Clean Main Sprayer Filter

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Repair A Graco 695 Airless Paint Sprayer Not Priming Properly.

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What happens here

Locate the main filter housing on the sprayer. It usually has a large cap that can be unscrewed. If tight, apply some packing lubricant around the threads to help loosen it and prevent future sticking. Unscrew the cap and carefully pull out the filter element. Take the filter to a water hose and thoroughly clean it by squirting water through it until all paint and debris are removed. Also, clean inside the filter housing cap to ensure no debris remains. Once clean, reinsert the filter element into the housing, ensuring it's properly seated. Apply a thin layer of packing lubricant around the threads of the housing before screwing the cap back on. Hand-tighten the cap until snug. This lubricant helps prevent paint from drying and binding the cap to the housing.

Goal: Clean the main filter to ensure proper paint flow and prevent pressure issues.

Tools and materials

Graco 695 Paint Sprayer Graco — The equipment being maintained
Water Hose — Cleaning the filter and housing
Packing Lubricant — Lubricating filter housing threads to prevent sticking

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[bell] Now our repair is good to go. Sprayer is ready [music] to use. This is Chris, the Idaho painter. In this video, I'm going to show you how to check, replace, or clean a filter in a Graco 695 sprayer. And right here, this is the housing that holds the the filter for the sprayer. And that housing typically should just be handtight. A lot of times it gets gets put on there pretty tight or and and just won't come off. Gets paint up inside there, gets stuck, and you're going to have to get a large pair of channel locks. Hopefully, it's just handtight and it'll just come off with your hands. So, just going to unscrew that thing to keep it from leaking. It doesn't need to be put on there with a wrench and tighten down with a wrench. Just needs to be handtight. Just going to pull that off. Now, here's your exposed filter. That filter will actually just come free. And that filter, you want to take it out to a hose and squirt it off really good. Clean it out really good. Make sure there's no debris up inside your cap. Going to put that filter back on. Going to stick it down inside. And I I like to take around my threads right here. I like to take some some packing lubricant and put it around these threads just so any paint doesn't dry on there. and glue that on there. There's any debris or anything like that and always keep them loose and keep it so it's just handtight. Just going to put it back on. Screw it down. Hand tight. It's good to go. That's how quick you can clean a filter. You want to actually clean that filter depending

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