Maintenance and cleanliness add to the life expectancy of your paint sprayer. If a paint spraying machine is left unclean after using it, the next time, you won’t be able to paint with it and face common problems like clogging of paint in different parts of the sprayer. 

Although paint spraying machines like Graco paint sprayers and Graco paint sprayer parts are one of the best on the market; however, even they will be ruined if the machine is left to rot away in the corner of your garage.

Cleaning and maintaining your paint sprayer machine is the easiest task; here are a few tips and tricks that will help you and facilitate you in your paint sprayer gun parts;

Cleaning of a Graco Paint Sprayer

If you ask all the professional painters the secret to making their paint spraying machines last longer than normal, they will suggest you nothing else than the proper cleaning and maintenance of your paint sprayer gun. There is no rocket science applied in order to paint sprayer; it takes only a few tricks and tips to master the technique. 

The first and most step in cleaning your paint sprayer machine is that you should never delay the cleaning process. Once you leave you’re spraying machine unclean, even for a day, your machine will get clogged and jammed with dust and debris, blocking the openings and ruining the paint sprayer's performance. 

As is the old saying, ‘prevention is better than cure,’ preventive measures help in ensuring the health of your paint sprayers, giving them a long-lasting performance boost. 

Safety Recommendations

Although the longevity of your paint spraying machine matters the most to you, you need to keep in view all the safety recommendations while working on the cleaning and maintenance of your paint spraying machine.

Paint sprayer machines are nothing less than the power washers where the paint is being propelled instead of the water with high pressure. And this high pressure can harm the user in many ways, so care is a necessary step in pressure washing your paint sprayer machines because the pressure at which the water is propelled through the gun is not safe. 

Supplies You Need To Clean Your Graco Paint Sprayers

You need to clean all the parts of your paint sprayer, so apart from the Graco paint sprayer parts, the necessary apparatus needed to clean your paint sprayer gun is;

Ø  Bucket of approx five gallon

Ø  Clean water

Ø  Paint thinner, pump armor, or lacquer thinner, any of these can be used

Ø  A towel or cloth for pat drying all the interior and exterior parts of your gun once you have washed it thoroughly with water.

Six Steps of Cleaning a Graco Airless Paint Sprayer

Pre Clean Preparation

Start with making sure that the power button of your paint sprayer is ‘off .’The next step is to remove extra/any pressure from the gun by using a primer. The next step in pre-clean preparation is the suction of the paint into empty/waste bucket. Now engage the lock of the trigger of your spray gun, and we are all set to go.

Rinse the Paint Tubes

Attach your garden hose to the power flush adapter of your gun. By closing the power flush valve, turn on the water from your garden hose, and flush all the inner paint tubes. Finish the step by closing the power flush valve.

Clean the Suction Tube

Attach the garden hose to the suction tube by removing the inlet strainer and attaching the power flush adapter to it. Put the drain tube in the waste buckets so that the drain of the tube moves to the waste bucket, and turn off the power flush valve. Now flow the water through the suction tube for a minimum of twenty seconds.

Drain Paint from Hose

The hose of your paint sprayer gun needs cleaning, too, in order to remove the paint stuck to the inner layer of the hose. To clean the paint hose, point your gun into the paint pail, and squeeze the trigger after disengaging the trigger. When the paint in your paint sprayer gun has been fully diluted with water, drain it into the waste bucket. 

Clean the Gun

How will you know that your gun is cleaned? An easy way of knowing that is when you see clean water coming out of the gun, it is cleaned. In order to do so, keep your gun in the clean water triggered for a minimum of two minutes; the clean water coming out from the gun is an indication that it is clean. Once this is done, engage the trigger lock and prime to relieve all and any pressure in the gun.

Final Steps

When you have finished all the above steps, your sprayer is clean now; the final step is to take a rag and dry all your gun's inner and outer parts to remove the water particles.