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Operate the Texture Spray Machine

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TEXTURE Tips!! Create a Knockdown Texture FAST...

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What happens here

The Graco TexSpray RTX 1250 is a texture machine featuring both a pump and an air compressor. For large jobs, the mud is loaded into the 10-gallon hopper on top. The machine has an on/off switch for power, a material flow knob, and a material source switch to select between using only the air compressor (for hopper guns) or the onboard pump (for the hopper feed). The operator should almost always run the machine at full pressure and control the material output using the gun's trigger. Different nozzle sizes are available; a tighter orifice creates a smaller texture, while a larger orifice produces a heavier texture. For the depicted mid-large knockdown texture, a mid-large orifice nozzle is used. Familiarity with the machine’s controls is key, but it's not overly complex.

Goal: This step covers the setup and operation of the Graco TexSpray RTX 1250 machine, including understanding its controls and selecting the appropriate nozzle size for the desired texture.

Tools and materials

  • Graco TexSpray RTX 1250
  • Nozzle (mid-large orifice)
  • Texture Spray Gun

What they say

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video all right we're ready to fire up our machine we've got our mud in here this is a Graco texture sprayer if we were doing a small job we typically use it we would typically be using a hopper and that's just a gun and a hopper the mud would go on top of the hopper but we've been doing a lot of text in in this house where we REM wallpaper so we're using a bigger machine the mud goes on the top this machine on the side you can explain John a little bit about the knobs and stuff if you've never used one of the one of these machines what they mean yeah so this has a pump and an air compressor on it and what it's going to do is is uh you can do actually two things with this you can use just the air compressor and there is a hopper attachment if you want to use kind of more of the traditional uh method of doing that or if you've just got small touch-ups that you need to do um or you can use the pump the on board with this and it'll feed out of this 10g Hopper and send the mud and the air up to your gun so it's going to use the air to basically create pressure behind the gun it's going to kind of split everything up there are a couple different nozzle sizes you want to find a nozzle size that's relative to the texture that you're trying to match so the tighter the orifice on that nozzle the smaller texture that you're going to have this is kind of a mid llarge knockdown texture so we've got kind of the mid llarge orice on our nozzle here and that's worked pretty well for trying to find a match and if you've never used a machine like this it may look intimidating but it's not that difficult to use right it's a piece of cake there's literally an onoff switch there's a uh a hopper or no Hopper switch so that'll turn the the pump for this Hopper off and only use air and then there's a little pressure gauge I almost always run it at full pressure and then I use the trigger to control how much material is coming out the more you pull pull that trigger back the more material is going to come out and the heavier of a texture you've got so using a little Fe a little feel with your trigger you're going to be able to really kind of fine tune how that texture looks as it's going out now when

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