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Final Project Review and Advanced Tips

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Repainting Doors with the GRACO ULTRA | Does it Suck?

What happens here

The presenter confirms that three doors (two coats on each side) were painted using only one battery, which still retained significant charge. He highlights a learned tip regarding the multi-surface acrylic product: a speed dial setting of '5' provided a perfect, non-pulsating spray pattern, contrary to his usual preference for settings 7-10 with other paints. Another crucial tip involves tip selection: while he typically uses a 310 tip for trim and doors, for these new FF-LP tips, a 514 tip yielded better results due to the 310's unexpectedly narrow pattern causing too many passes and runs. Finally, for maintenance, he recommends storing spray tips inside a pump armor container (supplied with the sprayer) to prevent misplacement, loss, and drying out, ensuring they remain fresh and ready for the next use.

Goal: The project concludes with a review of battery life, optimal pressure settings, tip selection, and a maintenance tip for storing spray tips.

Tools and materials

  • Graco Ultra Max Handheld Airless Sprayer
  • Pump Armor
  • Spray Tips (514 and 310 FF-LP)

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for you. So, I'm done spraying these doors here. I've got it took me two coats on both sides of the doors and just a few things that I learned with a sprayer. And there's a lot of questions of what the battery life is on these um little handheld units from Graco. And I used one battery to do both sides of these doors. So, there's three doors and I did two coats on each door. And it almost took about about 3/4 of a gallon and I only used one battery. The battery still has a lot of life to it. And another thing I learned, I used a product. I never sprayed, you know, through one of these sprayers before, this multi-surface acrylic, a pretty thin product. And um I know I said earlier in the video that I usually always spray from anywhere from 7 up to 10, but I had to turn this thing down. I had it down to about five was about the really um the perfect, you know, spray pattern for it. and it didn't do what I thought it would do with would it give you that, you know, pulsating effect on the doors. The spray came out um perfect right around that five setting. So, that was something I learned. Um tip right here, uh pro tip is I've got it all cleaned up now. It took me the clean it took me about um 10 minutes to clean it up, but I've got some pump armor in here that was supplied with a sprayer. And then I'm just keeping my tips inside the pup armor left over inside the cup. Just going to screw it. That way the tips don't get misplaced, lost, and it keeps them nice and fresh from drying out. And um anything else I learned this? Let's see. I don't think so. It actually worked out really well. Uh the overspray with this product, there's quite a bit of overspray and fallout. I don't think it had anything to do with the tips. But here's another uh quick tip is uh I typically use a 310 when I spray all my trim and doors, but when I started spraying it with these new FFLP tips, the FLP the FFLP tips, uh the new ones aren't really like the old um the old fine finish tips, the 310. It seems like the spray patterns a lot smaller. So, instead of using a 310 on these doors, I jumped up to a I think it's a it was a five. I'll even make sure the exact. And I would have never thought I would spray it with this size of a tip, but I sprayed these doors with a 514. So, it's kind of interesting. It's a 514 FFLP, and that's what I end up spraying the doors with. the the 310 was just too um the the pattern was just really narrow, not like a 310 typically would be. And so it's just way…

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