Introduction and Setup of Cleaning Station

In this video, I'm going to show you how to clean out an airless paint sprayer that we've been using with an oilbased product. And cleaning out an airless sprayer or a paint sprayer that's been uh being used with oil based products is a little bit different than cleaning about a latex or a water-based product. I've been getting some questions and um comments about how to clean them out on my YouTube channel. So, I'm going to show you the process how we go about cleaning out this airless sprayer. We've been spraying an oilbased primer on the exterior of a house and now we're ready to clean the sprayer out. So, here we go. I'm going to show you how. So, to start off cleaning the sprayer, when I'm using an oil-based product, we always use paint thinner or also known as mineral spirits. And I always have a dirty bucket. And this is a bucket we put the um the old and dirty mineral spirits or paint thinner in. And then I always have a really clean bucket that I pour the clean mineral spirits in. And so I'm going to put my pump in here and it's going to draw out the clean mineral spirits. The dirty mineral spirits is going to be poured in right there. And we always recycle our mineral spirits. So I have 5 gallons of it. And over time all the the paint and byproducts of the paint or the products, whatever's in the the oil based paint, it actually settles to the bottom of the 5gallon can gets really hard and you'll actually have clean paint thinner. So that dirty paint thinner can be reused over and over and over again. So, I'll buy 5 gallons of paint thinner and it'll typically last for several years. So, now I'm going to pour my my uh paint thinner mineral spirits in my clean bucket and begin cleaning it. Got my airless sprayer set up. I want to turn the pressure down um a lot lower than what I what I typically using it to spray at. I spray at 2200 PSI, but I'm going to set the pressure lower so I don't get any splatters. I'm working on the grass. I have a drop cloth cuz I don't want to spill any paint thinner on the grass cuz it'll kill the grass. I don't want to do it on the concrete cuz I don't want to get anything on the concrete because it would permanently stain or or um leave white primer on the concrete and it's almost impossible to clean up. So, I like to clean it up out in the grass or out in a dirt area where I don't even have to put a drop cloth down. But, we're limited on space. So, here we are right here in the grass.