Application Tips

Cleaning and Maintenance of Paint Spray Guns

Methods of professional spray gun cleaning

Waterborne PaintsIt goes without saying that you can apply any waterborne paint with a SATA paint spray gun. There is only one limitation in this respect: Please do not use the same spray guns for the application of solvent-based as well as waterborne paints. We recommend working with two completely separate sets of spray guns, in line with the two separate paint systems.The CCS (Color Code System) which comes with each high-performance spray gun offers a clever solution to assist you in clearly marking your different spray guns. X»

More information on paint spray gun cleaning with Waterborne PaintsIt goes without saying that you can apply any waterborne paint with a SATA paint spray gun. There is only one limitation in this respect: Please do not use the same spray guns for the application of solvent-based as well as waterborne paints. We recommend working with two completely separate sets of spray guns, in line with the two separate paint systems.The CCS (Color Code System) which comes with each high-performance spray gun offers a clever solution to assist you in clearly marking your different spray guns. X» being used

Solvent-based Paints

More information on paint spray gun cleaning with solvent-based paints being used

Manual cleaning of paint spray guns

Disassembly of nozzle set

First remove paint needle.
Followed by the cap.
And finally, unscrew fluid tip with the ring spanner integrated in the universal wrench.

Cleaning and drying

When cleaning the spray gun manually, please ensure not to use brushes made of metal wires which could possibly damage the spray gun. Furthermore, please make sure that no cleaning fluid ends up in the air passages of the spray gun body - we recommend leaving the spray gun connected to the air line with the air flow rate reduced to the minimum!

Cleaning of the nozzle set

When cleaning the nozzle components, please make sure that metal parts of brushes do not damage the nozzle set. Ideally, please use specially designed SATA cleaning brushes and SATA nozzle cleaning needles to ensure optimum cleaning and maintenance of the nozzle set.

Intermediate cleaning with SATA clean RCS

More information on intermediate cleaning with SATA clean RCS

Cleaning with SATA multi clean 2

More information on cleaning in the closed-circuit gun washer SATA multi clean 2

Assembly and Maintenance

When installing the nozzle set, please observe that the fluid tip has been hand-tightened with the enclosed ring spanner of the universal tool to ensure safe seal seat.

Each SATA paint spray gun and each replacement nozzle set is hand-adjusted and spray-tested. With a vertical spray fan, the air cap has to be positioned in a way that the laser-etched air cap marking can be read from the front. The marking on the outside of the air cap horn placed in the uppermost position instead indicates the correct orientation when spraying with a horizontal spray fan.

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