Set Up and Operate Texture Sprayer

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