John Bolding
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 281
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 Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: Cleanup on pressure feed pots and remote cups |
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Here's how it's done with just a LITTLE thinner, remove the air nozzle, put a pint(or less) of thinner in the container, restrict the atomizing air to zero ,
raise fluid pressure to 20 or so. TILT the container so that when you pull the trigger only air comes out the fluid nozzle. With the trigger continually pulled, MOMENTARILY allow the tube to pick up a little fluid, it will mix with the air moving thru the hose and gun .After 7-8 cycles of these 1/2 second shots of thinner the hoses will be clean and you can use the rest to squirt on the air nozzle.
This trick can also be used on suction equipment except you have to leave on the air nozzle.
What happens when you have solid solvent is laminar flow, Moving real fast in the center but slow on the edge where the paint is attached to the hose wall. When you have a mist of solvent moving thru it is very turbulent.
Everybody send half of what you save in cleanup thinner, fuel at the airport just went up again and my bill there is overdue.
LOW&SLOW John Bolding
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It's a High Volume, Low Pressure gun kit. Other
benefits of using this type of gun is almost no overspray and the tank holds
two quarts. The down side is that it is a bitch to clean up. You have to
run a lot of thinner thru the hoses to get all the paint out.
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