Steve@Advance
Well-known Member
Brought the airless paint sprayer home from work today.
First time it's been used in a year or so. Tried to get it going, would not prime. Connected the water hose to force prime it, it finally let go and started pumping water through. Then the gun clogged solid. Even reversing the tip would not clear it. Took the screen out of the gun, it was caked with brown slivers, looked like grass. At first I thought there may have been something in the water hose. I continued flushing it, looked good, but could not get anything through the prime valve.
I got it to prime paint, trying to spray primer on new drywall. What a miserable job! It would not spray more than 3 seconds before clogging. Constantly reversing the tip to clear it. I finally got it painted, but looked horrible, streaked, runs, thin spots, but it's just primer, hoping I can cover it with enough rolled on latex.
Back to the sprayer, I figured out what was clogging it, the last person to use it, one of the employees, used it with oil based stain, failed to clean it out properly. I knew this would happen, he never cleans up anything, never brings back anything, took a month to get the sprayer back...
I now see I will have to completely disassemble and clean it. But is there any way to clean the flaking residue out of the hose? Thinking fill it with lacquer thinner, let it soak a while, try to flush it. Or should I just buy another, save this one for when it gets loaned again?
Thanks!
First time it's been used in a year or so. Tried to get it going, would not prime. Connected the water hose to force prime it, it finally let go and started pumping water through. Then the gun clogged solid. Even reversing the tip would not clear it. Took the screen out of the gun, it was caked with brown slivers, looked like grass. At first I thought there may have been something in the water hose. I continued flushing it, looked good, but could not get anything through the prime valve.
I got it to prime paint, trying to spray primer on new drywall. What a miserable job! It would not spray more than 3 seconds before clogging. Constantly reversing the tip to clear it. I finally got it painted, but looked horrible, streaked, runs, thin spots, but it's just primer, hoping I can cover it with enough rolled on latex.
Back to the sprayer, I figured out what was clogging it, the last person to use it, one of the employees, used it with oil based stain, failed to clean it out properly. I knew this would happen, he never cleans up anything, never brings back anything, took a month to get the sprayer back...
I now see I will have to completely disassemble and clean it. But is there any way to clean the flaking residue out of the hose? Thinking fill it with lacquer thinner, let it soak a while, try to flush it. Or should I just buy another, save this one for when it gets loaned again?
Thanks!