Yesterday, I finished caulking toe plates in preparation for painting in a
new addition. An amazing amount of air infiltration between toe plates and
slab. So, I figured I'd get out the Graco XR7 just to make sure it was
running. Not. SWMBO was in a very serious mode, as we have a couple of
friends coming to help us paint. Not good. SCHEDULES MUST BE MAINTAINED,
OR THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE.

Having all kinds of flashbacks on how to get it rebuilt over the holidays.
Then, just started taking it apart. Piston was frozen in there due to old
paint. I had cleaned it last time I used it, but apparently need to clean
it more. I'm going to do it with warm water this time.

It is a remarkably simple system, and pretty self explanatory once you start
digging in. I bet it would have cost $100 at a shop. I'm sure that I
should have replaced O rings and such, but I fired it up, and it seemed not
to have any leaks. I will send for a rebuild kit, replace the O rings, boil
out the paint in the recesses, and put it back together again.

Being handy with tools and mechanical things really comes in handy some
times.

Steve