Tools that should never be loaned out. 

by "Birddog" (maintmgt)
Published 03/24/2017 at 20:30

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I let a buddy use it last year and it came back “clean” with a 30pk attached. I didn’t look too close. I should have. The guts were packed with hardened clear. Dammit!

(Yes, it’s just a cheap HF gun. It works as well as a $500 Binks gun for what I do though)

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"Alfalfa" (alfalfa-romeo)
03/24/2017 at 20:42, STARS: 0

Mmm, purple.

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
03/24/2017 at 21:18, STARS: 0

I’ve never had to clean one of those out before. Looks like a real pain. Closest thing I’ve had to deal with is unclogging one of these airless guns, and they come apart in the middle:

"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/24/2017 at 21:37, STARS: 0

The internals are similar. Pain doesn’t begin to describe it.

It still doesn’t feel right but We’re going anyway. It’s only the base coat.

"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
03/24/2017 at 22:00, STARS: 0

Toss it and just get a new one. Too much of a pain and sometimes not worth rolling the dice with non-hardware store paint.

Also, go for a high flow quick disconnect if that’s not one.

"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/24/2017 at 22:04, STARS: 0

This gun and I have bonded. I can’t ditch something I’ve bonded with.

"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
03/24/2017 at 23:30, STARS: 1

Aren’t those like $9.99? I don’t mean to be offensive but I would just never clean one and just throw it away. Well unless I had a bunch of little jobs to do than I probably wouldn’t.

Have you tried the “PROFESSIONAL” paint gun I picked one up for like $49.99 and I really like it. It is really well made surprisingly.

"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/24/2017 at 23:54, STARS: 0

Hey now! It was $29.95..

I have better guns. I can’t use them on an experiment though.

"Birddog" (maintmgt)
03/25/2017 at 00:10, STARS: 0

This gun will be heading to the great recycling yard in the sky after this excursion.

"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
03/25/2017 at 08:10, STARS: 0

Yup. They’ll keep running great if they are cleaned quickly and thoroughly, but if it sits it may not ever be quite right again.

"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
03/25/2017 at 13:21, STARS: 0

Oh see at that price I would totally clean it. BTW cleaning paint guns sucks! I usually just want to stand there and admire my work but instead I am stuck taking apart a fiddly precision instrument and brushing crap with smelly thinner.