Art & Inspiration vacuum cleaner paint sprayer

anyone actually do this?

pictures?

thanks

 

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/search/673712024/?q=electrolux&o=relevance&c[node]=5
This should be a start, Mike

 

uno mas
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/can-we-paint-a-car-with-a-vacuum-cleaner.1326922/

 

I saw that being done 50 years ago. He was painting a car with an Electrolux and it was raining.

Not good!

Dave

 

I think I had one out in a box that came with a Kirby Vacuum cleaner that someone gave me 40 years ago. They drug out accessories for that thing that filled half of the bed of my 48 at the time. i don't remember what happened to the paint gun though.

 

Seems like a kinda goofy way to go, even if it was done back in the day.
Considering the cheap cost of a compressor, hose and gun these days you can invest in 'tool for the job' for less than 200 bucks and probably get 100 back on resale. There are battery powered and corded 'sprayers' as the latest cheap replacement, too.
I'd consider regular spray cans before a vacuum cleaner. Might as well try to convert a leaf blower!

 

Vacuum cleaners suck

 

Yeah but those old Eletrolux types "blow it out their ass!"

Dave

 

I have used one in the past for fence painting, basically a low pressure sprayer. Never used one for car paint.

 

Do you suppose the paint gun would suck as much as the same amount as the vacuum cleaner?

 

Mom's tank shaped vacuum had the attachment.

one step up from the two guys i saw one day on my walk back from fifth grade.

they had two brushes and a gallon can of house paint. were going over a car changing its color from drab non-descript to baby blue.

i stood there watching in amazement until they were almost finished.

whenever i would see that car drive bye, i would wave and feel a sense of accomplishment.

it was a simpler time.

 

"these days" ain't them days.

if you got nothin', you got nothin' to lose.

 

My T-bucket was painted- not with a vacuum cleaner - but with a low pressure blower unit which was the same diameter as a vacuum cleaner, about 12" long , ran on 240 volts and had about a 1" diameter hose from the blower to a low pressure paint gun same as what came with the vacuum cleaners. Had a strap so you could hang the unit over your shoulder and you dragged the power cord behind you. I bought oil based household enamel from the hardware store and providing you thinned it enough the paint went on OK. Cant remember whether I used enamel thinners or turps to thin the paint. This was back in 1964, I've still got the T and the paint is still on it.

 

My Mom painted one of our barns with a Kirby--this was 45 years ago.

 

see what i mean?

that's the kind of "get 'er done" these youngsters lack.

 

When a bunch of us were teenagers in 1958, one of the guys brought his mother's vacuum down to our barn when she was at work. It had a sprayer attachment for spraying moth-proofing onto clothing. We didn't know anything about paint spraying but primed four cars that afternoon. No surface prep, thinning. Got the vacuum cleaned and back before Mom got home.

 

back in the early 80's I was a service manager at an Electrolux. I used to see the sprayers now and then. Mostly with old trade in's. Never used one. I should have kept a few, just because.

 

Painted a chassis back about 50 years ago with rust oleum primer and top coat with Mom’s Electrolux. Seemed to work pretty well. About 40 years later, it was a pain to sand blast off

 

If you think about it, it was the original High Volume Low Pressure solution!
How do you feel about it now?

 

TIP Tool and Equipment out of Ohio has been selling this type of Spray equipment for years. They call it a "turbine". The make and sell lots of "Basting Cabinets"

 

but you'd be a real 'turkey' to buy one...

 

I have one of those vacuum cleaner paint sprayer setups, bought it at a rummage sale just because I thought it was a neat piece of history, never really considered using it but I'm sure it'd work. I doubt you'd get a lot of pressure and atomization but if you wanted to hose some paint onto something without an air compressor it'd work. Mine has a glass jar as the cup. It's at home right now, if I remember later I'll grab it and post a picture.

 

I remember my father painting his 1940 Plymouth with the vacuum cleaner spray gun. Before he painted the car, it was a dull grey. After painting, it was a dull grey.

 

i think that was the factory color for the vehicle!

 

Yep! Mine from 15 plus years ago.

 

Near as I can recall, in 1958 or so a neighbor friend & I painted his $25 31 model 'A' with a pair of pump bug sprayers from the local Layton Hardware store, I still recall the Black Flag logo on the pump tube & the detachable jar, my right center finger still bears witness to a noticeable crescent scar from the sharp raw edge of that tube from getting too carried away & pulling the plunger completely out of the tube & going forward not realizing it. It was a race to see who would finish their side first .... I obviously lost. Some years earlier another neighbor painted his 47 or so Chevy dirt track car with what I believe was a vinyl lined glove or mitt, probably something sold at the parts stores back then.

 

i can't see it. in the trunk maybe?

 

Flit Gun for the WIN!!!!

thread closed.

 

The reply was about 1940 Plymouths and dull Gray being a Factory color by you. It has had one repaint, but was Gray before too.

 

I had a friend that used one to paint his old Caddy, black and it looked like Alligator skin, not paint, but it held up for years.....