Understand Cleaning Agent Compatibility

know I want to talk a little bit about we've got the Apollo atomizer 7700 gun and I want to talk about cleaning this gun because it is important to maintain it it is important to clean it and um maybe it might be important to lube it so you know can you give me um kind of like the rundown on how you would go about cleaning this gun say for instance um I'm using I use a lot of 2K polyes and they're water-based products you know what would I clean with and what would I not clean with that might cause some problems so good question Chris so there's a lot of uh stainless steel in the atomizer gun which really helps to clean uh to keep the gun in good order so it's not going to uh grab onto the Coatings and things like that so having good materials in the gun helps a lot but with the water-based materials the really the best thing to clean it up with is Believe it or not just some dishwashing soap and some good oldfashioned warm water and I love to just run it through with some warm water some dishwashing soap that usually grabs the material and pulls it out of the passageways and then there's certain components in that that you want to take apart on the gun to make sure that you're cleaning them properly but uh 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