Wagner power painters...?

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Any good? I saw a dude use a cordless to spray tool dip on a car!!! Looked like it was a decent sprayer and cordless to boot. Ill most likely use a corded one but I remember the last one I used 10 years ago was pathetic, could only spray water thin stuff like stain, latex was out of the question.. along with its quart size hopper....But this one I saw was a monster. Will be painting an exterior wall that is texture coated so a roller is not going to cover it. Any opinions?
http://www.thefind.com/hardware/browse-wagner-power-painter-review
 
Go to your local Home Depot or Lowes or tool rental yard and rent a real spray rig...you'll get done faster, better results, and you won't have to store the Wagner and be irritated about having bought it every time you walk by it. ;-)
 
I used to paint apartment interiors regularly, and the consumer power painter was a really good investment for me.
I was able to control the spreay well enouth that I didn't need to mask the baseboard (but i did mask windows).
IMO, there is a design flaw, that could be easily corrected- the shape of the hopper is larger at the bottom, causing the pickup tube to suck air when the hopper becomes about half full (by fluid height and about 2/3 full by volume) and slightly tilted. This will cause a splatter.
This also causes the need to refill the hopper much more frequently.
If the hopper design were inverted, it would be MUCH more efficient.
You could go longer between filling and it would not cause 2/3 of the contents of the hoper to be useless.

I also painted the exterior of my mom's house with that same power painter in 1993- with a single coat (in about 45 minutes)...and it is just now starting to show thin in spots!! (that's almost 20 YEARS)

...and unfortunately the cleanup sucks.

I now have a more commercial brand (whatever Lowes sells), and as nice as it is, with a cylindrical hopper, it is much more difficult to control the thickness of the paint and the fan of the spray.
 
What ever you end up getting clean it thoroughly after using it. A neighbor has a sprayer that I borrowed from him. This guy is one of those people that neglects everything he owns. By the time I got it clean enough to use I could have just used a roller....
 
Trick. I paint and drywall for a living.
When painting exterior stucco or a new fence ,wet it down with a garden
hose, not soaking wet but damp. Work in the shade. The water sucks the
paint in the pores, use this method for the first coat . ( using exterior latex
stain not oil)
Use a brush and roller with a 20 to 30 mm sleeve.
This is a way easier and faster way of painting than using a sprayer,(way
less prep work) . I have been doing this for 25 years.
Hope this helps.
Darryl
 
A roller and a brush for texture coat painting? This stuff is not normal "small curd" cottage cheese bumps, this is 1/8 inch deep crevices and trowel marks.. I may try the rental. I rolled a room in about an hour, I shot the same size room in about 12 minutes with overspray everywhere but the carpet was already up and the ceiling got paint too.
 
I work for sherwin Williams so I get asked this question every day. You need a pretty large machine to push that. I would go with a rental. Also keep in mind over spray on an exterior goes a long way so try not to paint the block. My 2 cents brush and roll
 
airless painters aren't made for automotive painting, they don't have enough pressure to make paint look flat and you'll end up with more orange peel then a tropicana orange juice factory
 
IVE USED A WAGNER. there not terrible it was on sale so i did not pay full price paid bout half the price bout 56bucks. my grandma owns a 19teens Victorian and i am painting it as weather permits . the Wagner power sprayer isn't bad for painting but u have to make sure u clean it throughly with mineral spirits ,Ive shot oil and latex through it and it still works great there easy to take apart but the holding capacity kinda blows. mines the corded i could hook a hose up to a 5gal bucket but those buckets are like over 100bucks and i may not even need that much
 
I have a Paint Crew. You need to keep a couple of the outlet orafices on hand as the cheesy plastic piece wears out from the high pressure. It was fairly cheap, and the sprayer was of fair to good quality. I went from days of roller painting a newly drywalled house to primering entire house before lunch. If you are working with people you pay you get all your money back by noon. You must strain the paint or you will be unclogging it continuosly. Also keep the sprayer filter clean. Clean it completely when you are done.
 
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