Manage Overspray and Material Loss

on an exterior. I started out spraying with a 517. The larger the tip, the faster you can paint. The faster you can paint, the more money you're going to make. But the problem with going up in tip size and um painting faster, one of the inherent things you get with that is you get overspray. Overspray and fallout equates to um loss material. And with today's paints, the paints have just skyrocketed over the years. You know, one of the paints I'm using now is it's approximately $100 a gallon. if I lose, you know, a gallon in overspray, which is very easy to do. That's a hundred bucks out of my pocket. So, with all that said, I eventually graduated back down to a 515. A 515, it's so much easier to control overspray. Today's a windy day. I don't want to get overspray on that door, otherwise I'm going to be getting crocodile cloths and cleaning it off. That's a powder coated door that we're not going to be painting. I've sprayed with a 515, you know, on windy windy days, and I've never once had an overspray claim, you know, in my career. One of the other things you'll get with larger tips is the more possibilities of