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Flush System with First Clean Water Bucket

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How To Properly Clean or Repair A Paint Sprayer. Titan Spray Painting.

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After the initial paint has been evacuated, redirect the spray gun into a designated 'dirty bucket' to collect the initial flush water. Continue running water through the spray gun. Many modern airless sprayers are equipped with a 'clean setting' feature; if your model has this, switch to it. This setting cycles the pump up and down, creating pulsations that help clean the system more effectively and faster. While flushing, periodically clean the intake hose by hand, ensuring all paint residue is removed. Continue flushing until the water coming out of the gun is relatively clear, and the water in the clean water bucket becomes noticeably murky. You will use several buckets of clean water for this step.

Goal: Once paint is cleared, switch the spray gun to a dedicated dirty water bucket and flush the system with clean water. Utilize the sprayer's 'clean setting' if available to enhance cleaning efficiency.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Paint Sprayer
  • Clean Water Buckets
  • Dirty Water Bucket
  • Intake Hose
  • Spray Gun

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And I'm typically just once I start to just see a little bit of water start to come through, I'm going to quit. And then I'm going to start running that the dirty water into here. I don't want to run any water down into my paint and thin out my paint. So look closely as you're actually running this paint out. Okay, now I've seen the water start to come through the line. Now I'm going to switch it over. This is going to be my dirty bucket right here. Now I'm just going to start running it out. And a lot of sprayers actually have a clean setting on the sprayer and you turn it to that clean setting and it actually cycles the the pump up and down and it pulsates the water and it actually cleans it faster. So I'm going to set this one over to the clean setting. You'll hear the difference. Now I'll run it to clean. So you can hear it cycle up and down. That makes it clean a lot faster. So, I'm just going to keep running this here for about 30 seconds. And then my paint intake right here. I'm going to swish this around cuz I want to get that paint off my intake right here. Get it all cleaned off. You want to get this all clean. Just stick your hand in the water and clean it all off. Get that good and clean. You don't want paint all on there drying onto that thing building up. Get that thing good and clean. And then we're going to run some water again. Now I'm typically going to run, you know, about about this much water out of this 5gallon bucket. Then I've got another clean bucket right here. Then I'm going to transfer this in so I can get some fresh water cuz this is all murky and got some some paint in it from the intake that had paint all over it when I dumped it in there. I'm going to run this thing. Now I'm going to drop it over to my other clean water cuz I've been cycling this quite a while now. Just drop it over to my clean water. Begin running it. Again,

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