Dual-Tip Airless Spray Extension – Pros, Cons, and What to Watch Out For

All right. So, here's the dual head tip extension all set up, ready to go. It's got two 515 tips on it that help control overspray. I would prefer exit flex, but I've got a Graco 515 and a Bedford 515 on there. So, here we go. So that's what it looks like spraying with the dual head tip extension. You can see how fast I can spray. That's pretty dang fast. That's pumping out a lot of paint. And if I had a big building, that's a huge advantage spraying with this. I got the reach with the extension. It's keeping me away from the surface. says keep keep away from silic dust, clays, um the chemicals and you can spray fast. I don't like shooting the footings with it. I'd rather not shoot footings with it. It's too hard. The [snorts] dual head tip extension. This came out quite a few years ago. It's a product um that Hyde produces right here. and a dual head tip extension. The way I use it is I put two 515 tips on here. What this does when you're starting to spray large amounts of siding, large amounts of stucco, long passes, and ceilings. This is where I really like it is ceilings. You'll take two 515s, add them together. Now you just doubled your fan pattern width and you can just spray a lot faster with um a fan pattern of about 12 in. And some of you might ask, well, why can't I just take that and put say a 12 whatever on this gun and have the same effect doing an exterior you there is no such thing as a 1215. I think a 1221 is the smallest or 1219 and that's thrown out a ton a ton of paint. Way too much overspray for me. Way too much uh lost paint transferred not to the surface on fallout. So with today's paints, I'm spraying emerald urethane. Really expensive paint. If you have a lot of fallout, a lot of oay, it's going to cost you a lot of money. So now I can get the same fan pattern width as with 12 um with 515. So I have basically a 1215 pattern. I can control overspray now. Have better transfer rate and less likely getting overspray on plants, the ground and overspray carrying in the wind. So that's the advantage of this. If you're doing ceilings, I really think it's as awesome as doing ceilings. If you're doing a lot of ceilings, this is a great thing to not um you know have to spray a ton a ton of product up on the ceiling with say like a 1221. There's been a lot of copies, you know, out there over the years um from China has copied a lot and I've seen multiple copies. I bought one of the copies and check it out. Really, really cheap. Uh very easy to bend. High likelihood that it's going to leak at the um the point right here hides right here. This point right here is pretty dang strong. It's not going to leak. It's not going to um break on you. the ones I've seen, the Chinese models, very high likelihood they're going to break. I would say one of the negatives to it is the added weight. So, it is you've got two tips. Um, you've got a heavy um device right here that joins, you know, the two tips together and so you got a lot of just a lot of, you know, end weight on there that causes a lot of wrist wrist fatigue. If you're spraying siding when you're overhead, you typically don't have that issue doing ceilings. That's awesome for ceilings.