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Access and Clean the Spray Gun Filter

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How to clean & rebuild a Graco Contractor II gun. Graco Sprayer Tips.

What happens here

To access the gun's filter, use the integrated trigger guard. First, swing the trigger guard back. Then, insert the hook end of the trigger guard into the slot on the filter housing. Rotate the trigger guard counter-clockwise to loosen and unscrew the filter housing from the gun. Once loose, finish unscrewing by hand. Pull out the long filter. The presenter recommends cleaning this filter after every three to four paint jobs using a high-pressure hose and nozzle.

Goal: Clean the internal filter of the spray gun.

Tools and materials

  • Graco Contractor II Spray Gun Graco — The main tool being maintained
  • High-Pressure Hose with Nozzle — Cleaning the filter effectively
  • Integrated Trigger Guard — Loosening and tightening the filter housing

What they say

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So, I can take this tool, grab onto the gun itself, get this tool engaged with the nut on it right here. Once I get it engaged, I can just turn and and it'll release. And then it starts to pop up. And now you can start spinning the top off. And you have to get it released with the tool to a certain height cuz there's a little um catch right there. there. And it has to get above that that catch till it actually will the top of the gun will spin off. Once this gun the top is spun off, that exposes the filter right here. And this filter, we try to clean these filters at least every 3 to four paint jobs. And we take them outside, take them with a high pressure um hose and nozzle and spray these things out. If you clean this filter often, you won't very rarely ever have to replace it. if it gets too clogged and um it's trying it builds up too much pressure and it'll actually break the filter to get the paint to go through. It'll destroy the filter. So, clean those filters, you know, approximately every three to four paint jobs. That filter just it's no

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