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Painting Tool of the Future? I Had to Try It

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Video by The Idaho Painter

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This video provides a demonstration and review of a continuous-feed paintbrush system, specifically the Bauer Pro Power Brush, for exterior painting tasks like sheds. The demonstrator evaluates its setup, application, and performance, highlighting significant limitations and challenges encountered during use, concluding that it is not a suitable replacement for traditional painting methods or airless sprayers for most applications. It's important to note that this video does not depict ceiling paint spraying using an HVLP system, which was the requested context, but rather a different type of painting tool and application.

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I mean, this is not how you actually paint with a brush. All right. So, we're going to be working with um another method on how to paint, you know, a project, an exterior project. A paint brush that's actually attached to a tank. And so, it will feed your brush right here. Um it's a battery operated tank that's pressurized. When I push a button, this is going to feed paint right to this brush. So whenever you need uh paint, you're just going to push on this thing's called a pro power brush. So it just attaches quick release attaches here. So we've been showing you, you know, multiple different methods to, you know, paint, you know, large or small projects. Here's a method. I've never tried it before. We're going to put it to the test. So it's a backpack. You can see here's the backpack. It's got battery port right here. Um, so it's battery operated. It's got a power button right there. I assume that like primes it. Um I have no idea. So I'm going to dump some paint in there and um see how it goes. Okay, that's not even half full. That's kind of heavy. But hey, we got paint. Okay, people. The problem like I'm having a problem like I mean this is not how you actually paint with a brush is like this. I don't know who paints like that. I mean I want to hold it [sighs] like this like a paintbrush. But then I can't. Oh my gosh. This is like exhausting me. I'm having to work really hard because the filaments are so soft. They need to be stiffer. Um maybe if it was like um a thin oil-based semi-transparent or transparent stain, but then they're synthetic filament, so that wouldn't make any sense. I mean, this whole the whole idea, the concept of a continuous feed brush is something, you know, we've needed something like this for a lot of years. See, this is like here, this an airless sprayer would be able to just spray in all this stuff. Um Whoa. Shoot. You got to really be careful because man paint because the problem is you're it's all separating right there and the filaments separate. So when you release paint it's not like it's going into the filaments and filling up the filaments. It's just shooting out right there. I'm testing out a lot of different ways to actually paint. And um so I don't think this it's not going to work for this situation. This is really going to work and take a lot of time. And then you're still going to there's things you're not going to be able to paint, you know, with this getting ins and outs that an airless sprayer would be able to paint with it. Would this be a good option for a fence? Would it be a good option for a deck? Uh would it function differently with inner products, oil based paints, waterbased paints? Um uh thin products. You can see that the product like how it just spills out of there. That can be an issue. I think you better make sure you have drop cloths, cardboard shields, everything cuz I've already got myself a mess I got to clean up. Yeah, I know some people have had some experiences with these things and might be some of you that absolutely love the product. What we'd love to know is what your experience is with it. Have you had a good experience with it? Have you had a bad experience with it? Let us [music] know. Um, we want to know

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