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Strategic Tip Selection and Versatility for Various Projects

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The presenter reinforces the versatility and importance of choosing the right tips for specific painting scenarios. He explains that while high production tips (like the red 515) are fast, they can cause 'fingering' or lap marks on smooth (Level 5) walls due to their sharp edge, making the feathered edge of an HEA tip preferable there. For new construction, speed is paramount, so a 510 tip is preferred for trim work to span wider distances in one pass, despite potential extra overspray in empty houses. For brick, a 515 is used with solid color stain like H&C. For fences, on windy days or when overspray isn't a concern, a 619 HEA tip allows for lower pressure, while a 310 can be used for more control if a slower pace is acceptable. For cabinets, water-based products are typically sprayed with fine finish tips, predominantly the 310, sometimes a 510 for wider areas.

Goal: Understand how to strategically choose between the core tips for specific project types and finishes.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Sprayer — Applying paint/stain
  • Titan Fine Finish 310 Tip Titan — Spraying cabinets and fences (with slower speed for overspray control)
  • Titan Fine Finish 510 Tip Titan — Spraying wider trim in new construction and sometimes cabinets
  • Titan HEA 619 Tip Titan — Spraying fences on windy days or for smooth walls/ceilings
  • Titan High Production 515 Tip Titan — Spraying brick with solid color stain
  • H&C Solid Color Stain H&C — Staining brick
  • Water-based Products — Painting cabinets

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critical to use on Titan HEA tip because you're gonna get those nice edges if you use a high production tip on say like a smooth wall smooth textured walls level 5 you might get fingering or lap marks because these high production tips they leave kind of a sharp edge and not a really feathered edger and new construction when I was doing the back of my new construction days and I did a lot of new construction day in and day out when I would spray in walls it's all about speed and getting things done fast I would be using a 5-10 tip for doing all my trim socks is up here to work one by four trim so the trim is it's pretty wide so the baseboards are pretty wide door jambs window trims are pretty wide and you want that tip to span that distance so you can shoot it just one time you don't want to have to do multiple passes on your trim work and you're gonna have a little bit more X overspray and extra paint but in new construction it doesn't matter because there's no flooring there's nothing in there it's just a bare house bare wood and you're just blowing and going if I was doing brick and I'm spraying it was stain on like a solid color stain like H&C I've used it up by 15 to on a fence on a really really windy day you can take and still spray a fence that doesn't have any surrounding houses or anything you're worried about overspray but to control over spread you can drop down and use a 310 on a fence you're gonna have to go a lot lot slower than you would with the 619 but when we're doing fences this is because you're spraying over the top of the fence you got the pickets of offense that the product the stain can go through that's what we're using an easy tip a high efficiency hairless tip because you're dropping your your pressures down really really low so cabinets it's probably spent eight years or so painting cabinets every single one of them were with water-based products and spanked with fine finish tips and predominantly a 3/10 tip occasionally I would use a 5-10 if I have one around so once again you know I'm the guy inside

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