Paint volume

[Jersey Mike]

Do you guys spray with your volume control wide open on the gun? Does it depend on what your painting or once the gun is set right you dont mess with it?

[88GT]

A mix of the lowest preasure and the best automization.

[Steve g]

Do you guys spray with your volume control wide open on the gun? Does it depend on what your painting or once the gun is set right you dont mess with it?

There's two or more different schools of thought/practises when it comes to volume adjustment. Some use it wide open, or very nearly. I set mine by the "cigar" method. I set it so that a quick full squeeze, as fast as you can fully open it and close it, leaves a cigar shapped pattern on a piece of masking paper with the gun the distance from the paper that I will be using it. I adjust so that it just fills in the ends of the cigar nicely.

Of course, either way you adjust the speed at which you move the gun based on how the paint's hitting the surface. Ie, if you have it wide open you are going to be moving the gun faster than the adjustment I use.

Mine gets set everytime I use it or change material in a session. It gets disassembled for cleaning so you start over anyways.

Pressure I'll set dependant on what I'm shooting as well, usually staying within the recommended zone.

Steve g

[Jersey Mike]

Thanks guy. I was just curius b/c today I sprayed with it wide open and had really good results.

[easymoney]

i treat the volume control like the throttle on my car i leave the setting wide open but feather it as needed depending on the panel i am spraying. pull it lightly when overlapping on corners or around wheel openings.

[Jersey Mike]

i treat the volume control like the throttle on my car i leave the setting wide open but feather it as needed depending on the panel i am spraying. pull it lightly when overlapping on corners or around wheel openings.

Makes sense. I think I'm going to spray with it wide open from now on.

[88GT]

after a while you will be able to set the gun up by how it sounds