Switch to HEA Tip and Adjust Pressure

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Get the PERFECT Spray Pattern! Airless Sprayer Tips

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What happens here

Carefully remove the high-production spray tip from the gun. Select a Titan HEA tip (e.g., 311 tip) from a tip saver bucket, which helps keep tips organized and stored in paint thinner to prevent drying out. Attach the HEA tip to the spray gun. HEA tips are designed to run at lower pressures. Begin spraying at a pressure that results in some 'fingering' (e.g., around 1000 PSI at the gun). Gradually increase the pressure on the sprayer (e.g., from 1500 PSI at the pump to 2000 PSI) until a consistent spray pattern with good feathered edges is achieved (around 900-1100 PSI at the gun). Note that the pressure at the gun will be lower than at the pump, especially with longer hoses. The HEA tip should produce a nice, soft, feathered edge with less overspray and kickback.

Goal: Replace the high-production tip with a Titan HEA (High-Efficiency Airless) tip and fine-tune the pressure to achieve optimal feathered edges with minimal overspray.

Tools and materials

Airless Spray Gun
Tip Saver Bucket
Titan 440 Impact Airless Sprayer
Titan HEA Spray Tip (311 tip shown)
Paint
Paint Thinner
Paper or cardboard

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that I keep in my vehicles I'm gonna switch this thing over to a titan ATA tip I got my bucket of tips right here if you've never seen one of these things this is a tip saver right here this bucket and these things are pretty amazing it organizes your tips keeps them down I got just about that much paint there that might tips sit in so they don't dry out that's now at about 1500 psi and I've got your think I got a hundred feet of hose right here so it's probably dropping down to about a thousand psi at the gun which is typically what an he8 tip should be run at and so the benefits of that is less overspray less kick back and let's fall out so here we go so I'm getting a fairly good feathered edge right here it's filling in pretty nicely but I still think that I want my edge to be a little bit more feathered and this is once again this is a 311 tip and so these tips are just a little bit harder to dial and you would typically use something like this - maybe sprays you know some trim or something if you wanted to control overspray so we're looking we've got some fingering right there and we're running you know it about let me see put it all so it was dropping down to the top of the green I'll bump it up just a little bit more now right there it's looking pretty nice for a 311 tip here we go so now you can start to see that as nice and feathered for a 311 tip I've got a nice feathered edge right here it's all filled in and now I'm running that's gonna be at the pump it's 2,000 psi but it's dropping down to around to around 1,500 to 1300 psi at the gun here's a 515 Titan HEA tip and we'll show you what this one looks like now we'll see if we can get this one adjusted - so that's that's a lot more paint coming out there so you can see this one typically the Titan HEA tips like to run around 800 to a thousand psi but I had to bump that up to a little bit more than what would be standard but I finally got the proper spray pattern I

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