Cleaning Spray Gun With Lacquer Thinner

These are the tips dan erlewine teaches to the guys who work in his guitar repair shop.

Cleaning spray gun with lacquer thinner. It seems that the thinner doesnt do the best job to begin with. Both are vary damaging to many materials so i just use caution. Maybe that is all there is but i sure would like to use something cheaper. Not so problematic when filled with water or alcohol but i use xylene and lacquer thinner.

For the price i think the design is definitely lacking. Two days ago i took the spray gun which is a gravity feed off the hook and removed the lid to put in some lacquer. Behlen nitrocellulose stringed instrument lacquer. The chemicals also dissolve grease and oil more readily than paint thinner making lacquer thinner a better choice for cleaning tools auto parts and other metal machine components.

Unclogging a spray gun and keeping it clean. If the paint still wont come off tear the gun down and use some acetone to do a detail cleaning as the paint gun manufacturers recommend. Devilbiss dpc8 spray gun cleaning bottle 16 oz. After that remove the nozzle by twisting it away from the spray gun.

So there was no reason to clean the gun which amounts to nothing more than running lacquer thinner through it. Is there anything else out there to use besides 1000 a gallon thinner. Put lacquer thinner in a glass bowl and tip the cap and nozzle in leaving them for 15 minutes. Both of these need to be soaked.

I use laquer thinner but dont leave it in the gun for a long time it can damage the o rings and seals. What is a simple way that does not require a paint gun cleaner or much clean up thinner. The chemicals in lacquer thinner dissolve the resins more easily than paint thinner which doesnt mix well with lacquer at all. Here you go learn how you can clean your paint gun by hand without a paint gun washer with only 2 oz.

To start cleaning the hvlp spray gun remove the cap. Forum responses finishing forum. I use lacquer thinner on minei have two of those and unless it says not to with the booklet you got with ityou can use ittheres not much to clean on those normally if its a cup over gun just the cup and the end nozzle is all that usually needs cleanedi let thinner set in mine over night and then spray it all out the next dayand then run clean thinner back through it againi have had. Turn it counter clockwise and take it off the nozzle of the spray gun.