Understanding Tip Wear and Orifice Enlargement

So, now let's talk about your tips, how often you should replace them, and why you should replace them when they need to be replaced. So, a tip itself, the inside of a tip, it's got a carbide material, the little orifice right there. And we talked to one of the major manufacturers that manufactures these tips. They did some studies on these tips. And with a lot of different paints and products in all the tips across the board, at about 20 gallons, a 515 tip became a 517 tip. And that was pretty standard with all the tips. So, what this is telling you is the Orphice is getting bigger really fast. So after 20 gallons, a 515 is now a 517. And so it was rapidly wearing the tip out and then it kind of started to taper off, you know, and didn't wear it out as fast. But after about I think it was somewhere around 60 to 80 gallons, it was like a 519 tip. So that orifice is getting bigger and it's changing the pattern of the the spray pattern of the tip. Right.