Understand Sprayer Types and Initial Selection Factors

so John you know I like pot what do you like I like Top Cups I was trying to avoid that one hey we're here at um Apollo sprayers in V California so we're going to be talking about um the Apollo 7700 gun and two options when you buy this uh like if you go to paint life Supply Co and you choose to buy say you know Precision six or Precision um whatever so you have two gun options you have cup gun on below and you got a cup on the top gravity fed or um pot so um is there anything specific you call this this is called what we usually refer that either to as a bottom cup or incorrectly a lot of people from Automotive call it a siphon cup siphon cup typically those were bottom cups like the old days wouldn't have the pressure tube on it we Al have the pressure tube for the turbine but so it's not technically siphon but they still call it a siphon cup cuz that was traditionally what a bottom cup was in the old days right okay and so we got a siphon cup we got gravity cup you know H how do I go about choosing which one that I would use that's a good question uh so a lot of it really comes down to preference um really I wouldn't say a lot but there's there's there's two main things you want to consider first of all is the preference right so first of all how long how much how much paint Reservoir do you need and what feels good to you right does the balance of a top cup or the balance of a bottom cup feel better because that's a lot of it right when we're holding this gun in our hands for a long time it needs to be comfortable whether you're holding a court or in this case of 600 cc's of material um you want to be able to feel comfortable with that right and so that's the first thing you want to look at is what your personal preference is now beyond that there are some types of paints especially nowadays where we're doing a lot of these uh waterborne Italian even domestic waterborne products nowadays that are really thick uh really heavy materials they don't like the bottom gun because even with the pressure we're fighting gravity to get the material up to the to the nozzle and so having a gravity Fed Cup for spraying those really thick heavy materials is really