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Understand Tip Configuration and Performance Benefits

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The dual head extension could make spraying paint faster and more efficient! What are your thoughts?

What happens here

The presenter elaborates on the advantages of using the dual-head tip extension. He explains that by using two 515 airless spray tips, the setup effectively creates a spray pattern equivalent to a 1215 tip (a 12-inch fan width with a .015-inch orifice size), which is a size not typically available as a single tip. This configuration offers significant benefits such as better control over overspray, reducing airborne paint particles, and minimizing fallout, especially wet overspray. The wider pattern allows for much faster and more efficient application, which is particularly useful for painting large exterior surfaces. He notes his preference for 515 tips for exteriors, emphasizing that this tool doubles that efficiency.

Goal: Explain how dual tips create a wider pattern and the benefits of this configuration.

Tools and materials

  • 515 Airless Spray Tips ExitFlexTo create the combined 1215 spray pattern

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This is something you would use. So it's got 2, 5, 15 tips on it. So the question is, I've heard people say, well why not just use a 12 tip? So a 12, like 12, 21, 12, 26. I sure if it goes down to 12, 19, they don't have a 12, 15. So this helps control over spray, helps control fall out, let over spray, and it's way more beneficial to get the width on the smaller tip size. I like spraying the exteriors with 5, 15 tips. So now I got 2, 5, 15s. I've turned it into a 12, 15. I can spray a pretty big bath. Pretty big bath.

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