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Prime the Sprayer and Clear Air

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Operating an airless sprayer. How To Use A Titan Paint Sprayer. Painting tips.

What happens here

The airless sprayer has two tubes: an intake tube with a screen that draws paint from the bucket, and a prime tube. The prime tube is responsible for purging air from the system. Position the prime valve into the 'prime' position (usually a lever or knob). Insert both the intake tube and the prime tube into a bucket of paint. Allow the sprayer to run until you see a consistent flow of paint (your product) coming out of the prime tube, indicating that all the air has been cleared from the machine itself and the hose leading to the prime tube.

Goal: Purge air from the airless sprayer and load it with paint.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer — The main equipment for paint application
  • Bucket — Holding the paint and catching excess paint during priming
  • Paint — The material to be sprayed

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sprayer to the on position. And then there there's going to be two tubes. There's going to be an intake tube. This tube's got a screen on it that's actually going to take up the paint. And then there's going to be a prime tube. And this is what's going to get all get rid of all the air out of the line out of the airless sprayer. And you're going to start off by locating the prime valve. And this valve has got two positions. It's got a uh spray position and a prime position. And you want to put that into the prime position till your product starts coming out of the prime tube. And that's going to clear all the air out of the hose and out of the machine. And you'll run this till you see no more air bubbles coming out of the prime tube. Once it starts flowing consistently with paint or your product, you're going to switch it back to the spray position. And it usually should take about 2 to 3 seconds for it to actually stop pumping. Now it's actually completely purged of air and it's completely loaded with paint. the machine itself. Now, your hose itself has still got air or water in it. Now, you can continue to run your hose until you actually start to see paint flow out of it.

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