Just used this product for the first time on a fairly large deck, fencing, lattice project and it worked beautifully! Couldn't believe how fast it went. I started painting by hand, and thought it would take me all summer. With this sprayer, I had the project done in about an hour and a half. Wonderful! It came apart just like you said and cleaned up very easily. It was so worth the money spent.
You are spot on about the good quality mask - likewise, disposable gloves and protective goggles. Paint has solvents, emulsifiers, fine particulates and stabilisers; it's a soup of potentially toxic chemicals and it surrounds the sprayer person with a suspended aerosol cloud. Also, besides your eyes and lungs, volatile solvents in the cloud can dissolve into the blood and cause liver damage. Your excellent advice is essential to follow. Protecting one's core body systems is quick to do and best bang for the buck. And if you employ a worker for the spray job, please make sure that person is protected too . Likewise with noise protection in other DIY tasks, it's all about being wise BEFORE the act! :)
Great vid! Very informative and excellent safety tips too. I just got one for Fathers Day and am painting my shutters today. Can't wait to see how it goes. If all goes well, maybe I get the deck done next weekend.
Help I bought a used one at a thrift store for $40 no paint container.. I’m learning the assembly of parts but I can’t understand how to put together where the little round white filter. I have to buy the paint container I hope is not expensive. I’m terrify to use it once I get it together. I’m painting ponderosa pine. Wood planks sideways or up and down? My ceiling I don’t know how to avoid painting?Any tips ? Thanks great video one of the best when it comes to explaining how to do it all
Don't know if you'll see this in time to help me, but the box shows that you can spray from one if you need a thinner spray or both of the holes in the front if you want a wider spray. How do you switch between the one and the two? I can't see any settings or switches other than the stain and paint lever on the back.
I had two days to put two coats of Thompson's Clear Water Seal on the cedar fence that I had put up around my house. I did a very small section of the fence by hand. After a few hours I went to purchase a sprayer at Home Depot. I went to the paint section and they suggested I buy this product. I took this product home and began using it, after about 45 minutes it started smoking, I unplugged it and I did some more fence by hand feeling defeated and frustrated. After sometime, I picked myself up, I went back to Home Depot and exchanged it for a new one. I went back home feeling really happy and just charged up, thinking yes I'm going to get it done. However, after 30 seconds of using the sprayer the man in the video is talking about, it simply did not work any longer and I was pissed with sweat running down all over my body. I went back to Home Depot a second time and rented a paint sprayer and used it to stain 250 feet worth of fence in four hours, it cost me a pretty penny and in the end I was exhausted. I encourage you to rent a paint sprayer from Home Depot and use it. Do not tell them what you're going to use it for because they will tell you hell no. When done, be sure to clean it the way they tell you to clean it. Use s very soapy rag to wash off the hose and the outside of the machine. Be sure to return it the way they gave it to you. It's very expensive to rent, but it's a time saver. You may need to do some paint prep work and I would suggest doing that before you actually rent the paint sprayer. Again, I did not use it for paint, I used it for Thompson's clear water seal
I'm guessing you didn't leave it sit upside down for an hour or so with a bit of oil in BOTH the intake and return ports - They work FINE if they are lubed - I didn't think to oil a new one and it painted the ceiling and quit - the plastic end on the power valve had melted. Oiled it up and it worked great - melted tip and all . . . PS - I have 6 of these now . . right gun for the right job.
Thank you. I still have mine and just started using my new one this year. they run pretty good, every once in a while they get tempermental but usually a good cleaning gets the problem worked out.
Thx for your videos , I have a question I have this same sprayer but whatever I was doing I neglected to clean mine about a year ago ,do you have any ideas how to clean it some parts are stuck on very strong, I hope you can make a video of this , thx again
Use acetone in a large jar that the parts can fit in. Do NOT leave the strainer or the pressure valve/spring in the acetone very long - the acetone swells them up - everything else si OK for overnight. The acetone will eventually eat away almost anything that is coagulated. Welders tip cleaners work for small holes - I also use dental pick - DON'T use it to try cleaning the tip hole - its ceramic and will shatter . . .
+Bird Aguilar Mine is pretty straight forward, you may be using a slightly different model but the reason there is a paint and stain selection is that stain tends to be thinner than paint (more watery) so what I would do is just adjust the setting until what you are spraying is covering nicely, if you are getting blobs or feel that it's not right adjust the switch a bit and see if that corrects your problem. Try this on your next paint project and let me know if that solves it for you.
+Screen playa (Screenplaya) Thank you and no I have not seen any accessories for this. By extension nozzle are you talking about the nozzle for spraying the paint or for hooking it up to a bucket for continuous flow?
The Burb Billy I mean on the spraying end. I am thinking of using it to spray sealant onto the low roof of my sunroom,without stepping on the roof. To do that, I would need to reach a few feet beyond arm's length.
