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Spray Painting Techniques and Recommended Accessories

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The Idaho Painter LIVE

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For those learning to spray, the presenter advises starting in a small, contained area like a closet with a 310 tip to practice trigger control. He stresses the importance of releasing the trigger at the end of each pass. For exterior painting, he recommends larger tips like a 515 for optimal balance between speed and overspray control, or even a 619 for high production on new construction. He also highlights the benefits of RZ masks (cloth, charcoal filter, breathable) over traditional silicone masks, and Premier Windsor brushes (DuPont filaments, hand-made in New York) for precise cutting.

Goal: Provide fundamental spray painting techniques and recommend complementary accessories.

Tools and materials

  • 310 Tip — Practicing trigger control in small interior spaces
  • 515 Tip — Achieving a good balance of speed and overspray control on exteriors
  • 619 Tip — High-production painting, especially on new construction exteriors
  • Brush Buddy Charles Marks — Holding brushes hands-free
  • Premier Windsor Brush Premier — Precise cutting in and working on rough surfaces
  • RZ Mask RZ Mask — Protecting respiratory system from paint fumes and particles

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is a really bad thing so there's a fine line between being too stiff just right and too light so two fingers um the other thing is is this has packings in it that are um i think 40 less to repack a gun like this than like it than all the great guns or the lx 80 gun or rx80 gun significantly um significantly less money this the lx80 gun is really stiff so um and then the packing inside this the seat is reversible so the first packing is basically for free and um some of the guns out there like a contractor two gun if you buy an oem packing it's almost um you know not even cost effective to buy it and repack it you might as well just toss the gun this makes it so it's repackable so that's um a couple of really key features about this gun has some other things i really don't care about is like these things you know to i just think they get in the way but to hook on a ladder hook on your belt or something like that um i think you know the um the safety on it it's more like like a drill type safety so it's easy to access one thing i find is i have a lot of accidental set the gun down and now the safety's on that irritates me a whole lot so so that's enough for the gun somebody says which paint sprayer is the best good for professional use um that comes down to the budget so um and how much you're spraying if you're a professional painter my assumption is you're you're you're painting year-round i um is there i don't have a 440 we're gonna we're now a titan dealer so i'm gonna be selling titan pumps inside the um in the paint life store so that has no influence um or it doesn't make me biased here when it comes to the pumps um before i ever sold a pump here on the store i had um titan pumps use them for years i had a titan 440 and it was a 440 i had it for three years and um did interior exterior painting i did um repaints new construction i sprayed as small as 3-10 tips all the way up to 619 tips with that titan 440 absolutely amazing that is over like 20 years ago somewhere around there i still have the pump it still actually works i'm a big big believer in titan um small pumps this is um very similar to that pump this is a titan 410 so this is a newer version of the 440i and it doesn't have um it doesn't have like any bells and whistles on it it's very simple how that how what it has on there not very much the break and so very similar to the 440 i absolutely love this pump the 440 impact has some things like a push ball release valve on it has an automatic…

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