durability and better control with a flow control dial, stainless steel tip and needle On-board storage for the spray gun, a 13-foot air hose and 5.5-foot power cord

The unit comes with a one-quart, wide-mouth paint container and convenient on-board storage for the spray gun, a 13-foot air hose and 5.5-foot power cord. (View larger.)

The powerful 650 watt turbine and better atomization at the tip gives a much easier spraying experience with less overspray. (View larger.)

Semi-pro System
The Earlex 5500 spray station is a powerful HLVP semi-pro unit designed for light contractor jobs, woodworkers, serious DIY’ers and automotive enthusiasts. The portability of the 5500 spray station makes this unit ideal for workshop, home or job site use. Contractors can complete small to medium size jobs like interior or exterior trim, doors, shutters and more, faster using less material in the process.

Power and Precision
The professional metal spray gun and more powerful 650 watt turbine make the 5500 spray station an ideal tool to achieve a quality professional finish on a wide variety of projects. The pro spray gun has a fast push-and-click three-position external spray pattern changing system with from 1-inch to 12-inch fan widths. Just “push and click” to change your spray pattern from vertical to horizontal or round. Easily move around the job site using the 5500 spray station convenient carry handle. The 5500 is ideal for use in many environments where a great finish is required or overspray presents a problem.

What Can Be Sprayed
The 5500 spray station can be used indoors or outdoors for multiple projects. Use the 5500 with many different oil-based and water-based materials including: thinned latex, stains, lacquers, varnishes, sealers, oils, urethanes, shellacs, acrylics and enamels.

What's in the Box
Standard features on the pro spray gun are: a fast push-and-click three-position external spray pattern changing system, paint flow control dial, stainless steel tip and needle and an angled paint pick-up tube for overhead or downward spraying. The one-quart Teflon coated paint container makes cleanup easy. The 5500 also features convenient on-board storage for the spray gun, a 13-foot air hose and 5.5-foot power cord.

Earlex's HV5500 spray station gives you the perfect tool to tackle a variety of interior and exterior spraying tasks like lattice, woodworking projects or home improvement touchups (click each to enlarge).

From the Manufacturer
The Spray Station 5500 is a semi-pro unit designed for light contractor, serious woodworking and automotive enthusiasts. This HVLP paint spraying unit is ideal for use in the workshop, around the home or on the job site. The professional gun and the powerful turbine make the Spray Station 5500 a perfect tool to achieve that showroom finish on cabinets, furniture and even cars. For contractors, interior or exterior trim, doors, shutters and many other small to medium size jobs can be completed faster using less material in the process. The 5500 includes a 650-Watt turbine that generates 42 CFM and 2.2 PSI, 13-Feet hose and 5.5-Feet power cord. The lightweight Spray Station 5500 features on-board storage for the pro spray gun, hose and cord and includes a carry handle for easy portability. The durable professional spray gun comes complete with a 2.0mm stainless steel tip and needle and a 1 qt. Teflon coated paint container with quick release lever. The pro gun features a Fast "Push N Click" 3 spray pattern changing system, paint volume control dial and a dynamic control action trigger. Complete a multitude of projects with a large variety of materials including thinned latex, lacquers, urethanes, varnishes, oils, shellacs, stains, sealers, enamels, glazes and many more.

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

44 of 45 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent Sprayer for Weekend Projects
By Books and Woodworking
This worked perfect the first time I used it. I have never used a sprayer before and so was I was not sure I would have good results. I had heard others say how much trouble they had using sprayers. I read the instructions several times before I used it. I wanted to make sure I understood the controls. I do wood working and to get a smooth finish, I had always used spray cans of lacquer. But spray cans take forever, the over-spray can be overwhelming, the $$$ really add up, and finally it takes forever to do a large project. Spraying with a can just does not give an even look on larger projects. Also I found that the temperature makes a big difference on how well the spray looks. The higher the temperature the more over-spray I seemed to get.

I found that this sprayer solved all the problems mentioned above. I just sprayed a 6 foot high bookcase, 3 shelves, a checker board, a wooden tray, and a wooden box. All in less than 40 minutes. I just kept putting light coats on each. I used a water base polyurethane from Min-wax and the clean up was very easy. I used the 1.5 needle and put on 3 or 4 coats. I did not need to water down the polyurethane 6 each: Minwax Water Base Polycrylic (25555000), just used it right out of the can. I stood the bookcase on its base and found that it was easy to spray the back, sides, top and insides all without having any runs. Had I used spray cans, I would been in the garage all day and exhausted. Also, after an hour, I took everything back inside the house. With the water based polyurethane, there is almost no smell or odor.

This model is probably not a professional unit, but I think that the results are as good as a professional model. If I were to use this every day for long periods of time I would suggest the $800 units. But for my needs, this is a great price and I got great results.

