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Understand Tailing from Insufficient Pressure

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What happens here

The video highlights that one of the biggest problems in paint spraying is improperly adjusting the pressure, which can lead to 'cordage' or 'tailing'. This manifests as excess paint building up on the sides of the spray pattern, creating an undesirable feathered or uneven edge. When a wall is painted with this issue, the imperfections become visible, especially when viewed from a low angle with glancing light. The demonstration visually shows what an improper spray pattern with 'tailing' looks like, emphasizing that this is what you should avoid.

Goal: Learn to identify and understand the problem of 'tailing' or 'cordage,' which is caused by incorrect or insufficient pressure during paint spraying, leading to an uneven spray pattern.

Tools and materials

  • Paint
  • Paint Sprayer
  • Wall/Surface

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one of the biggest problems is actually adjusting the pressure correctly to avoid cordage. So we're going to show you a little bit of what it looks like. Here's what you shouldn't do, what you shouldn't have when you start with too much. No, that's really not very nice. So if we leave it like this and paint a whole wall like this, we'll see it in the light, when you look at it from a low angle. We'll see excess paint

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