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Recommended airless spray tips. What spray tips to use?

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This video provides a detailed guide on selecting the correct spray paint tips for various latex-based painting projects, focusing on Graco Rack X tips. It differentiates between fine finish tips for cabinetry/trim and standard tips for walls/exteriors, explaining the numbering system for fan width and orifice size, and offers practical advice on tip lifespan.

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We're going to give you a brief description on the tips that we use uh for all of our interior and exterior painting. These are the tips that we use for all of our latexbased paints. Um and we're going to start off by showing you the rack guard and two rackex tips. These tips and guard are actually manufactured by the Greyco company. And this is the company with the best tips that we found that work best for us. The tip itself is actually inserted into the guard, twisted, and then the guard itself is hand screwed onto the gun and handtight. No tools. It only needs to be screwed on handtight. The two tips that we use, we actually use the green tip or the blue tip. The green tips by Graco are actually all fine finish tips for any fine finish work. And we use these for all of our cabinetry, furniture, and interior trim work on houses where you want a extremely smooth fine finish um paint job. On any exterior houses or interior walls and ceilings, we actually use the Graco blue rack tips. And the sizes that we use on all of our exteriors is typically a 621 or a 517. Most paint manufacturers actually actually recommend a 517 tip, but we found that for the majority of our painting, a 621 actually functions better because it actually covers better. Um, it actually makes it so we can actually paint a little bit faster because the fan width is wider. On all of our interior trim, we in cabinetry, we use a fine finish tip and we actually use the size a 210 tip or a 310 tip. On the exterior finish with the blue tips, they're 621s or five 517s. And the numbers I'm actually referring to are three-digit numbers. And they refer to the fan width in inches. So if I'm uh calling out a 621 tip, the first number is a six, which is the fan width in inches times 2. So the 6 multiplied by two is 12. So, this blue tip, a 621, will actually throw a 12 in fan out. That's how far the fan width of a gun when you're actually spraying will actually cover. On a fine finish tip, the tip itself is a 210. So, the first number is a two multiply by two, which is four, and that gives you a 4 inch fan. So, it's a lot narrower of a fan. The last two digits re the last two digits refer to the orifice size. And the larger the number, the larger the orifice, the more paint it throws out. So a 210, the orifice is a 10. A 621, the orifice is a 21. So these fine finish tips don't throw out nearly as much paint as these rack 621 tips. And that's why they actually create a finer finish than the larger tips. And those are the actual tips that we use for 90% of all of our interior and exterior painting. Typically, when you rent a sprayer, they're going to they're going to give you one of these tips, you know, along with the sprayer. If you rent it, if you purchase one, it typically comes with one of these tips, brand new. The tips themselves typically only last about 20 gallons per tip. And so, if you get a rental sprayer, the tips more than likely are going to be bad and not function properly. in and throw out your erratic pattern.

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