First off get some pot liners. Makes cleaning the pot easy. Then I run
MEK through the gun to clean out most of the paint. Then grab the wrench
and pull the valves and tip and needles out. Use small brushes and clean
the gun real good. Once that's done toss the needles and tip in a glass
jar with thinner in it. To clean the outside of the pot I just cheat a
bit and wipe it down with Vaseline prior to spraying. Then the paint
just wipes off because it cannot stick.

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Steve Williams

"Steve B" wrote in message
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I just sprayed some wrought iron with my spray rig. I have a Husky
compressor and a generic paint pot (one quart or so) sprayer.

When done, I spray some solvent through the rig, flush the paint from
the
pot with the solvent, and store with some solvent in the pot. The
solvent
depends on the type of paint I am using.

Over time, there is a buildup of dried paint all over the sprayer. I
know
it is down in the channels. I usually just keep using it, take it
apart a
time or two and clean it in a bath of lacquer thinner or some solvent,
and
reassemble, giving me some more life. I go through and put small
wires
through the ports and channels, but never seem to get it all.

What do you use to clean the paint off? Is there something that will
literally eat the paint off but not corrode the metal? The surface of
the
spray nozzle are particularly vulnerable where the venturi sprayers
are that
suck the paint out of the pot and atomize it. After a few times, they
clot
up, and have to be cleaned.

Any ideas? What do you do? Or do you just use it until it becomes a
PITA,
and then go buy another for $40 like I do?

Steve





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