Hey SS
…yep…and…you have to stick your RIGHT pinky finger out too.
Seriously…couple things…
1) These guns come as a set…kinda…
…here’s what I mean…INSIDE them…
There is the Needle…a certain diameter…and a certain point at the end.
Then…there is the Fluid Nozzle…which is inside the Fluid CAP.
…again…(3) parts to the “assembly”…
Now…back to the Needle…which slams into the “certain sized” orifice, inside the Fluid Nozzle…( forget the cap right now…)
1) If it is a matched set…the taper of the Needle’s tip will fit perfectly into the Orifice of the Fluid Nozzle.
…so I’m asking…was it a new set?…hoping this would disallow any wrong parts with wrong parts. They’re probably fine…because it doesn’t happen always.
Next…you’ve checked properly…you checked to see if there was a small dog hair on the tip…prohibiting it from slamming into the Orifice…tight enough and at the right “matching” taper…to stop paint flow.
And…you found nothing…crap…I wish you would have!
Next…these are little things I’d try…because those two items are the only possible flaws…which is what I like about my Conventional = simple.
…so again…little things…
1) My Right Side Air Pressure Gage is around 40 lbs. That amount of air at that pressure serves 2 purposes…
A) Atomize the paint at the Fluid Nozzle…
B) Also…to lift and set the Needle.
If…and again…if…your pressure is at 30 lbs…bump it to 35 Lbs. Maybe that will help.
Next…I remember when I had a tip that leaked…I freaked…BUT…it was two drops on a 40 car parking lot.
Don’t tell anyone what I’m about to say…after I got my feet wet…two drops didn’t bother me at all. The lot was done and pretty…don’t look back.
So…my question is this…how much of a leak? Is it a “trail”…from the top of one line to the bottom of the next? Or…two small droplets?
Last…when I do have a small piece of something…trying to come through the line…and either slowing paint or even clogging it…lift the QAW = “Quick as A Wink” = THE TRIGGER…! up and down…FIVE times as fast as you can…ONOFFONOFFONOFFONOFF…! That always cleared my debris…maybe it’ll help seat the tip or push through the crap that we may have missed…during cleaning.
Last…help me here…I’ve re-read the posts…are you still experimenting with water?…or have you moved to paint?
Next…you mentioned a Diaphragm on a Binks. Unless I’m out dated…the Diaphragm is on the Kelly and the Binks has none. OK…it has one that looks like a mushroom at the top…the Kelly has one that looks like a vertical Frisbee.
AND…the “Low Pressure Kelly Diaphragm” will need the (3) way valve moved up and down…repeatedly. Then stripe with Oil Based Paint….while the Binks 21…will only have to have the (3) valve UP and then just leave it alone. Go stripe your brains out…with water based paint.
These two bits of info will not have anything to do with trouble shooting the dripping.
But…let me know.
Dan
