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Configure Spray Tip and Pressure Settings

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How to Spray a Door Jamb Like a Pro (No Drips or Runs!) | Airless Sprayer Tutorial

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  • Airless Paint Sprayer Tritech T5
  • Scuff-Tuff Paint Sherwin-Williams

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I'm using a tritech tip. So I'm a big fan of tritech tips and especially their fine finished tips. I don't think there's any fine finish tip I made right now that's any better than tritech tips. The size of the tip, I use a 5-10 tip and somebody, if you have any experience spraying trams, some very very good question, you know, why don't you use a 3-10 tip. And when you see me spraying this door jam and some trams, you know, it's a 5-10 is a fairly wide fan compared to a 3-10, a 3-10 is, you know, double the six inches wide, a 5 is 10 inches wide. So it gives you, you know, more width. Now the reason why I choose a 5 is because it's way faster spraying doors. So I spray doors always in new construction with a 5. If I have just 4-inch trim around the house or smaller, like on baseboards, et cetera, a lot of times I'll side towards a 3-inch fan. But since I'm using a 5 on the doors, I also have baseboards that a 3-inch fan doesn't cover 100% of the baseboard like in one shot. So I like using a 5 on these taller-style baseboards. A 5, we've got our header up here. This header is not, it's not a little 4-inch header, which is like 3.5 inches. This is a larger header and from this distance to that distance, I like my tip when I turn this corner to be able to span that whole distance. So that's why I use a 5-10 on these door jams in this scenario. Like some people might think, you got too much overspray. The amount of overspray that you're going to have in certain situations doesn't overcome or outweigh the benefit that the spray pattern offers by being able to go faster on doors, being able to go faster on these large baseboards, being able to get it spanning the distance across that header and being able to just get a good finish across the door jam itself. So there's my setup tritech tip. It's got a Titan guard with a tritech gun. I like a 2-finger gun. I never, I can't stand 4-finger guns. A 2-finger gun. You have 2 fingers controlling the gun, 2 fingers on the trigger. If you have a 4-finger gun, you don't have anything controlling the gun. A lot of times guys will swap it down here to be able to pull a 4-finger gun, but then now you're controlling it way down here. It's just really weird. I don't even understand why they make 4-finger guns. This is hooked up to my tritech T5, so it's got a tritech gun on it. Pressure is going to be 2,200 PSI. Anytime I'm spraying trim, somewhere around that 2,100, 2,200 PSI, getting down to 2,000, that's probably a little…

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