What do you clean your gun with after use?

[BDelling]

I am going to be spraying both acrylic enamel and urethane (primer). What do I clean my gun with after each use?

I'm a woodworker and I always use the appropriate thinner (lacquer thinner for lacquer, mineral spirits for polyurethane, etc). I assume I don’t use reducer?

Thanks!

 

[copasspupil]

Buy a 5 gallon bucket from the auto paint supply shop and pick up a pump for it. It is easier than the 1 gallon containers, less spilling and easier to use with the pump. Lacquer...btw

 

[pappy]

My ACE enamel cleans up nicely with lacquer thinner.

 

[copasspupil]

You might want to get a lubricating pen for the gun as well. Pick it up at the body shop.

 

[fliphkd778]

I would just use whatever your using to reduce your paint. At least that's what PPG recommends for most of their paints.

 

[baxter650]

I use "gun wash" comes in a 20 ltr pail, as far as i can tell it's a cheaper laquer thinner.

 

[cruiser88]

MEK or 100.....100 is mek with an oil base really

 

[nate-gk]

mek is the best for all sorts of stuff

i leave the tips off all my guns and store them in a glass jar of mek they come out perfectly clean.

 

[terranceeriley]

I'm a spraypainter and at work we have the big ah i think it's 60 litre drum of PPG gunwash to clean my gun.
It's just recycled thinners.
And dont dunk the whole gun in gunwash. it destroys the air seals and goes all screwy.