Spray equipment an the modern paint shop - an overview of the most popular liquid spray equipment types in use today

摘要

The modern spray finishing shop, through the combined pressures and requirements of cost effectiveness, environmental legislation and health and safety, walks an increasingly difficult path. The decisions made by its staff and management will influence the way in which the final customer sees the product as well as contributing heavily towards the overall cost of manufacture. Most spray shops still, despite public misconception, have more people than automatic machines in them, and manual equipment sales still greatly outstrips the quantity of automatic sprayguns sold per annum. Let's look at the various equipment types and see how the modern finishing line should be influenced by their capabilities. There are three distinct families of sprayguns available: air atomising, high pressure (HP) and electrostatic. Looking first at air atomising, it can itself be broken down into three sub-sections.