HVLP Spray Gun Buying Guide

Have a spray gun already and not sure which one it is? Use Fuji Spray's Spray Gun Identification Guide.

Every Fuji turbine spray gun does the same job. What separates them is where the paint cup hangs, and that one difference decides how much material you carry, where you can point the gun, and how it feels in your hand after an hour.

Bottom-feed — the cup hangs beneath the gun and material is drawn up into the airstream. Fuji's T70 and M-Model 7001 are bottom-feed guns.

• Carries the most material — a full quart on the standard cup, so far fewer stops to refill on a big job.
• Well balanced in the hand, with the weight sitting under your grip rather than on top of it.
• Best for large flat work: cabinet doors, panelled walls, fences, decks, anything where you are covering ground.
• Struggles pointing steeply upward, and needs a small amount of material left in the cup to keep the pick-up tube covered.

Gravity-feed — the cup sits on top and material simply falls into the gun. Fuji's T75G and M-Model 7002G are gravity-feed guns.

• Uses nearly all the material in the cup, which matters when the finish is expensive.
• Easier and quicker to clean, with no pick-up tube and less to strip down between colours.
• Better at low pressure and better for fine control, which is why cabinet and furniture finishers tend to prefer it.
• Smaller cups, so more refills on a big job, and the cup on top can block your sightline on detailed work.

Side-mounted gravity-feed — the G-XPC puts a swivelling cup on the side of the gun. It is still gravity-fed, but the cup is out of your line of sight.

• Clear view of the workpiece, which is the main reason people choose it.
• The cup swivels, so you can spray in almost any orientation — including upward at ceilings and into awkward corners.
• Compact and low-profile, easy to get into tight spaces.
• Comes with a 1.4 mm air cap set as standard rather than the 1.3 mm on the T-Models.

A quick way to decide

• Covering large areas and refilling is the annoyance → bottom-feed
• Fine finishing, expensive materials, frequent colour changes → gravity-feed
• Awkward angles, overhead work, or you need to see exactly what you are doing → side-mounted

Cup sizes are not fixed. Whichever feed style you pick, Fuji makes a range of cups for it — from 3 oz for small-batch and specialty work right up to 1000cc gravity and a full quart bottom-feed, plus Teflon-coated and chemical-resistant options. There is even an adapter that converts an M-Model bottom-feed gun to gravity. If you have an unusual application — chocolate, sunless tanning, artists' inks, anything where the standard cup is wrong — get in touch and we will work out what is possible.

Feed style narrows the field. This picks the gun. All three run on any Fuji turbine, and all three lay down excellent work — you are choosing on fan control, air cap range, price and access.

• Most people, most work → T-Model
• Budget matters, or it is a second gun → M-Model
• Overhead, awkward angles, or you need to see the work → G-XPC
• Heavy latex, texture or high-build primer → T-Model, the only family that takes a 2.5 mm air cap

The T-Model is what ships on most Fuji systems and what most people should buy. The T70 is bottom-feed with a 1 qt cup; the T75G is gravity-feed with a 600cc nylon cup. Same gun otherwise.

• U.S. Patented side-mounted Fan Pattern Control. Unique to Fuji. Adjusts the fan from circular to wide, and sits where your fingers already are rather than making you reach around the gun.
• The widest air cap range Fuji offers — 0.8 mm to 2.5 mm, seven sizes. Only the T-Model reaches 2.5 mm, which matters for heavy latex, texture and high-build primers.
• Non-bleed, so air only flows when you pull the trigger.
• Stay-cool ergonomic handle, and it strips down quickly for cleaning.
• Ships with a 1.3 mm air cap set.
• Fully rebuildable. A rebuild kit brings a tired gun back to as-new, which is why a T-Model will outlast several turbines.

The M-Model is the gun that comes with the Semi-PRO 2 and the least expensive way into a genuine Fuji gun. The 7001 is bottom-feed with a 1 qt cup; the 7002G is gravity-feed with a 400cc aluminium cup.

• Also non-bleed, with a dedicated fan pattern control for adjusting wide to narrow.
• Noticeably less expensive than a T-Model, which makes it a sensible second gun to keep a second colour loaded.
• Air caps run 0.8 mm to 2.0 mm, six sizes. No 2.5 mm, so the heaviest materials are out of range.
• Ships with a 1.3 mm air cap set.
• A U-tube conversion cup turns a bottom-feed 7001 into a 400cc gravity gun, so you are not locked into the feed style you bought — see M-Model parts.

The G-XPC puts a swivelling 400cc cup on the side of the gun. It is still gravity-fed, but nothing sits in your line of sight.

