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Best Airless Spray Tips for Exterior House Painting | ExitFlex Speedy-6 Explained

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The speaker begins by detailing his preferred airless sprayer tips for exterior painting. For the main body of a house or large surface areas like log cabins, he consistently uses an ExitFlex 515 tip. For smaller, more detailed areas such as gutters or front doors, he recommends a 310 tip. He mentions his initial experience with a larger 517 tip but explains why he transitioned to smaller sizes. The first digit of the tip size (e.g., '5' in 515) indicates the fan width when doubled (5 x 2 = 10 inches at 12 inches from the surface), and the last two digits (e.g., '15' in 515) represent the orifice size in thousandths of an inch (0.015").

Goal: Identify the optimal airless sprayer tip sizes for different exterior painting tasks.

Tools and materials

  • 310 tip — Spraying paint on smaller, detailed exterior surfaces like gutters and doors
  • 517 tip — Larger tip size used initially for comparison, then reduced due to overspray
  • Airless sprayer — Applying paint to surfaces
  • ExitFlex 515 tip ExitFlex — Spraying paint on large exterior surfaces
  • Exterior paint/stain — The coating being applied to the exterior surfaces

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So, I'm going to talk about, you know, what tips I use when it comes to spraying an exterior. This is going to go for all the paints and stains I use on the exterior body of a house or say a log cabinet, etc., I use a 515. This is an exit flex 515. I use that on everything that's the body of the house. If I spray uh gutters, I'll use a 310. If I spray a front door, I'll use a 310. The only tips I use is a 515 and a 310 on an exterior. I started out spraying

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