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Thoroughly Disassemble Gun's Front Parts

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Best Cleaning Practices | Cleaning HVLP Spray Guns

What happens here

Crucially, remove the needle and nozzle from the front of the spray gun. This is especially important for water-based products (like latex paint) as they can dry quickly, but is equally vital for oil-based paints. Additionally, unscrew and remove the cap located at the bottom of the gun. This comprehensive disassembly allows for a direct path through the gun's internal material passages, which is the key to a truly effective clean.

Goal: Completely disassemble the front section of the paint sprayer, including the needle, nozzle, and the bottom cap, to expose all internal material passages.

Tools and materials

  • Paint Sprayer Gun (Apollo Atomizer 7700)
  • Wrench (for nozzle removal)

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take the rest of the gun apart and I pull my needle and my nozzle out this is especially useful um when you're spraying latex waterbased products because you know most of us clean up in the sink when we're done and so um this is really handy for making sure you're cleaning up the gun real well so I'm going to take all of the front part of the gun apart which now leaves me with just your material passages in the gun right so when I take off the cap I'm not only going to notice that you'll have paint that will fall out of here because the paint will be stuck in here because of gra right so you want to clean the bottom of the cap too because that can be a source of contamination but now I have a straight shot through the whole gun and into the front of the gun too so I can take my cleaning brush and I can put my cleaning brush in here while I hold it underneath the sink right and I'm got hot water running through here and cleaning it all out so I can get into all the parts inside the gun really well to make sure I'm cleaning it and getting that paint particularly out of this bottom portion here so it seems like you'll be able to clean it a lot faster that way too a lot faster yeah because your paint will flush out of here much quicker because you've got the water coming through yeah that's a great

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