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Is THIS the Secret to Perfect Exterior Painting? (Pro Setup Reveal)

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This video provides a detailed overview of specialized equipment and techniques designed to improve the efficiency, ergonomics, and versatility of airless paint spraying. It covers the benefits of using flexible hoses (whips), swivels, magnetic fan pivots, and various extension poles and spray guards to reduce fatigue and enhance application quality on projects like exterior sheds.

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right. Today I'm going to show you um and talk about my setup. I'm going to be spraying um an exterior. This is like a 12x 12 shed. This is what I typically spray with. So I've got a Triek T5 setup. I usually run it around 2000 2200 PSI. I've got I think 50 ft of hose. Sometimes I run 50. Sometimes I run 100 ft of hose. I think there's 50 ft of hose on there. Always run a whip. You should never be running an airless spray hose without a whip attached. The whip makes um the gun more flexible, more maneuverable. You're going to have less fatigue, shoulder fatigue, wrist, arm fatigue when you um have a whip. This is a paint life whip right here. Your typical airless hose is extremely stiff on the end. It has a band on the end that makes it stiff. Uh very difficult to maneuver. There's three whips, five foot whips. I take and add on to my whip. I use an exit flex swivel. So, this is an exit flex z swivel. It makes your whip even more maneuverable. It's going to even cause less fatigue adding a swivel. This is a Tri-C gun. I use multiple guns. The Tri-Cons are nice. One of the big things is is a two-finger gun. I only use a two-finger gun. On here is um a new product. It's a Fan Pivot, something I started recently using. It actually is magnetic and it turns your um tip right here 90° magnetically. And so it can move in either direction just with a um flip of the finger. You can just flip it with this hand or if you got large enough hands, you can just flip it with your fingers. It's called a fan pivot. It's actually pretty dang cool. So that actually just stays on my gun all the time. I always hook an extension to my gun. It's extremely extremely rare they don't have an extension. An extension gives you the ability to reach higher, reach farther right and left, which means less time up the ladder, less bending down cuz I don't have to bend down and spray. So ultimately in the end, less fatigue at the end of the day. So some form of extension. Typically on an exterior I use, if I'm doing a full exterior repaint, I use a 30-in extension. You'll see me using multiple extensions to reach, you know, even higher places. I'll attach them together on here. New product um out now. And depending on when you see this video, um 2025 um Swiss technology, that's what the Zswivel is. Uh Swiss Technology made by Exit [music] Flex. They make absolutely um amazing stuff. Uh they made came out with a twin fit guard now which will house like this is a um exit flex tip which Swiss technology absolutely amazing tips some of my favorite tips now. So exit flex tip 515 always use on an exterior. The twin fit guard will house Graco Rack X tips on the opposite side. Graco rack 5 Titan exit flex Bedford Tritec. It'll house all your tips now in one guard. Absolutely amazing technology. That guard is the best guard you'll ever use. I absolutely love that thing. So, once again, you know, with an extension, lot less ladder work. I could actually use a spray pole and not even get on a ladder at all and spray this. I can hook up two extensions and spray the whole thing with two extensions on it. So, typically, you know, like this, I would um have one one ladder with me and spray with this. I think this is um a 24 24 in extensions. So, here we go. That's my setup. That's what I spray with.

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