Sprayer care
Look after your sprayer. It keeps paying you back.
Flush it, filter it, store it with Pump Armor. The parts and know-how to keep a Graco airless spraying, stocked and serviced in Brisbane.
Authorised Graco service and warranty agent · Deception Bay
Watch the clean-up
Six steps, start to finish.
Flushed with turps after an oil based paint. Use water after a water based paint. Check your manual for the full procedure.
1. Relieve the pressure
Pressure down, prime valve on.
2. Wipe off leftover paint
Grab a rag and get it all off.
3. Fill a bucket to flush
Water or turps to match your paint.
4. Flush through the pump
Until the paint runs thin.
5. Flush the hose and tip
Clear out every last bit of paint.
6. Store with Pump Armor
Run it through until it turns blue.
After every job
Five steps before it goes back in the van.
1. Relieve the pressure.
Follow the pressure relief procedure and lock the trigger before you touch the tip, filters or hose.
2. Flush until it runs clear.
Water for water based paint, a compatible fluid for oil based.
3. Clean the filters.
Clean and inspect the handpiece filter and the sprayer filter, and replace any that are damaged. Check the inlet strainer every day you spray.
4. Finish with Pump Armor.
Flushed with water? Flush again with Pump Armor to prevent freezing and corrosion.
5. Top up the TSL.
Before the next job, top up the Throat Seal Liquid at the fill point.
Never hold a leak with your hand or a rag. An injection injury needs a hospital straight away.
Care basics
Flush it, protect it, store it.
Filters
The right mesh for the paint.
Lower mesh is coarser. 60 mesh for primer and acrylic, 100 mesh for stain and lacquer.
By sprayer
Keep it running.
Pick your model for the wear parts that suit it. Not sure which one you have? Message us the model and serial from the data plate.
Ultra 390
With the FTX handpiece. The 390 PC takes the Contractor PC handpiece, so it uses cartridge 17Y297 instead.
Ultra 395, 450, 490 XT and 495 XT
650 XT
695 and 795 XT Standard
695 and 795 XT ProContractor
1095 XT Standard
1095 XT ProContractor
Mark V XT Standard
Mark V XT ProContractor
GX 19
GX 19 cordless
390 PC cordless
Handhelds
Handheld sprayers.
Ultra QuickShot
Ultra QuickShot II
Ultra and UltraMax handheld
Magnum
Magnum sprayers.
Magnum X5 and X7
Water based paint on a Magnum X5 or X7? Screw the Power Flush valve that comes with the sprayer onto a garden hose to flush it. Storing it for more than two days? Run Pump Armor through first.
Magnum ProX17 and ProX19
GO kits
Kits we put together.
In the van
Keep these in the van.
Spare tips
In your usual sizes, with a seal for each guard.
Filters
Gun and pump filters in your mesh.
Pump repair kit
The kit for your pump, so a worn packing doesn’t end the day.
Pump Armor and TSL
Pump Armor for storage, TSL for the packings.
Two spanners
For the hose fittings.
Service
Fix it yourself or bring it in.
A bench job
Paint at the top of the pump, pressure that fades, or it won’t prime after you’ve checked the suction side. A pump repair kit and the manual will usually sort it.
Our job
Electrical faults, a motor that won’t run, pressure that won’t regulate, or still no pressure after a repack. Bring it in.
We're an authorised Graco service and warranty agent. Bring it to Deception Bay or message us the model and serial.
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