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You ask a Loaded open ended question….
Short answer, yes can spray latex and lacquer.
Lacquer is easy to spray, anything can spray lacquer.
BUT you have a lot to learn about latex as every brand of paint behaves differently.
If you refine your question to exactly which brand/type of latex, you will get better answer(s).
IMHO - Spraying latex using anything but an airless sprayer is royal PITA.
The turbine airflow dries out paint faster, which requires monkeying around with viscosity adjustments or using additives to improve flow out. Each paint requires different settings and adjustments. These magic chemistry modifications based on local weather, coupled with spray gun setup can be frustrating till you gain lots of experience.
With an airless sprayer, you stick the pump in the bucket, screw on proper tip size and spray.
All that said: Clean up on airless system is PITA for small jobs (less than 5 gallon), so I understand why folks want to force a turbine or HVLP sprayer to spray latex. But there are better finish choices, if your primary spray equipment is turbine unit like the Fuji.
For furniture projects suggest you skip the crap latex and use what commercial shop uses; pigmented lacquer, pigmented polyurethane, or pigmented varnish. A turbine sprayer is one of the paint mfg recommended sprayers for WB pigmented top coats on cabinets and furniture.
Cheers!
You ask a Loaded open ended question….
Short answer, yes can spray latex and lacquer.
Lacquer is easy to spray, anything can spray lacquer.
BUT you have a lot to learn about latex as every brand of paint behaves differently.
If you refine your question to exactly which brand/type of latex, you will get better answer(s).
IMHO - Spraying latex using anything but an airless sprayer is royal PITA.
The turbine airflow dries out paint faster, which requires monkeying around with viscosity adjustments or using additives to improve flow out. Each paint requires different settings and adjustments. These magic chemistry modifications based on local weather, coupled with spray gun setup can be frustrating till you gain lots of experience.
With an airless sprayer, you stick the pump in the bucket, screw on proper tip size and spray.
All that said: Clean up on airless system is PITA for small jobs (less than 5 gallon), so I understand why folks want to force a turbine or HVLP sprayer to spray latex. But there are better finish choices, if your primary spray equipment is turbine unit like the Fuji.
For furniture projects suggest you skip the crap latex and use what commercial shop uses; pigmented lacquer, pigmented polyurethane, or pigmented varnish. A turbine sprayer is one of the paint mfg recommended sprayers for WB pigmented top coats on cabinets and furniture.
Cheers!
