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Spray Gun Tips – Adjustments and Techniques – 6 Videos

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I am in the process of creating a video series for spray guns.  If you are looking for a few tips for adjusting your spray gun and spraying techniques, I have several videos below that will help you.

Choosing The Right Spray Gun For The Job

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This video covers a few of the basics for selecting a spray gun for the job. Learn about the different fluid and needle sizes and which one will work best for the product you are spraying.

Setting The Air Pressure

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This video covers how to set the air pressure on your spray gun.  This is a very important setting, as if affects orange peel, dry spray, striping and more.

How To Spray Hard Angles

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This is a quick tip when using the 3M PPS cups.

What Causes A Bumpy Texture and How To Eliminate It

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This video is an answer to a question that I had on YouTube.  This video covers what causes a dry bumpy texture, what to do if you have it, and how to eliminate it.

Paint Mottling

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This is an answer to a question about mottling.  This video covers what mottling is and how to avoid it.

Candy and Tri-Coats

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This video provides an explanation of what tri-coats are and how to match a tri-coat on a car.

I have more spray gun adjustment and technique videos coming soon, so check back.

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How To Paint Stripes and Two Tone A Car

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In this video tutorial we are going to show you how to paint stripes on a car. This is basically a two-tone with a stripe in the middle. There are several different ways to achieve this, but this is one of the easier ways in my opinion.

The thing you must be careful when using this method is colors that are going to be painted on top of the color underneath. If the top colors are translucent (colors with little pigment or color) will not hide the underlying color. You may still be able to see a hint of the base color. Paints with high metallic, such as silvers, blues, etc. are the colors to be concerned about.

On this car in the video, the color red was a high hiding color, so we painted straight over the dark purple. However, the top color being silver, we mixed a high pigment color the same shade as the sealer a sprayed a coat where the overspray from the other colors on the car. This eliminated the issue of the silver not completely hiding or covering the darker colors underneath.

I wanted to expand on that issue. The rest is explained in the video.

5 Tips To Clean a Spray Gun With Only 2 oz. of Cleaning Thinner

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This year the EPA enforced the 6H regulation, which required paint technicians to develop a way to clean their spray guns without spraying any of the thinner into the air. The purpose of this restriction is to reduce them amount of VOCs that are released into the environment.

In this video, I am demonstrating to the students how to clean a paint gun without using oar pressure to spray the thinner through the paint gun.

We found that a spray bottle with cleaning thinner work well for this. Here are the steps to hand clean a paint gun, while only using 2 oz. of cleaning thinner.

Tips

1. Pour remaining material in approved storage container or recycle system.
2. Press the fluid trigger and spray thinner through the gun using a spray bottle. If you are using a traditional cup, spray the sidewalls of the cup first. Have a container available for the waster thinner to gather.
3. One the stream is clear, take the fluid nozzle of and clean the nozzle and tip.
4. Spray thinner on the gun and clean with a towel to remove any final material.
5. Screw the nozzle back onto the gun and blow gun with compressed air to dry and assure that it is clean and ready for storage.

That is it! It only take a minute or two and use less than 2 oz of thinner. If cleaning a traditional cup, it may take slightly more cleaning thinner.

Minimal time and thinner used, and no VOCs sprayed into the environment.