spraying into a rag is not a good idea because one would have to hold the
rag
thus allowing the appropriate thinner to come in contact with ones skin and
hand.This would
run the risk of injecting said thinner into ones body.Airless spray people
know this is a quick trip to the hospital
and runs the risk amputation.
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On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:02:09 GMT, "Joe" wrote:

To clean finish out of my hvlp sprayer, I follow the instructions of
"spraying the appropriate thinner" through the gun. What I didn't like is
the cloud of "appropriate thinner" that this produced. After doing this
for
more times than I care to admit to, I came up with the idea of removing
the
air horns, then turning the turbine on just enough to pressurize the cup,
shutting it off and *then* spraying the thinner through. With no
atomizing
air flow, there's no cloud of thinner, no muss, no fuss, just a thin
stream
of thinner from the tip that goes right back into the mason jar. Heck,
with
this method, I run the same thinner through a couple of times before one
final rinse with fresh stuff and the gun is much cleaner as a result.

Again, probably obvious for long-time sprayers (Robert ;-) ), but it just
dawned on me.

jc


Spraying into a bunched up rag works pretty well.