In a nutshell, Graco Airless Texture Sprayers are developed to use heavy, high viscosity products. Common Airless Paint Sprayers do fantastic with medium to low viscosity materials, but are not as excellent with the greater viscosity products, where every PSI counts. An Airless Texture Sprayer can do both! This is since nearly every part that touches the liquid being sprayed is oversized when compared to a specification-equivalent Airless Paint Sprayer. From the pump, all the way to the weapon, parts are created with big openings developed to minimize backpressure and maximize circulation. This would be comparable to putting a big diameter exhaust system on your car to maximize horse power.
When comparing Paint and Texture sprayers, the very first thing that aesthetically stands 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 product enters, and where the check ball system lies. There are essentially 2 various styles of airless pumps, paint pumps and texture pumps. On a paint pump, this foot valve is raised from the ground and makes use of a siphon tube. Think of the siphon as a straw, from which the pump uses to draw the material from a bucket. In contrast, a texture pump has a longer pump body, no siphon tube, and the foot valve is situated near the ground. This gets rid of the need to suck through a "straw". This ends up being extremely essential when trying to draw heavy products into the pump. Think how hard it is to draw a thick milk shake through a straw, and you begin to get the concept of what a paint pump would be faced with. A texture pump would be equivalent to putting your face right into the milk shake: no straw required. Not great table manners, but absolutely reliable! Aside from the visible pump differences, there are likewise internal pump distinctions, while not obvious, play a vital function in good pump efficiency with high viscosity materials. Most of these distinctions remain in the foot valve design. Without getting too technical, let's just state that these elements have actually been fastidiously enhanced to most effectively pump high and low viscosity products. At, we call this Technology.
MaxFlo is a technology unique to Graco, and it is basic on all of our Airless Texture Sprayers. To put MaxFlo into real-world perspective, when comparing pump inlet circulation information (with high viscosity material) between a texture pump and a paint pump, MaxFlo provides 4X more material to the pump than a specification-similar paint pump. This is crucial to getting the required efficiency for heavy-bodied product. If you can't load the pump, you can't effectively spray the material, so the video game is currently over. matter what you are spraying, hose pipe choice is constantly important. Whether you are talking hose size, hose pipe length, pressure rating, or other variables, it is vital to appropriate functioning of the spray system to have actually the correctly sized hose for the task. Typically speaking, bigger is constantly better! The larger the pipe implies less backpressure, which in turn means more pressure readily available at the gun. Understanding this, texture sprayers come geared up with larger size pipe than a comparable paint sprayer. This leads to 2X the flow area to move material, less pressure drop, and more available pressure at the gun. When once again, optimizing circulation is crucial.
Pump and pipe design is not the only thing that enters into developing maximized circulation. The style of the weapon is important to peak efficiency. Why take full advantage of circulation through all the other elements, just to have it choked down at the weapon? This is why all Graco texture sprayers have actually unique weapons developed and enhanced for optimum flow. This consists of eliminating obstacles such as filters and oversizing passages to increase flow and lower material pack-out. To put it in perspective, texture weapons have up to 5.5 X larger internal passages than paint guns. This is another method Graco increases flow and reduces backpressure. Taking a look at standard paint weapons, they usually have extremely small diameter passageways and utilize here filters. This is due to smaller sized pointer orifice sizes utilized with paint, which can obstruct without filtering. While this is a terrific setup for lower viscosity materials, it is not perfect for heavier bodied products with high viscosity. Thankfully, both paint and texture weapons are able to make use of the very same spray pointers. All Graco Airless Texture Sprayers come geared up with RAC X SwitchTips, which are developed to have the longest long lasting fan pattern in the market. They also have the widest variety of pointer sizes, consisting of WideRAC, which can spray as much as a 24 inch spray fan.