Der Bugmeister
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- Dec 29, 2005
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Figured I'd pick up a paint sprayer to speed up the garage...rental sprayers (professional style) were $70 a day and I didn't want to buy the damned thing but I'd need it for at least 3 days. I had an old electric sprayer, but it gave up the ghost after a few test shots...it was around 20 years old.
So, I bought a Wagner airless sprayer, almost identical to this one.
The sales pitch goes like this:
Wee-e-e-e-e-llllll letme tellya....
I was completely unhappy with the thing. One of the biggest draws was the suction tube to pull the paint right out of the can. Unfortunately, the tube is only 6' long (most ceilings being 8', of course) and made from a stiff tubing material. After trying to straighten it out, the best I could do was using the sprayer around 3' away from the paint can, and every time I moved the thing, the pickup tube flipped up out of the paint. Unsat.
On the few test sprays I did before giving up on the suction line, using medium weight latex primer (which the description says shouldn't be a problem), I couldn't get a decent pattern. Heavy concentration in the centre (about 2" wide) and light coverage beyond that, regardless of how I adjusted the volume. It regularly spat out globs of paint, and I wound up having to use the roller just to spread and smooth things out. Unsat.
Figuring I'd give it another chance, I thinned some primer down and put it into the plastic paint reservoir. No noticable improvement on the pattern, although the globs it spat weren't as big. The capacity of the reservoir is obviously not good if you're painting a large area, and I would have had to fill it 3 or 4 times to get decent coverage in the smallest room, 3' x 4'.
Naturally, it won't do ceilings unless you're either using the useless suction tube or buy a flexneck extension.
After spending $100 on masking materials, and a couple days masking, I wasn't exactly pleased. I took it back to the store (Canadian Tire) which refunded my money without any problem at all. (Thanks CT!)
This might be a good unit if you're staining a fence (watch for wasted overspray), but certainly wasn't a good choice for medium to heavier paints.
So, I bought a Wagner airless sprayer, almost identical to this one.
The sales pitch goes like this:
Wee-e-e-e-e-llllll letme tellya....
I was completely unhappy with the thing. One of the biggest draws was the suction tube to pull the paint right out of the can. Unfortunately, the tube is only 6' long (most ceilings being 8', of course) and made from a stiff tubing material. After trying to straighten it out, the best I could do was using the sprayer around 3' away from the paint can, and every time I moved the thing, the pickup tube flipped up out of the paint. Unsat.
On the few test sprays I did before giving up on the suction line, using medium weight latex primer (which the description says shouldn't be a problem), I couldn't get a decent pattern. Heavy concentration in the centre (about 2" wide) and light coverage beyond that, regardless of how I adjusted the volume. It regularly spat out globs of paint, and I wound up having to use the roller just to spread and smooth things out. Unsat.
Figuring I'd give it another chance, I thinned some primer down and put it into the plastic paint reservoir. No noticable improvement on the pattern, although the globs it spat weren't as big. The capacity of the reservoir is obviously not good if you're painting a large area, and I would have had to fill it 3 or 4 times to get decent coverage in the smallest room, 3' x 4'.
Naturally, it won't do ceilings unless you're either using the useless suction tube or buy a flexneck extension.
After spending $100 on masking materials, and a couple days masking, I wasn't exactly pleased. I took it back to the store (Canadian Tire) which refunded my money without any problem at all. (Thanks CT!)
This might be a good unit if you're staining a fence (watch for wasted overspray), but certainly wasn't a good choice for medium to heavier paints.
for selling such a awful sprayer. They should spend less on marketing it and more on design.