Practice Spraying - WAGNER POWER PAINTER Owner's Manual

Safety Practice
Spraying
Start Start You will need:
• a scrap piece of wood or cardboard
Important - read before spraying
Priming the Sprayer
Once you are ready to spray, it may take 20
seconds for material to spray after you pull the
trigger.
The sprayer may sound choppy, while at the
same time spit or spray large globs briefly prior
to the spray coming out in a fine mist. This is
normal.
Keep holding the trigger and material will come
from the sprayer in a fine mist.
Overspray
Some sprayed materials create a cloud of paint.
Some of that cloud will spray past your intended
object and also bounce off of it. Wind and
air currents may cause this cloud to drift onto
surfaces not intended to be sprayed. You can
control the amount of overspray and bounce-
back by adjusting your material select control
and moving the sprayer closer to the work
piece, but always make sure that you have a
good spray pattern. Always test your pattern
on a scrap piece of wood or cardboard, and
make sure that you have drop cloths protecting
anything not being sprayed.
Anything you don't want painted that is in
the area of your spraying surface should be
covered or removed.
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Flow Control Knob
The spray pattern is controlled by the Flow Control Knob on
the rear of the sprayer, and by the thickness of the material
being sprayed.
Turning the flow knob counterclockwise increases the
amount of material flow. Turning the flow knob clockwise
decreases the amount of material flow.

Practice Spraying

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1. Turn the flow knob fully
counterclockwise to maximum.
3
3. Turn the flow knob clockwise
until you have a good spray
pattern.
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2
2. Point the sprayer at a scrap piece of wood or cardboard, and pull
the trigger to prime the sprayer. Release trigger when material
sprays evenly from the spray gun.
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a)
b)
4. A poor spray pattern (a) will
concentrate the paint in the center
of the spray pattern and go on
blotchy.
A good spray pattern (b) has
an even amount of material
throughout the pattern and will go
on smoothly.
Notes:
• Always practice spraying
on a piece of scrap wood or
cardboard to test your spray
pattern.
• If you adjust the flow knob and
still cannot get a good pattern,
you may need to thin the
material you are using. Always
test spraying without thinning
the material. Thin as required
to achieve optimum spraying
performance (refer to #4).
• If you are spraying a
material that needs to be
thinned, make sure to
follow the manufacturer's
recommendations.