Understand Prime/Spray Valve and Tubes

typically uh the prime valve and spray valve this one the way it operates you Flip It Forward and it sprays it's going to spray paint you flip it to the other side and it's going to Prime now an airless sprayer is a sprayer that sprays only paint out of it it isn't mixed with air the pump itself completely paint um sends through the hose 100% paint and in order for that process to happen it has to Prime and Purge all of the air out of the machine out of the pump itself and that's what the prime setting is for is you set it to Prime to purge all the air out when the air is all out then the thing can actually spray this one identifies it shows a pattern on here a little gun that it's in the spray mode over here it has kind of a little circular pattern that means it's circulating paint that it's in the prime mode we've got um a hose and a gun attached to it right there you have two tubes typically on every single airless sprayer you have what we call an intake tube this is actually going to take the paint up through your gallon can or your five gallon bucket right here it's going to take it up it typically has a rock guard on it right here this protects and keeps any rocks any type of debris large debris going up inside this tube itself this is your Prime tube this is the tube when you set this thing to Prime product is actually going to come out here either water or paint is going to come out of this end this is what is actually cycling it's pulling paint up through here it's sending it out through your Prime tube and that's um purging all the air out of the system itself so I'd