Wagner paint sprayers have existed in one form or another for several decades, and today, the company produces a range that is useful to anyone who wants to carry out small to medium painting jobs around the home, farm, office, or store. With a distinctive yellow and black color scheme that has a "construction site" look, these sprayers are quite affordable and offer light to moderate functionality for home and professional painters.
Two models of Wagner sprayers in particular are made for medium sized jobs, while being a bit cheaper than competing models of about the same size. These are the Paint Crew and the Paint Crew Plus. These are hopper-style paint sprayers in which a piston pump is located in a main case along with a large paint reservoir (holding 2 gallons in the Paint Crew and 2.5 in the Plus), in order to drive paint along a 25 foot long hose attached to a sturdy aluminum paint gun.
The 25 foot hose enables you to use these Wagner devices while painting the upper story of a two story building, or to move a considerable way along a fence, painting it, before you need to move the hopper. The hopper's controls allow you to vary the spray from a relatively gentle 1,000 psi for light duty work, such as spraying furniture in a spray booth, to a stiff 2,800 psi that applies a satiny smooth, extremely regular coat of paint to the exterior of a house, barn, or deck.
As might be expected from a low cost sprayer, made by Chinese factories, you should take a few precautions to make sure the sprayers continue to work smoothly. Straining paint used in them is a must, since any clumps will break a plastic flow valve or clog up the spray gun. Similarly, only thin or medium liquids can be used, and thick, viscous ones such as primer should be avoided.
Wagner offers plenty more options, however, including their highly flexible lightweight line of sprayers. These sprayers, centered on the Power Painter Plus and Power Painter Max, are pistol grip devices with a high, humped "back" that contains an air intake - in effect, the device serves at its own compressor, too.
Paint can be supplied either from a 1.5 quart twist lock paint cup, or through a suction hose. Since the suction provided by the Power Painter's pneumatic system is not very high (and paint only flows at a rate of.12 gallons per minute, or 7.2 GPH), the hose is only 5 feet long, and you will need to stay quite close to the paint can if you elect to use the hose. However, there is a separate paint backpack that can be bought from Wagner to give you a larger volume of material in a highly portable form, and this is recommended for anyone who has a large painting task ahead of them.
Spraying the eaves of a house, the inside of a niche or recess, or other difficult spots is made much easier than usual by the EZ Tilt system built into certain models of Power Painter. Most pneumatic sprayers stop paint output totally when they're pointed straight up or down, or splutter out a messy mix of paint and air that can easily ruin a paint job. EZ Tilt devices work at all angles and in all directions, however, and this is a major advantage of Wagner paint sprayers.
The Wagner line of paint sprayers includes various sizes of sprayer and is generally at the more affordable end of the scale. Though there are some quality issues with certain models, there are many satisfied users as well, and there is no doubt that the EZ Tilt feature is a vast help to spraying ceilings, floors, and other difficult areas - operational flexibility that serves as a benchmark that other companies should try to equal in their own ways.
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