In a nutshell, Graco Airless Texture Sprayers are developed to use heavy, high viscosity products. Common Airless Paint Sprayers do great with medium to low viscosity products, however are not as great with the higher viscosity products, where every PSI counts. An Airless Texture Sprayer can do both! This is since almost every part that touches the liquid being sprayed is oversized when compared to a specification-equivalent Airless Paint Sprayer. From the pump, all the method to the weapon, parts are designed with big openings created to decrease backpressure and optimize circulation. This would resemble putting a large diameter exhaust system on your lorry to make the most of horse power.
When comparing Paint and Texture sprayers, the first thing that visually sticks out is the location of the pump foot-valve (figure a). The pump foot valve is the opening at the bottom of the pump where the material gets in, and where the check ball system lies. There are generally two different designs of airless pumps, paint pumps and texture pumps. On a paint pump, this foot valve rises from the ground and uses a siphon tube. Consider the siphon as a straw, from which the pump utilizes to draw the product from a pail. In contrast, a texture pump has a longer pump body, no siphon tube, and the foot valve lies near the ground. This gets rid of the requirement to suck through a "straw". This ends up being really crucial when trying to suck heavy products into the pump. Believe how difficult it is to draw a thick milk shake through a straw, and you begin to understand of what a paint pump would be confronted with. A texture pump would be comparable to putting your face right into the milk shake: no straw needed. Bad table manners, however absolutely effective! Aside from the visible pump differences, there are likewise internal pump differences, while not obvious, play a vital function in excellent pump performance with high viscosity materials. The majority of these differences remain in the foot valve style. Without getting too technical, let's simply state that these components have been meticulously enhanced to most successfully pump low and high viscosity products. At, we call this Innovation.
MaxFlo is a technology exclusive to Graco, and it is standard on all of our Airless Texture Sprayers. To put MaxFlo into real-world point of view, when comparing pump inlet flow information (with high viscosity product) in between click here a texture pump and a paint pump, MaxFlo provides 4X more material to the pump than a specification-similar paint pump. This is important to getting the required performance for heavy-bodied material. If you can't pack the pump, you can't effectively spray the product, so the video game is currently over. matter what you are spraying, tube selection is always essential. Whether you are talking pipe size, tube length, pressure rating, or other variables, it is crucial to appropriate performance of the spray system to have actually the properly sized hose pipe for the task. Generally speaking, bigger is always better! The bigger the hose pipe indicates less backpressure, which in turn indicates more pressure readily available at the weapon. Understanding this, texture sprayers come equipped with larger diameter hose pipe than a similar paint sprayer. This leads to 2X the circulation location to move product, less pressure drop, and more readily available pressure at the weapon. As soon as once again, maximizing flow is key.
Pump and hose pipe design is not the only thing that goes into producing maximized flow. The design of the gun is vital to peak efficiency. Why take full advantage of circulation through all the other elements, just to have it choked down at the gun? This is why all Graco texture sprayers have unique weapons developed and optimized for maximum flow. This includes removing obstacles such as filters and oversizing passageways to increase flow and reduce material pack-out. To put it in perspective, texture guns have up to 5.5 X larger internal passages than paint weapons. This is another method Graco increases circulation and lowers backpressure. Taking a look at standard paint weapons, they usually have really little size passageways and use filters. This is due to smaller sized idea orifice sizes used with paint, which can block without filtering. While this is a fantastic setup for lower viscosity materials, it is not ideal for much heavier bodied products with high viscosity. Luckily, both paint and texture weapons have the ability to use the exact same spray suggestions. All Graco Airless Texture Sprayers come equipped with RAC X SwitchTips, which are designed to have the longest lasting fan pattern in the market. They likewise have the best variety of idea sizes, including WideRAC, which can spray up to a 24 inch spray fan.