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Recently I was given a new Titan HEAspray tip to try out.
The size I was given was a 213.
I thought I would try it out by sprained it first with the very thin viscosity primer called Bins synthetic shellac on kitchen cabinet doors.
I am using a TRI-TECH T4 sprayer for this application.
It took me up to 1650 PSI for this tip to Atomize properly.
After getting the tip to properly spray I measured the width of the spray pattern to be approximately 7 1/2 inches.
Quite unusual for a 213 tip. I usually expect This size tip to give me somewhere between 4 to 5 inches width on my spray pattern.
The tip seem to atomize the material on a scale from 1 to 10 about 7.
Really nothing to write home about and was somewhat discouraged because according to all of the reviews and literature I have read about these tips they were to use a much lower pressure therefore not having as much over spray or wasted material.
Yet with a spray pattern of approximately just over 7 inches it was quite a bit of wasted material on kitchen cabinet doors being sprayed.
What I have read through extensive studies is that the Titan tips have a carbide hardness somewhere between 60-65,
Graco tips are somewhere between 70-75
And tri-tech tips are somewhere between 90 to 95.
A substantial difference in hardness of tips which means that you have a prolonged life the harder the carbide and a smoother spray pattern.
That being said I decided for these kitchen cabinets to pull out one of my older TRI-TECH 212 fine finish tips.
The tip took about 1550 to atomize and gave me a spray pattern width of about 5 inches.
On these kitchen cabinet doors I was spraying Benjamin Moore Advance semi-gloss in color number hc168.
Even with a used tip I achieved a beautiful result and here is the picture after spraying the second coat today. I continue to use what I consider the best of the big three when it comes to equipment and spray tips. The results are speaking for themselves and I always encourage those individuals who ask me to use tri-tech instead of the other two for a superior spray result.
The size I was given was a 213.
I thought I would try it out by sprained it first with the very thin viscosity primer called Bins synthetic shellac on kitchen cabinet doors.
I am using a TRI-TECH T4 sprayer for this application.
It took me up to 1650 PSI for this tip to Atomize properly.
After getting the tip to properly spray I measured the width of the spray pattern to be approximately 7 1/2 inches.
Quite unusual for a 213 tip. I usually expect This size tip to give me somewhere between 4 to 5 inches width on my spray pattern.
The tip seem to atomize the material on a scale from 1 to 10 about 7.
Really nothing to write home about and was somewhat discouraged because according to all of the reviews and literature I have read about these tips they were to use a much lower pressure therefore not having as much over spray or wasted material.
Yet with a spray pattern of approximately just over 7 inches it was quite a bit of wasted material on kitchen cabinet doors being sprayed.
What I have read through extensive studies is that the Titan tips have a carbide hardness somewhere between 60-65,
Graco tips are somewhere between 70-75
And tri-tech tips are somewhere between 90 to 95.
A substantial difference in hardness of tips which means that you have a prolonged life the harder the carbide and a smoother spray pattern.
That being said I decided for these kitchen cabinets to pull out one of my older TRI-TECH 212 fine finish tips.
The tip took about 1550 to atomize and gave me a spray pattern width of about 5 inches.
On these kitchen cabinet doors I was spraying Benjamin Moore Advance semi-gloss in color number hc168.
Even with a used tip I achieved a beautiful result and here is the picture after spraying the second coat today. I continue to use what I consider the best of the big three when it comes to equipment and spray tips. The results are speaking for themselves and I always encourage those individuals who ask me to use tri-tech instead of the other two for a superior spray result.
