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Penny Trick for Gun Thread Identification

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Airless Spraying Tip Guards! Spraying with The Idaho Painter.

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For situations where a user doesn't have a guard but needs to determine their spray gun's thread type, the presenter offers a simple trick using a US penny. By placing a copper penny over the face of the gun's diffuser, if the outer edge of the penny aligns almost perfectly with the outer edge of the smooth part of the diffuser, the gun has a G-thread (7/8"). This is because a US penny has an identical diameter to a 7/8" G-thread diffuser, making it an easy way to verify the thread type without needing specialized tools.

Goal: A practical 'penny trick' is introduced to identify whether an airless spray gun has a G-thread (7/8") by comparing the diffuser's diameter to a US penny.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Spray Gun
  • US Penny (copper) N/A

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gun threaded gun the gun the g thread is just going to slide on and off and it won't even thread on there so it's not going to work it won't work either way so this is significantly far smaller and it will not fit on there now one way to simply identify this if you don't have the guard but you or you don't have the gun but you need to order a guard is take a penny this is a u.s penny copper penny stick it over your guard the face of your diffuser right here and the outer edge of the penny is going to line up with the outer edge of the smooth part of your diffuser right here and it's just almost the identical diameter right there if it's the penny is the same size as the diameter of your diffuser well then you got g thread 7 8 threads on your gun now some of you may ask well i've got g thread a g threaded gun well um 7 8 g thread and i got a tip this tip will go into this g thread right here what if i have a f threaded 11 16 gun can i use all these tips on a f threaded 11 16 gun so you can the only difference between these guards is the threads on them and them

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