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HOW TO CLEAN A Titan Wagner or Graco Airless Paint Sprayer after oil based paints.

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What happens here

Begin by gathering all necessary supplies: an airless paint sprayer, two 5-gallon buckets (one designated 'clean' and one 'dirty'), paint thinner (also known as mineral spirits), and a drop cloth. Pour approximately half a gallon of clean mineral spirits into the 'clean' bucket. Position the sprayer on the drop cloth in an outdoor area like grass or dirt. Avoid concrete as paint thinner can permanently stain it and grass as it can kill it. Finally, turn the sprayer's pressure down to a much lower setting than what is used for spraying (e.g., from 2200 PSI to a lower setting) to prevent splattering during the cleaning process.

Goal: Organize cleaning materials and sprayer for oil-based cleanup

Tools and materials

  • 5-Gallon Bucket — Holding clean mineral spirits for the cleaning cycle
  • Airless Paint Sprayer — The main equipment to be cleaned
  • Drop Cloth — Protecting the ground from spills and splatters
  • Paint Thinner/Mineral Spirits — Cleaning the sprayer; about half a gallon is used initially, with more needed for a second flush

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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. So, now I got about a half a gallon of mineral spirits in this clean bucket. I'm going to transfer my pump over to the bucket and begin the process of cycling it through my hose. So now my f my hose is

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