This HVLP technology is great. With water based wood conditioner, stains, and polyurethane the clean up is easy. I am not sure I will ever use a lacquer again.

Also, this model here only comes with 1 needle - the 2.0. Other sellers offer two needles 2.0 and 1.5 for the same price. So be sure to check out how many needles come with your purchase. If you see a cheaper price, it may be because they are only giving you 1 needle and maybe charging for shipping. The lowest price may not be the better deal. I see the needles cost about $40. I bought mine at Woodcraft for $319 - they were having a $40 discount for a few weeks. Mine came with 2 needles. So be sure you know what is in the box.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent HVLP
By J. Little
Have had this unit for about 3 months and use it 3 or 4 times a week for spraying latex paint. Ideal for medium to light duty situations. Use it to spray wooden toys in batches of 50 to 100. Works well with primer and finish coats. I thin latex paint down about 20-25% and works great. Very little overspray. Good uniform coverage. Hose is a friction connection so comes loose once in a while but other than that it is an excellent unit for the money. Am buying a second unit to speed up the process.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent sprayer, for its intended purpose.
By RTM
I bought this gun for an on-site spray of lattice in which there would be too much collateral damage from overspray with my airless sprayer.

Out of the box, it is pretty much good to go immediately. Just add (and thin if necessary) paint, and turn it on. No assembly required. Spray can be changed from vertical fan, to horizontal fan, to a spot, all with the spin of the tip on the heavy duty all-aluminum gun. Turbine is relatively loud (sounds like a small shop-vac) and runs the entire time it's turned on, regardless of whether you're actually shooting paint through the gun. More on this later.

SHOOTING LATEX

This is a situation in which the cheapest paint is best suited, as cheaper latex tends to be much thinner and requires less watering down to make it sprayable. Most latex WILL require thinning to go through this sprayer, even with the larger 2.5MM tip that can be purchased separately. Unthinned, if it even sprays at all, it'll be such a coarse finish with large droplets that it won't be suitable for the majority of applications. Thinned and/or with the larger tip, you'll probably still get some orange-peel effect even in the best of cases. The turbine just doesn't have the juice to push the thicker paint through and atomize it properly. Realistically, this is a weakness of all HVLP sprayers but one with more volume could likely do the job better.

Also of note, when a darker color is thinned it tends to lighten up a bit due to thinning out the colorant. I noticed this when painting a custom made shelf for a center channel speaker in my media room; I intended for the shelf to blend in with the wall so it was painted with the same paint (only thinned and sprayed on the shelf and rolled on the wall), and the shelf is noticeably lighter. This won't be an issue if you aren't putting two differently painted surfaces next to each other and attempting to match them, but it's worth mentioning.

SHOOTING OIL BASED ENAMELS/LACQUERS

This is what HVLP is really meant for. These paints are inherently thinner in viscosity and can be thinned much successfully with less finish degradation. The fine finish tip does a GREAT job. I suppose you COULD do automotive painting with it (they like to use that as a possible use), but being that the turbine runs the entire time you're spraying I'd imagine it'd get overheated pretty quickly and/or lead to premature failure. I sprayed a slightly thinned Rustoleum Enamel through it with a 2.5MM tip (intentionally) to produce a coarse "industrial" finish on a component rack, and it came out GREAT. Looks like one you'd buy for about 1/4 the price.

CLEANUP

Latex: Very easy, just empty the cup (it's coated in Teflon so it empties/cleans easily) and fill it with water, then spray it through. Tip can be removed quickly for cleaning with an included pipe-cleaner type gizmo. One MAJOR advantage over airless, no paint in the hose or in the actual machine itself so it's a breeze.

Oil-based: Tougher than latex, but not bad. Empty cup and add paint thinner to it, then spray it through. Remember what I said about air always going through the gun regardless of whether or not you're spraying? The air comes out around the tip to form the type of spray you've chosen. My first time cleaning after using oil based, I was going to shoot the thinner into a quart sized paint can for re-use (I generally get a couple uses from thinner to keep from excessively disposing it). I was shooting black paint at the time, and when the thinner came out the tip and the air stream hit the liquid in the bottom of the can, it led to a massive black paint thinner volcano all over my arms and face. The only antidote for getting this concoction off skin is acetone, which is fairly uncomfortable. So keep that in mind.

BOTTOM LINE

Beware of the sprayer's limitations when shooting latex paint. It's great for smaller jobs or jobs where you need to shoot many colors in succession as cleanup is a breeze compared with other sprayers. Very lightweight and portable. I'd recommend it for the casual user in a heartbeat.

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Earlex HV5500 Spray Station Reviewed by William Butler on Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:29:04 GMT . Rating: 4