In a nutshell, Graco Airless Texture Sprayers are developed to apply heavy, high viscosity products. Typical Airless Paint Sprayers do terrific with medium to low viscosity products, but are not as excellent with the higher viscosity materials, where every PSI counts. An Airless Texture Sprayer can do both! This is due to the fact that 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 method to the weapon, parts are designed with big openings created to reduce backpressure and optimize flow. This would be comparable to putting a big diameter exhaust system on your vehicle to optimize horse power.
When comparing Paint and Texture sprayers, the very first thing that visually stands out is the area of the pump foot-valve (figure a). The pump foot valve is the opening at the bottom of the pump where the product goes into, and where the check ball system is located. There are basically 2 various designs of airless pumps, paint pumps and texture pumps. On a paint pump, this foot valve rises from the ground and utilizes a siphon tube. Believe of the siphon as a straw, from which the pump utilizes to suck the material from a bucket. On the other hand, a texture pump has a longer pump body, no siphon tube, and the foot valve lies near the ground. This gets rid of the need to draw through a "straw". This ends up being really important 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 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 required. Bad table manners, however absolutely efficient! Aside from the visible pump distinctions, there are likewise internal pump differences, while not obvious, play an important function in great pump performance with high viscosity products. Many of these differences are in the foot valve style. Without getting too technical, let's just say that these parts have actually been meticulously optimized to most successfully pump low and high viscosity materials. At, we call this Innovation.
MaxFlo is an innovation unique to Graco, and it is standard on all of our Airless Texture Sprayers. To put MaxFlo into real-world perspective, when comparing pump inlet flow data (with high viscosity product) between a texture pump and a paint pump, MaxFlo delivers 4X more material to the pump than a specification-similar paint pump. This is important to getting the needed efficiency for heavy-bodied product. If you can't pack the pump, you can't efficiently spray the material, so the video game is already over. matter what you are spraying, hose choice is always important. Whether you are talking tube diameter, hose length, pressure ranking, or other variables, it is vital to proper performance of the spray system to have actually the correctly sized tube for the task. Typically speaking, larger is constantly better! The bigger the pipe implies less backpressure, which in turn means more here pressure readily available at the gun. Knowing this, texture sprayers come geared up with larger diameter tube than a similar paint sprayer. This results in 2X the circulation area to move material, less pressure drop, and more readily available pressure at the gun. As soon as once again, optimizing circulation is crucial.
Pump and hose style is not the only thing that goes into developing maximized circulation. The design of the weapon is crucial to peak performance. Why optimize flow through all the other components, only to have it choked down at the weapon? This is why all Graco texture sprayers have actually special weapons developed and enhanced for optimum flow. This consists of removing barriers such as filters and oversizing passages to increase flow and reduce product pack-out. To put it in point of view, texture weapons have up to 5.5 X bigger internal passageways than paint weapons. This is another way Graco increases circulation and decreases backpressure. Looking at traditional paint weapons, they usually have very little diameter passages and use filters. This is because of smaller tip orifice sizes utilized with paint, which can clog without filtering. While this is an excellent setup for lower viscosity materials, it is not perfect for heavier bodied products with high viscosity. Thankfully, both paint and texture guns have the ability to utilize the exact same spray suggestions. All Graco Airless Texture Sprayers come equipped with RAC X SwitchTips, which are designed to have the longest enduring fan pattern in the market. They likewise have the best variety of suggestion sizes, including WideRAC, which can spray up to a 24 inch spray fan.