HVLP, $80 bucks
Touch up, $30 bucks
26 gallon, belt drive, cast iron twin cylinder compressor. $379 bucks.
Hose, connectors, line dryer, about an extra $40 bucks.
$379
$ 80
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$529 dollars
You guys spending thousands of dollars for this crap are nuts. For a little over five Bennys you have the whole bulletproof setup. No hype, no exagerated costs. It's all the same $h!t.
If you have a spray booth then you already have a compressor and all you have to do is tee off of that. More savings right there. Just don't use both at the same time or there won't be enough volume for the booth during its cycle.