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Video by The Idaho Painter

The Idaho Painter

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This project demonstrates how to effectively utilize a 'sprayer saver' tool to prevent a paint sprayer from sucking air when the paint level in the bucket is low. By tilting the bucket, the tool ensures the sprayer's intake tube remains submerged in paint, allowing for maximum paint usage and preventing potential damage to the sprayer's pump.

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So I'm working with my sprayer. The thing started sucking air. I've got, you know, maybe a half a gallon of paint in there and I'm going to use a sprayer saver. A sprayer saver will just have your 5-gallon bucket or gallon bucket or quart tilted right there. Now your paint's going to move to one side and you're not going to suck air. You can get all the way down to just a tiny bit of paint. So it's pretty cool. Instead of using like rags, a rock, a caulking gun and tilting on there, this is extremely stable. It's got grooves in it right there that keep it locked right in place. So just set it there. Now it's going to sit just where I need it to. All the paint's going to run down there and I won't suck air again. As soon as it started sucking air, I was like, "Oh my gosh, I need to get a sprayer saver and cuz I don't want to have to go buy another gallon of paint just so I can keep this thing primed." So the sprayer saver is going to save your sprayer from sucking air and wearing your pump out.

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