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Attach & Lubricate Spray Gun Extension

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How To Use a Paint Sprayer.

What happens here

Always use an extension with your spray gun, even a small 6-inch one, to minimize paint splatter back onto yourself or the equipment. Before screwing the extension onto the spray gun, spray a small amount of WD-40 onto the female threads of the extension. This lubrication helps prevent paint from sticking and ensures a smoother, tighter connection, reducing the likelihood of leaks. Hand-tighten the extension, then use a wrench to snug it down firmly, but not excessively, to create a secure, leak-proof seal.

Goal: Attach a spray gun extension to the gun, lubricating the threads with WD-40 to ensure a clean, leak-free connection.

Tools and materials

  • Spray Gun Extension — Extending the reach of the spray gun and reducing splatter
  • Spray Gun — Receiving the extension
  • Wrench — Tightening the extension securely
  • WD-40 — Lubricating extension threads to prevent paint sticking and ensure tight seal

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one of my pet peeves is when this prime hose just gets set into the paint occasionally that's what you have to do but we will typically put that back in our discard bucket that way it's not building up a bunch of paint on the outside and it's just going to sit in that dirty water all right so the next step we're going to do is we almost always operate with an extension even if it's just the six inch extension on the end of the gun and part of the reason for that is when you're when you're loading up your gun and you don't have an extension that paint tends to come out and create more of a mess or more of a splashback against the bucket than it does if you've got an extension in this case we're setting up for gutters so we're going to be putting a pretty big three foot extension onto it one of the the key things before you put the extension on those you'll grab the extension and we'll take some wd-40 and we'll always spray some wd-40 on the female side of the threads that way we're not getting paint that's sticking to the inside and it stays cleaner longer now we're going to attach the extension on it just screws right on and then we're always going to use a wrench to tighten that up so that we don't have leaks coming through seems like there used to be a day where you could just hand tighten them but no more we always use a wrench because inevitably it leaks if you don't it doesn't have to be crazy tight but you got to get that nice snug fit onto it so now what he's going to do is he's

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