Understanding Airless Tip Numbers

This is Chris the Idaho Painter. In this video, I'm going to talk about airless tip sizes and um answer some of the questions that I've been getting a lot of on my YouTube channel. What tip sizes do I use? I'm going to try to answer some of these questions and discuss what the tip sizes mean and what it looks like. I'm going to spray some of the different tip sizes right here on my shed that I just painted recently to give you an idea what it looks like to use a 310 versus say a 1221. So, I'm going to talk a little bit about these tips and I'm going to talk about the tip sizing right now a little bit. And tip sizing, when somebody asks me what tip size I use to spray trim, I'm going to tell them a 310 tip is the most common tip size. And the tip size, what the numbers mean, if you want to know what they mean, a three, the first number on a tip size, if you double that number, that's going to be the fan width, how wide the fan is. If you have your gun tip uh 12 in from the surface. So if I tell you I'm using a 310 tip, you take the first number, you double it, and that's going to be six. So my width of my fan is going to be 6 in. And then the second number, the 10, is going to be the orifice size. So that's going to describe kind of how much paint is going to come out of the tip. So if I'm using a 1223 tip, I'm going to take that first number, which is a 12. I'm going to double that. And so my fan width is going to be 24. And my second number, the 23, is the orifice size. So a 23 is a lot larger than a 10. The larger number on the orifice size, the more product is going to come out. And so a 310 is going to put a really fine finish on here. If I jump up to a 123 1223, it's going to throw a ton of paint in a wide fan. And so that's for spraying uh for instance new construction jobs or block fillers and you're trying to go really fast and just paint really fast. But if you're a new sprayer, a beginner uh from with spraying airless sprayers, the larger the tip size, the harder it is going to spray. I do get questions