Anyone using the air gunsa hte-s?

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I recently got one and have had some mixed results spraying 2k regular build. Anyone else have an opinion on the gun?
 
What needle/nozzle size? If you have too small a tip 2K urethane isn't going to spray well. I have a 1.8 and 2.0 that I use for primers and they do OK for what they are.
 
What needle/nozzle size? If you have too small a tip 2K urethane isn't going to spray well. I have a 1.8 and 2.0 that I use for primers and they do OK for what they are.
It's a 1.8. I have a 2.0 ordered for it though. I have a supernova for base and clear so I'm not too worried about that kinda stuff for this gun. I'm not sure how this version compares to the older models since this is the impact. Can't even find this model outside of Europe.
 
These are the two I'm referring to.

 
Has Air Gunsa improved their game? I bought one a decade ago and it was not fit even as a primer gun. The build quality was atrocious. At the time, Anest Iwata was marketing them as an inexpensive alternative to Iwata, but the gun I got was nothing like an Iwata at all. It was junk.
 
Has Air Gunsa improved their game? I bought one a decade ago and it was not fit even as a primer gun. The build quality was atrocious. At the time, Anest Iwata was marketing them as an inexpensive alternative to Iwata, but the gun I got was nothing like an Iwata at all. It was junk.
To me it feels quite nice. Far better than the cheap tcp guns. There are aspects of it that feel more solid than my ws400. It doesn't feel quite as nice in the hand, but that's really an unfair comparison. The only thing that bugs me is the spring makes some noise, but that's kinda whatever.
 
Are they still made in Italy?
Mine were. I bought them like four years or so ago. They spray pretty good. Never figured out how to get the cup separated from the gun body, so I break it down with the cup on the body to clean them when needed. One reason why I wouldn't recommend them to anyone. Definitely not an "Iwata" but a step up from uber cheap no name guns. Durability day in day out, in a collision shop, they probably won't last more than a year to two years.
Would I buy them again? Probably not.
 
I had an airgunsa hte2-az3 to use for primer, not sure if it's the same gun. It was in 1.8 and I found it to have quite a small fan. I got rid of it, bought an FLG-5 from the UK and it was night and day a better gun. IMO of course.
 
Bit of an update with this since I got the 2.0 tip. It does do better, But I'm still getting some issues. mainly well spraying flat. Vertically it does great, flat and it gets dry. I'm using the 3m pps system with it so that shouldn't be that big of an issue. It's not the same gun as the hte-2. This is the impact version.
 
Try reducing a little, like 5 percent. I have a different gun, but a little reducer made a nice difference for me.
 
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