• The cup swivels, so you can spray at almost any angle — including upward at ceilings and into corners — without the cup fighting you.
• Clear view of the workpiece. This is the main reason people choose it.
• Compact and low-profile, the easiest of the three in tight or awkward spaces.
• Ships with a 1.4 mm air cap set rather than 1.3 mm.
• Air caps run 0.7 mm to 2.2 mm, five sizes.

Buy it for what it does, not as a rung on a ladder. If most of your work is flat and in front of you, a T-Model is the better gun. If you are spraying overhead, inside cabinets, or anything where seeing the surface is the hard part, nothing else in the range comes close.

Cup capacity follows from feed style, but it is not fixed — and it is the spec people wish they had thought about halfway through a set of cabinet doors.

What each gun ships with

• T70 (bottom-feed) — 1 qt / 1000cc aluminium
• T75G (gravity) — 600cc nylon
• M-Model 7001 (bottom-feed) — 1 qt / 1000cc aluminium
• M-Model 7002G (gravity) — 400cc aluminium
• G-XPC (side-mounted gravity) — 400cc aluminium

Bigger is not automatically better

A full quart of finish is roughly two pounds hanging off your gun, and you feel it in your wrist and shoulder long before the cup runs dry. On detailed work — spindles, trim, small furniture — a smaller cup is genuinely nicer to use, and you are unlikely to empty a quart before the job is done anyway.

The rule of thumb: match the cup to the size of the piece, not to the size of the job. Ten cabinet doors sprayed one at a time do not need a quart in the cup.

You can change it

Cup size is not locked to the gun you bought. Fuji makes a range for each:

• T75G — 3 oz, 400cc, 600cc aluminium or nylon, and 1000cc
• G-XPC — 3 oz, 400cc, 600cc
• T70 and M-Model bottom-feed — the standard 1 qt, a Teflon-coated 1 qt for sticky materials, and 250cc cups for small batches
• M-Model 7001 — a U-tube conversion turns it into a 400cc gravity gun

There are also disposable liners for the 1 qt and 2 qt cups, which turn a colour change into a thirty-second job, and chemical-resistant gaskets for aggressive materials.

Specialty work

The 3 oz cups exist for a reason. Chocolate, sunless tanning, artists' inks, touch-up, small-batch colour matching — anywhere the material is expensive, the batch is tiny, or you cannot leave it sitting in a cup. If you have an application like that, get in touch and we will work out which cup and air cap combination suits it. Fuji Spray makes it possible.

The 9622 Touch-Up gun is not a smaller version of the others — it is a different tool for a different job, and it runs on the same Fuji turbine you already own.

What it is for

• Repairs and blend-ins where a full-size gun would cover far more than you want it to
• Spindles, rails, chair legs, carvings and mouldings — anywhere a wide fan is wasted
• Small parts, samples and colour matching
• Getting into corners, insides of cabinets and boxes, and awkward recesses
• Artists' work, dyes and inks

Why it works where a full-size gun does not

It ships with a 1.0 mm air cap set rather than the 1.3 mm on the T-Model and M-Model, and produces a much smaller pattern. On detail work that means less overspray, less masking, and less material wasted covering surfaces you never intended to hit.

It is also light and small, which matters when you are working close to the piece for an extended period.

When to buy one

Rarely as a first gun. Almost always as a second.

Most people buy a Touch-Up gun after they have been spraying for a while and have run into the same frustration a few times — reaching for a full-size gun to do a five-minute repair, then spending twenty minutes cleaning it. It is one of the least expensive guns Fuji makes, and it saves its cost quickly in cleaning time alone.

It is also a sensible companion to a turbine-only purchase: if you already own a T70 or T75G for general work, adding a Touch-Up gun gives you two guns and one turbine, with a colour or a finish loaded in each.

Worth knowing

The Touch-Up gun uses its own air cap sets rather than the T-Model or M-Model range, so plan for that if you want more than one size.

Every Fuji gun comes with an air cap set fitted, and you can swap sizes later to suit the material.

• T-Model (T70, T75G) — ships 1.3 mm, available 0.8 to 2.5 mm
• M-Model (7001, 7002G) — ships 1.3 mm, available 0.8 to 2.0 mm
• G-XPC — ships 1.4 mm, available 0.7 to 2.2 mm
• Touch-Up — ships 1.0 mm

Two things worth knowing before you choose a gun. The T-Model is the only one that reaches 2.5 mm, which matters if you spray heavy latex, texture or high-build primer. And the three ranges are not interchangeable — a T-Model cap will not fit an M-Model or a G-XPC, so check which gun you own before ordering.

Choosing the right size for your material is a subject in itself. Our air cap size guide covers it.