Electric Airless Sprayers

[Egbert]

I bought an airless sprayer from Lowes 4 or 5 years ago. At the time, I was just wanting to stain about 500 feet of privacy fence, so I picked up a less expensive model, one with a 2 gallon reservior. Works great and I've used it far more often than I anticipated.

If I can ever figure out a way to break it - I'll replace it with one that feeds directly from a 5 gallon bucket. Life would be so much simpler.

 

[woodlandfarms]

We have a titan. Works (ed) great. Issues is that you have to keep using a sprayer or it begins to fall apart. Seals get gummed up. I ended up having to tear ours apart, clean, purchase a few things and it appears to be working correctly again. Also, in the winter you want to watch for freezing.

 

[PRF]

I have to paint a barn and silo before Winter.. I'm thinking of renting an airless sprayer.

 

[aczlan]

We have a Graco self contained airless sprayer (IIRC its this one: Graco TrueCoat II Handheld Electric Airless Sprayer ) and like it. Holds ~1qt and is a PITA to clean, but its faster than rolling by a long shot.
Graco also makes a backpack that holds a gallon of paint: Graco ProPack Portable Spray Pack Backpack

Aaron Z

 

[Jesse masterson]

Anybody out there used the electro rotary airless painter, just picked on off e bay havent used it yet, it's made of stainless and seems well made, made in the USA when we made good stuff,I'd say in the 60s or 70s.

 

[ETpilot]

Not sure if this works for the quart size airless sprayers as I have never used one. I often use the quart size siphon sprayers. I get a quart size freezer bag and line the cup. Use the bag that you press to close not the type that has the slide to close. I roll the top of bag over the cup, fill with paint then attach to gun. Once done, I pour leftover paint into a container and throw the baggie away. No mess in the cup. Cleaning the gun is much easier than the cup full of paint. I have been using these bags for years with all types of paint products. Never a problem.

Now I see that cup liners are being sold. HF has them but I have not tried them.

 

[aczlan]

Not sure if this works for the quart size airless sprayers as I have never used one. I often use the quart size siphon sprayers. I get a quart size freezer bag and line the cup. Use the bag that you press to close not the type that has the slide to close. I roll the top of bag over the cup, fill with paint then attach to gun. Once done, I pour leftover paint into a container and throw the baggie away. No mess in the cup. Cleaning the gun is much easier than the cup full of paint. I have been using these bags for years with all types of paint products. Never a problem.
Not I see that cup liners are being sold. HF has them but I have not tried them.

Our Graco came with a half dozen bags to go in the paint cup.

Aaron Z

 

[Bird]

Not sure if this works for the quart size airless sprayers as I have never used one. I often use the quart size siphon sprayers. I get a quart size freezer bag and line the cup. Use the bag that you press to close not the type that has the slide to close. I roll the top of bag over the cup, fill with paint then attach to gun. Once done, I pour leftover paint into a container and throw the baggie away. No mess in the cup. Cleaning the gun is much easier than the cup full of paint. I have been using these bags for years with all types of paint products. Never a problem.

Not I see that cup liners are being sold. HF has them but I have not tried them.

Well, I learned something else new on TBN today. I have a one quart air, not electric, paint gun but never thought about using a bag in it, and never knew cup liners existed.

 

[Western]

Just throwing this out there.

I have seen commercial grade Graco airless sprayers for sale at several rental places over the years, usually in the $200-$400 range. Nice thing is, pumps are rebuildable (pump pack kits) can use 100' hose (comes with 50") and can use a 1 gal to 5 gal paint bucket. Most are on wheels so easy to move around and brother they can put out the paint. I have rented several and never had an issue. ( For work I use Graco airless sprayers for highway traffic paint, so I am a bit of a "fanboy")