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Caution Against Incompatible Solvents

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What To Clean An HVLP Spray Gun With

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It is critical to avoid using lacquer thinner (and by extension, mineral spirits, which are also solvent-based and can leave residue) with water-borne finishes. Lacquer thinner will not effectively break down water-based materials; instead, it will cause them to gum up. Furthermore, lacquer thinner leaves an oily residue inside the spray gun. If you then spray a water-based material through a gun with this residue, it will pull the oily substance out, contaminating your surface and potentially causing defects like 'fish-eye' in your finish.

Goal: Avoid using lacquer thinner (or mineral spirits) with water-borne finishes as it will gum up the material and leave an oily residue, leading to contamination.

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using things like lacquer thinner with water Bo with waterborne finishes is going to be a big no no a lot of people tend to try to do that but a lot if you've ever tried to do that lacquer thinner will not only make the water based materials gum up in many ways and not actually break them down and clean them but it actually lacer thinner leaves an oily residue in the spray gun as well so if you go back and you spray a water-based material after you've cleaned your gun with a lacer thinner you're going to end up pulling those that oily residue out of the gun with your uh material and it's going to end up causing all kinds of problems with contamination on your surface as we commonly call fisheye right so to avoid that what I like to do is when I'm done

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