+Screen playa (Screenplaya) I havent seen anything like that for these. You could call wagner directly and see if they have something that will work for you. If your sunroom is a metal roof and your worried about falling though you may be able to put a board up there that spans across the beams and gives you an area to work off of, spread your body weight out a bit, I don't know the situation but I've done that in the past on the metal roofs with a low low pitch
My review: This sprayer is manufactured to work with water base acrylic latex, oil & stains only, and I must say that after cleaning latex acrylic which is very easy, I will not use this sprayer with oil paint because oil paint is a pain to clean up. Back to review: The quart (up to fill line)., only lasts 5 minutes and you must reload. By the 5th re-load, it clogs which you must take apart to unplug the super tiny vent hole located on pump housing, (use a toothpick)., to unclog or it will not work at all. So, in order to get to this tiny vent hole you literally have to take apart: material container & suction tube. Be warned, you will get material on your hands and anything you touch- so make sure you set sprayer on plastic drop cloth. If after you put back together sprayer continues to hum & won't spray then you must take completely apart by uncrewing spray tip, atomizer valve, lock nut, slide out the pump housing to open the suction tube with filter (to clean filter)., you'll get paint all over the sprayer assembly (yellow unit) so remove completely from pump housing and set aside. This clean up is very messy so I do not recommend where satins, eggshell, semigloss or gloss finishes are called for unless you have a second spare sprayer to pick up immediately where you left off or job will not look uniform. Any material with a slight bit of shine fact is surface must be covered corner to corner while paint is wet....or you will end with holidays here and there. Problem which needs modification; the suction tube with filter after throughly cleaned and lubricated got stuck on me three times which was very frustrating when clock is ticking & you have a deadline to meet. The suction tube should be made out of a light metal or aluminum because the plastic even if lubricated as you turn to unlock should release and it didn't so no I do not recommend WD-40 that caused my problem -- I used gun lube instead as it needs viscosity to turn & open. Solution: this buy was $99.00 and you bought 2 - with the various clean ups, wasted time trying to release the suction tube & filter do to clogging & short lapse time reloads.... for $300 more a used Titan 440I or Graco sprayer from Sherwin Williams I would have finished my parents house in one day. Try spraying a metal fascia & soffit around a 4 bdrm house, windy yet sunny day in FL hmmmm! and btw for every clogging while you're at it wipe down tip good and oil.
Wanda I hear what you are saying and I have had some of these same problems when I pushed this sprayer on jobs it wasn't meant for. This is not a sprayer to do a house with, it's meant for small jobs. I used it on decks and larger fences which in my opinion was probably pushing the limit with it. The cleaning procedure is fairly easy once you get the hang of it but I it's normal to expect to get some paint on you when cleaning up your tools. A large job (like a house) requires a higher end sprayer and yes, spending the money on one is worth it for those types of jobs. That said... I have run into the clog, reclog thing enough with this sprayer that I am thinking of doing another review to cover that, I want to contact the company first and see if they have any input that may help me solve it before I blast them though. Appreciate the feedback and thought out post, sorry you had such a tough time on your project. BurbBilly
The Burb Billy I bought sprayer for a small job which is priming and painting the metal fascia and soffit of my parents home "that is small." Just sharing integrity facts: Where a professional paint sprayer helps is to speed the process of painting to finish a job in one day. Although a painter saves time, does not help an owner money wise as you cover less square footage with a sprayer 150-200sf (depending on gun tip) a gallon vs 350-400sf by roller -so when comparing premium paint on or about$59.00- a gallon reasonably priced can easily get quite expensive. Do you do reviews for Wagner or other companies?
Helpful. Thanks. Have you used the remote suction hose to draw paint straight from the can. The Plus unit doesn't come with it but it is available for it.
I have not used that but I could see where it would be very helpful. The thing is though these are a low end sprayer and I'm thinking if you ran it non stop out of a five gallon bucket you might run into some early burn out problems. Just a thought. I try and use this for my small projects and to help me with the hard to paint things on decks..like lattice and rails
You have to watch the mist, if you use this inside without proper protective equipment you can damage your lungs. You can buy a respirator at home depot that should work with mist paint but it needs to be a type rated for this, not a mask.
oil will be a mess to clean up, where I live you can't really get oil by the gallon anymore unless it's primer too many EPA regulations I have only run latex based
I used latex only, didn't run oil in it, would imagine it would be harder to clean up but don't see a reason why it wouldn't spray oil. Make sure you wear proper breathing protection if you do try an run oil in it.
I'll tell the customer. "I'm a tough hombre but I gotta git a quick surgery on my lungs, git a transplant actually, and when I come to I'll knock this off pronto nex day ! "
Patricio Rincon Es SUPER RUIDOSA y a cada 5 min hay que llenar el quarto. Despues de 5 veces que llenas y esprallas se tapa y tienes que remover varios componentes para destapar o limpiar filtro. Se hace un reguero y la parte de plastico donde esta el filtro se atora tienes que usar lubrucante con viscocidad para que afloje. No la recomiendo para trabajos medianos a grandes si la aplicación llama para material con brillo o poco a menos que tengas una segunda esprayadora por esos materiales se trabajan mientras estan mojados para termino uniforme. Esta pesa unos 5kg llama-so para hacer techos.... un poco pesadita.
