Hello Can I use the wagner airless procoat 9145 and 9155 to apply washprimer and primer pu in my car? thanks
I don't know if it is an old wives tale or not, but I was always told those airless sprayers use electricity and can cause an explosion using such volitale paints as auto paints. They were best left to house paints that don't have the flash points like auto paints do. I would call Wagner and ask this question - they have an 800 number - 1-800-328-8251
Dohhh, never even though about that. I used one a couple years ago to spray an alcohol based primer-sealer in my pool room after the pump caught fire and smoked everything up. Stuff was so volatile I had to take a fresh air break every few minutes, I may have been very lucky in the overall scheme of things...
Yea, I don't know if an urban legend or not. But if cell phone use at a gas pump can cause an explosion (documented by surveillance cameras) who knows.
I don't know about snopes - but I've seen TV news stories that said it can happen. Watch this ......probably static discharge, but .................. http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...ion&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-900-17
it is total bs. a modern cell phone will not excite fuel vapors without being damaged enough that the owner would be electrocuted by it. try to ignite gas inside a microwave oven. same thing but faaar less power.
"In your car"? Yeah.. you could.. though I'm not sure what.. "primer pu".. is? You'll also need to use one hell of a tiny tip for it too.. or it will make a quick mess of things if you're not very proficient at painting in tight qaurters like that. Proper overlaps will be important too. As far as an airless sprayer(or even the little Wagner power sprayers) causing flash fires?.. no way in hell that could happen unless you're spraying pure alcohol(which even alcohol based paints(or those thinned with it) have very little in relation to total volume). And even then it would need to be in an enclosed box with a spark plug to pop it off. A lighter would likely just go out.. not that I'd want to test it myself. lol I've been painting for more than 30 years now.. and have only heard of a few flashes occurring even when using industrial grade products that are deemed highly flammable(in comparison to watered down consumer grade products). Has far more to do with the airflow/buildup(ppm) and intensity/heat of the ignition source than anything. This is why running internal combustion motors nearby is far more dangerous than just turning on a light switch because the exhaust manifold collects material until it gets hot enough to flare and set it all off. One of the occassions also had to do with nearby halide lighting(which is VERY HOT) becoming oversprayed/coated during dry-fall painting which caused the ignition. From what I was told by a co-worker who once worked with the man.. the flash only burnt him.. but the 3 story fall is what actually killed him. Just keep the machine away from the work area(which you'll want to do to keep it clean anyways).. and add sufficient airflow to improve the work areas visibility and you'll be just fine.
Back in '72 I primered and painted my '63 Nova with with an airless gun. Was laquer paint and after the required color sanding and buffing it didn't look too bad considering two of us did it in a dirt floor garage on a Saturday afternoon.
