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Load Sprayer and Test Paint Viscosity

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What happens here

The painter demonstrates loading the Benjamin Moore Advance paint into the sprayer. He points out that the paint has a low odor, confirming the product's claim. He then tests the paint's viscosity with a stir stick, noting its thin consistency. He warns that this thinness means applying light coats is crucial to avoid runs, especially on vertical surfaces. This observation reinforces the need to understand how a product 'likes to be sprayed' before full application.

Goal: Prepare the sprayer for painting and understand the paint's consistency.

Tools and materials

  • Paint stir stick — Checking paint viscosity
  • Titan ControlMax Sprayer Titan — To spray paint

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uh real world now this product is also supposed to be low odor put that to the test right here it doesn't have a very strong odor at all so um there's some truth to the low odor portion right there i'm going to load up our sprayer now this is a waterborne product and it cleans up with just warm soap and water the viscosity i'll show you what the viscosity of it looks like it looks really thin so i'm going to want to be really careful and not try to spray anything vertical in one coat or i could get runs and so and that's kind of what i heard about it is you want to just spray light coats and not heavy coats or it will run really easy so um do a little research be on your product if you've never used it before see if you can get any information on how it likes to be sprayed but there it is it's pretty pretty thin it's now it's probably like um in my past using oil-based paints that's about how we would spray oil based trim paint it'd be about that viscosity right there i don't need now if i was going to put it in an hdlp sprayer i want to know my exact viscosity using a viscosity measuring tool like a zone cup or a ford 4 cup but i'm not spraying through an hvlp i'm spraying through this titan control max and i'm even going to use the gun that came with it so i'm gonna get this thing loaded up and ready to go here now i'm going to

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