In a message dated 7/28/01 1:33:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, spitlist@gte.net
writes:
> Most paint guns have a tube that allows the air pressure inside the paint
> reservoir to equalize. If this becomes clogged (or partially so) the
> pressure will build up until the paint quits being sucked into the sprayer.
> It finally builds up enough that the clog is relieved temporarily and
> paint begins to flow.
> If this is your problem, remove the tube and run a wire as large as the ID
> of the tube through it to clear the blockage. Also do the same thing to
> both ends that the tube attaches to.
>
Bingo! The tube was a little clogged but the minuscule hole into the
reservoir itself was utterly and completely blocked.
Once again the list bests the experts. Or are the experts. After my earlier
post, I went to Home Depot where I bought the gun (Campbell Hausfeld DH6500)
and got an extremely helpful and extremely knowledgeable guy who really knew
his stuff and took a lot of time but still didn't hit on the correct
solution. He (we) decided it may be a problem with the compressor not the gun
because we'd considered everything else.
Obviously not.
Anyway, thanks, Joe. Maybe I can finish this yet.
Jim
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