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Evaluation of Low-Pressure Spray Tips

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The presenter shares his experience with newer low-pressure tips, which are designed to run at lower PSI (around 800-1200 PSI, compared to traditional tips running at 2200 PSI) and claim to reduce overspray and tip wear. However, he found the opposite to be true; he observed more overspray with low-pressure tips due to larger paint droplets (less atomization) and faster tip wear. He notes that when spraying overhead with low-pressure tips, he felt paint raining down on him, indicating significant fallout.

Goal: Understand the real-world performance differences of low-pressure spray tips compared to conventional tips.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint Sprayer TriTech — Used with low-pressure tips
  • Low-Pressure Spray Tips — Tips that the presenter has evaluated
  • Paint — Sprayed using low-pressure tips

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of tips. Tips started graduating to low pressure tips and low pressure tips I typically run like right now I'm running a Tri-C T5 back there. I'm running at 2200 PSI. The low pressure tips are running around 800 to,00 1200 PSI. What they said is you're going to have less o overspray and you're going to have less tip wear. So, your tips are going to last longer. What I found is you had more overspray and I found that the tips would wear, you know, even faster. And the reason why I feel like there's more overspray when you have lower pressure, the atomization of the paint, the droplets are a lot bigger on low pressure tips. And what I notice is when I'm spraying with low pressure tips, especially overhead, um I feel paint raining down on me. So, I um

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