How to Setup your Paint Gun to Spray a Car Guide!

Where is the essence of the pattern? How do we know what is happening? Everyone and welcome back to another episode of Paint Society. The channel where learning doesn't stop when the video ends. Today we have a great one for you. A really important basic. How to set up

your

gun to

paint

a car or any car part, so let's go ahead and jump right into the cockpit. I have a little

setup

table for you or I'm going to learn some things today, okay, class for today, what are we going to do. Are we going to use this table?

Let's learn about fan fluid in the air. The three basic settings we will need to get a good

spray

pattern. Once we learn it, we will apply it immediately. our bumper, which is the easiest way and the best way, I think is for you guys to learn so we can see exactly what we're doing, we're going to show you how the

paint

is applied, we're going to zoom in on the paint and I'm going to show you what's going on, so let's start today. What we're going to use is a sealant first because that's what the bumper will need, so let's get familiar with our paint gun first.

In our paint gun, first we have our pressurized air. it comes in at the bottom, it goes through the entire paint gun, it atomizes the paint so it's released through the nozzle and onto the panel, so the air is very important, but we're not going to adjust the air yet, so First what are we going to do? What I do is take a look at what all this does. Now I am. I chose the GTI pro light because it is a very traditional gun and matches many other guns on the market now and all the basic guns are very similar on the bottom.

I keep the air adjustment valve fully open so you can put it all the way in and then turn it all the way so it stays fully open. Next we have our liquid. Now that I have my PPS with the sealant out, I can I'll show you how we set it up and what a good baseline it is, so first I'm going to squeeze the handle all the way in and I'm going to remove this and just until it comes off good, if it It comes out, we place it. Right now, I'm going to twist this until I get resistance.

Well, at this point, here and stopped moving. Well, if I released the trigger, it would still move, so let's step back one more time, pull the trigger, and rotate it. the movement stops, this setting here is called fully open, the fluid is now in a fully open setting and we can adjust from fully open so we can make one turn from fully open two turns from fully open I like to adjust one turn at a time time, so let's open this wide once again, the trigger cortex turns to the right, which is clockwise until it stops now, this is our fan control right on the top, it's different from our fluid and it controls how wide the pattern is, okay, so some fans can be super wide, some fans can be a little small and I'll show you what fanning on the board means in just a moment because here we keep it completely outside and we can only give it a little bit of a quarter. one twist just to clean up our edges now let's apply what we've learned through the spell we just discussed about fan fluid and air once again we have our air we have our fluid and we have our fan you keep this wide open and we adjust it from here free now we're going to put our air around 22 now just because it's at 29 now doesn't necessarily mean it's going to

spray

at 29 you want just

your

air when you have the trigger cooled at least halfway talking about which one when you pull it halfway , only air comes out, if you pull it further, liquid comes out, so this is the pattern we are going to discuss now.

This is what we want our pattern to look like. It should never be too heavy or too heavy. heavy we want to be this distance from the panel, so to do that you're going to take your pinky and your thumb and place your middle fingers down and that's the distance you want it to be from your panel, okay, from that distance we're going to recreate this pattern of spray right here at about 23 psi, as we can see now, they are very similar if it was white on the top or white on the bottom and thin in the middle, that means these little holes here are not clean and they don't allow air spray properly to demonstrate that I'm going to cover one of these little holes with duct tape, so now we put a little piece of duct tape right there and we're going to try it.

To represent what it would be like if you had not cleaned your gun and watched my video on how to properly clean a gun, look at the pattern you see on the bottom, how it is much wider than the top, on the bottom you can see, it is a thin and what that would mean is that you might have too much liquid going to the bottom and that kind of thing could make you run on one of your panels, huh, let's take it off and try again now with it removed. Take a look and we'll see what our pattern looks like.

We have a correct pattern, a correct pattern, and a pattern that skews to one side and is thick at the bottom. Here we have a nice pattern like I said because it's It's nice and yet, that could just be from having a paint gun that's not clean. Now let's discuss when we can use our fan and activate it and what are some of the capabilities of the actual gun and what are we going to do now. you're turning our fan all the way in now, when you turn it on your pressure actually increases well, it doesn't actually increase by a meter, but you're sending a lot more feet into a small area instead of spreading them out a fan, remember, a wide fan it's like that when you mark it all the way down, you take all that paint and you bring it to a little circle so you can run it very easily, let me show you what it is all the way.

By rotating the fan it looks like now we're going to represent that point right next to it like this, so just by rotating it, that's what happens now, we're going to rotate it about one turn since the fan gets a little bit bigger, another turn a little more. bigger, let's make it a little bit more, a little bit bigger, so this is pretty much your fan, okay, so we dial it all the way in and lower the pressure and add our fluid, we can almost get really creative with it. because if it can get so fine, did you see that I barely activated it?

Well, they don't have to pull it at all, they can barely throw it away and it's like a bit of an airbrush, so if you have an area where you need to just blow air into the corner of the door where you might get burned. You can open the fan a little, you can introduce the liquid and lower the pressure. Now it's all fun right, but this is really good, it will really help you write your name on a car, yes it can be cool, but we need to know where we should spray when we have our gun optimized for the perfect setting.

Where is the boss's meat? How do we know that? Well, let's go back to our initial configuration that I showed you before. Remember the fan is completely open, give it a little twist to clear that and those edges take your fluid and I'm going to do it the other way around I'm going to disconnect the air I'm going to do it the other way around so the fluid doesn't come out of the gun I'm going to take it out of the everything I'm going to pull the trigger one more time I'm going to push it and turn it in until it stops.

I am completely open. I am right where I want to be. You are going to play with the air pressure with the fan. Remember that you need enough air to fill it. fan, let's talk about a WS 400 for example, that gun has a huge fan, if it has enough air it won't fill the fan and you will just have a lot of dry mist in the air now that we have our gun ready. above let's make believe that our panel is right here where we want the meat of the actual fan hole to be where the best optimization is, the best detail is right in that area, that's why we use this distance, so if we are spraying we should be by here and we want this area right here where you're spraying so far away, we're just going to get dust, but if our panel is here, we're going to get what matters most and what matters most is that thick block. of atomization look at it here very far away look, we have an inconsistent spray pattern now let's go just the right distance Do you see the difference in the spray pattern?

Do you see how beautiful it is now, let's apply it right here? Okay, so we just apply what we learned here with the air pressure fluid on your fan and we apply it to our bumper, so we take our board and now we're applying it to see it work in real life, let's take a look, it What we have here is we just spray our sealer. Now this is going to lay flat and then we have the edge of our fan. Now we like to have a really nice smooth edge and look at the size of the droplets.

See how fine they are? Well, let's pretend we've had lower pressure. Remember. that video about how their fur breaks and I talked about atomization and how the big blobs don't like each other and they just sit out there and we want fine chocolates, that's exactly what we have here, so what I'm going to do now en I'll continue with about an 80% overlap over the entire bumper. Take a look at those fine droplets, nice and smooth, just what we want. Remember this is a sealant, so what I'm going to do is continue to finish this off. I'll show you See what it looks like when it's all done so I really hope this gun

setup

video helped you as you can see our bumper here is very nicely painted and it's completely flat because we had a fan and a control Nice and consistent fluids combined with our air pressure. thanks for the charm, if you have any more questions be sure to drop a line in the comments, give me some time.

I always come back to my comments and this is Brian from King, he decided to remind you not to overthink it, it's just painting, see you next time