Tips, Tricks & Professional Advice

TM Spray Equipment (formerly AccusprayTM)   Repair Parts & Accessories The Purpose of this table is to provide the most often needed repair parts for Accuspray guns. Scroll over to your model then scroll down to order parts and accessories for your model gun. Please call us at 262-784-5977 for parts you need that are not shown on this chart.   Metric Conversion Chart .021 .028 .036 .043 .051 .061 .072 .084 .110   0.5mm     0.7mm     0.9mm     1.1mm     1.3mm     1.5mm     1.8mm     2.0mm     3.0mm   Gun Rebuild Kits (less; tips, nozzles, & air cap) Description Part Number Gun Models 7 07HS 07HSP 10 10GP...

Conventional Air Spray Conventional air spray (siphon/gravity/pressure feed) is the oldest system, coming into prominence during the 1920's with the growth of the automobile and furniture industries. Advantages Conventional sir spray lays claim to two basic advantages over the other methods as follows. Control. This is the most controllable process available. The spray operator, when properly trained, can control the spray pattern from a fine dot to a large production-type spray pattern. This permits the spraying of small or large areas without changing guns or nozzles. Also the degree of atomization can be controlled. This process provides the finest degree...

Air-Assisted Airless Atomization In the 1970's, various combinations of spraying systems emerged. Air-assisted airless was one that developed to fill a need that resulted from escalated material costs and newly enacted Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. Air-assisted airless, under ideal conditions, combines the best features of air spray along with the best of airless. Air-assisted airless spray guns first partially atomize the fluid with a special fluid nozzle tip similar to a standard airless tip. Second, they complete the atomization with small amounts of compressed air from the face and/or the horns of the air nozzle that they use. The...

Worldwide concern over increased air pollution has necessitated numerous changes, including how we finish our products. HVLP air atomization, Air Assisted Airless and electrostatics are now the only accepted methods of production spraying in certain parts of the country. Although all HVLP spray guns operate with the same objective in mind, how they accomplish this goal may differ. First, air used in the atomization process reaches the HVLP spray gun's nozzle in one of four ways: (1) standard high-pressure compressed air, which has its pressure restricted within the gun body; (2) standard high-pressure compressed air, which is assisted with a...

In the 1960's, attention turned to another process of atomization known today as airless spraying. Airless spraying is a method of spray application that does not directly use compressed air to atomize the coating material. Hydraulic pressure is used to atomize the fluid by pumping it at high pressure (500-4,500 psi) through a small orifice (0.007-0.072 in.) spray nozzle tip located at the front of the airless gun. As the fluid is released at these high pressures, it is separated into small droplets, resulting in a finely atomized spray. The fluid is discharged at such a high velocity that it...