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Optimal Tip Choices for Exterior Tasks

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What Airless Spray Tip Is Right For You? What Do The Numbers Mean?

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When undertaking exterior repainting projects, the speaker strongly recommends a 515 airless spray tip for the main body of the house, garage doors, and man doors. This tip provides a good balance of coverage and helps manage overspray in areas where neighboring properties or vehicles are a concern. For new construction, where overspray is typically less of an issue, larger tips like a 619 (12-inch fan, 0.019-inch orifice) or even a 1221 (24-inch fan, 0.024-inch orifice) can be used to paint much faster. However, for the detailed work of repainting, such as front doors and gutters, a 310 tip (6-inch fan, 0.010-inch orifice) is advised. This smaller tip offers better atomization and control, resulting in a smoother, glass-like finish, which is ideal for surfaces like metal doors and powder-coated gutters. Using a 310 also minimizes runs due to less paint flow and significantly reduces overspray in tighter areas like downspouts.

Goal: Match the appropriate airless spray tip to specific exterior painting surfaces for best results.

Tools and materials

  • 1221 Airless Spray Tip TitanExtremely fast painting on new construction exteriors with minimal overspray concerns
  • 310 Airless Spray Tip TitanPainting front doors, gutters, and downspouts requiring a fine finish and precise control
  • 515 Airless Spray Tip TitanPainting main body of house, garage doors, man doors
  • 619 Airless Spray Tip TitanFaster painting on new construction exteriors where overspray is not a major concern
  • PaintApplication to exterior surfaces

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than a 515 you there's times when you don't want a ton of paint going onto the surface because it might run due to the product that you're using you'll drop down in an orvus size so you can control the overspray by the fan width you can also control overspray and um lost product by the orifice size for quite a few years I used a 619 and the 619 is going to give you a big fan a bigger fan width and it's going to be a bigger oversiz so it's going to throw out more pain if you feel like you're going too slow with a 515 you want to speed it up uh going to a 619 is going to give you the ability to go faster you know eventually I came to you know the speed that I need to go with a 515 the overlap I need to go with a 515 and it worked really well it's a great tip to teach teach new people to use also on exteriors when it came to new construction exteriors we actually were even using 122s cuz you you don't you're not concerned about overspray cuz it's just dirt everywhere most of the houses aren't even painted there's um no people living in the houses it's new construction and so you can actually paint extremely fast you know with a 1221 but we're talking you know actually repaints um a lot of liability with overspray with um close by neighbors you know um vehicle um in the neighborhood and stuff like that so 515 you know to me is um my recommended tip size for doing next year repaints for the body garage M doors Etc now I'll talk about a 310 a 310 tip is what I use to paint a front door and what I paint uh use paint gutters 70% of the houses have gutters on them uh they are powdercoated finishes uh kind of like a front door a front door is typically a metal front door and we want a smooth um you know glasslike finish on front door you get better atomization you get better control with a uh 310 and a better finish in the end we're typically using a 310 fine finish tip and a fine finish tip is going to atomize the paint on the droplets the paint smaller it's going to lay it out better it's not going to lay it out so heavy that it's going to take a long time for it to dry a 310 is a good width a good fan width it covers you know one pass um the face of the gutter one pass the bottom of the gutter a 310 you know it's a 6in fan width and 310 is great for spraying the front doors you got you got to spray the edges typically um sometimes the bottom and the top and you're not going to have a lot of overspray with a 310 uh sometimes we're using a 310 to do the down spouts…

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