Understand the Impact of Worn Tips

pressure um too high pressure is going to cause some of that kind of stuff but tip wear is one of the major causes of over spray getting on plants getting where you don't want it to go are you enjoying the video so far are you finding it helpful hit the subscribe button hit the notification bell that way you'll get notified every time we come out with more of this free content and now let's get back to the video so the tips themselves in this study you know around 60 to 80 gallons is when you should begin changing it and what happens is the tip itself it's about you know 35 dollar item you know when you've gone beyond that 80 gallon mark and you're into 100 gallons 150 gallons you actually begin wasting more paint and over spray and fall out you could end up on an entire house waste a whole gallon of paint so not only you have overspray to clean up overspray on plants and stuff like that but you're actually you're losing the money that would cost you to just buy a new tip so the tip actually pays for itself when you change them in time a fine finish tip like right after that 20 gallon mark you're not getting a good high quality fine finish you're not getting the proper atomization the fine finish spray pattern that you should be getting so you really should be changing your tips your fine finish tips every 20 gallons and then your production tips every 60 to 80 gallons if your boss is telling you that because i hear this a lot from painters that my boss would never allow me to change the tips that often well unfortunately then your boss is not allowing you to be an effective painter to uh achieve good quality results and you have an argument like well the over spray that's going to be created that's going to be blamed on me um the loss of pain that's um you know you're losing by using what we call blown out tips you know it's just going to cost the owner of the company more money now i typically around 30 gallons 20 30 gallons we can actually begin to hear it and you'll hear like a tip itself like a tip that's got 100 gallons 150 gallons you'll hear a really loud hissing sound coming out of the tip as that orifice begins to kind of become a circle you hear it hiss you see more overspray coming out on the guard the plastic part of the guard you get a lot of built up over spray on there and once again you get larger particle sizes that are going to hit your substrate and bounce off and become you know just wet paint on the ground wet paint on your roof so