u/scotchlinden

Water in paint sprayer after cleaning and hanging it to dry.

I've had this issue with two paint sprayers now and it seems like not a single person in all the internet has ever talked about it, so maybe there's something I'm missing here.

When I clean out my paint gun, I hang so that the nozzle is pointing downward and the water can fully drip out.

When I come back to it later, I tilt the gun the other direction to be sure I get all the water out from every angle.

But when I do my first practice spray of paint, I ALWAYS have a bit of water still in there, and sometimes even after I do that practice spray and start working on the actual piece, a sneaky drop will fall into my paint finish if I tilt the sprayer a LEETLE differently than all the other movement.

Am I missing something obvious? No one talks about drying out the paint sprayer but surely everyone has some water in the thing after cleaning? I can't be the only one!

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u/scotchlinden — 3 days ago