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| | | | Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2001 Posts: 438 | Please inform a rookie what the pro's do for gun cleanup. I am using a HVLP gun with gravity feed. It seems no matter how thorough a job I think I am doing I have gun issues after 3-4 time of using the gun. Thanks.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle."-Abraham Lincoln
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 428 | I always take my guns completely apart after painting. Take off the cup. Throw the air cap and fluid tip in a cup of laquer thinner. Remove the needle and wipe it clean with thinner and a rag and relube it. Clean the gun passages with brushes, tooth picks, Q-tips, etc, until no paint residue remains. Do the same with the cap and tip. Reassemble and shoot a little clean thinner through it. Maybe a little overkill, but I'm just a hobby painter and I've got too much money tied up in my guns. Plus I've never had a problem so far, knock on wood. Also keep an eye on the fluid tip gasket inside the gun and make sure it's in good shape.
Bob | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 127 | 49bourbon, you need to clean your gun realllllly good after each time you use it, especially before spraying any kind of base or clearcoats.. It's a pain in the butt I know! I HATE cleaning them. I'm tempted to hire someone to come over after I spray each time to clean my gun!  (im kidding)
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 127 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 127 | Also, go to your local paint store and buy a paint cleaning kit.. they're like a few bucks and it includes filters for your gun.
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 190 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 190 | I agree with Brjr51, clean gun is a must. If you are a home painter ask your paint shop for the "hottest gun cleaning thinner" they have. Try not to get it on your skin, as it will burn like the dickens. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 339 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 339 | The most important is to "back flush" Your
spray gun to clean it...That means hold Your finger
over the aircap, hold the trigger open and allow the
thinner to flush out all of the passages...This is the way to keep Your gun spraying clean...the outside of the gun can be cleaned with a brush and
thinner...then on a monthly basis, its time to take out the needle, install new gaskets,ect...good luck.
BB | | | | | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 Member | | Member Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 990 | Even better is the 3M PPS system which allows you to use disposable bladders in a gravity feed gun and paint in every direction! Look it up - its quite nice and clean up goes down to about 10 minutes with it. I have been using it on my past few projects and if you are going to do any painting for more than one vehicle it is well worth consideration. I'll never use anything else. Btw it wouldn't work on my chump HF HVLP gun, but I got a Debliss finish line III and my paint jobs have never looked better. Check out my next post. | | |
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