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Correct Gasket Orientation and Re-seat

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How to Fix & Repair Your HVLP Spray Gun: Step-by-Step Guide

What happens here

Examine the gasket closely. It has two distinct sides: a thin, tapered or pointed side and a flat, squared-off side. The correct orientation for installation is with the thin, pointed side facing *inward* towards the gun, pointing into the air distributor. Gently push the gasket down into the air distributor using only your fingers until it is flush with the metal face. Avoid using tools to press it in, as this can cause damage.

Goal: Properly install the gasket to restore tension to the fan control ring.

Tools and materials

  • Gasket Apollo — The component being re-oriented and re-seated

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if I take my my uh gun tool here and I use the flat Edge and uh on the on the you probably can't see this in the video but on the gasket there's actually a thin side of the gasket to a point comes to a point right and then there's like a flat side which is actually squared off right so there's two parts in our gun that are like this and very similar and both parts go into this gun the same way so in this case we had the gasket in upside down which meant that the thin side was facing up and the the larger side was down inside the distributor and we actually want it the opposite way so when I put this G gasket back in I'm going to put the thin side in first so I like to think of thin to wind thin wind or the or the the the point is kind of an arrow pointing into the gun so that's another way to remember and then all you want to do is just kind of take your fingers and just push it down flush right so it should be flush with this metal right there with the face of the air distributor so you don't want to press it in with any tools down in there deep just with your fingers just so that it's flush right because what's going to happen is when I put the nozzle back in and the nozzle pulls this all together it's actually going to pull that gasket down into the air distributor and seat it properly so that it puts the right tension on this so you remember when before we took the gun apart it was really sloppy loose right so now that we flip that back and reset it I can put

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