GracoMagnum 257025 Project Painter Plus Paint Sprayer, Multicolor

One of the best products I've purchased on Amazon. I was able to spray all my indoor space in super speed time. Easy to use, and install. Excellent design and little to no weight. Spray with ease and satisfaction with large coverage area.Ease of cleaning is never the best for anyone, but we try after a long day of spraying away our life. LolHighly recommended!Only issue is the length of hose, could be longer, but they make it up with the length of power cable to reach far areas.

I bought this last November so I could apply a stain to the new fence on our property that was destroyed in a wind storm. But, the wind and rain kept us from doing so until these past two weeks. In total we have painted 620 linear feet of 6' high fence made up of drill pipe, 2x4s and 1x6" 6' tall. That's a lot of fence to be painting. We still have another 300 feet to go. Our neighbor finally decided to fix the adjoining fence so now we have more to do.This Graco Magnum made the job easy and quick compared to rolling. we put our little generator in the back of our work trailer and pulled it with the lawn tractor to the back fence. Worked beautifully. Priming was extremely easy. Painting was a delight, if it can be. Using the supplied tip of 512, it was a very nice wide pattern and covered a lot of fence. Took a bit to figure out how far back I needed to be to keep from causing runs, drips and errors. At first I was about to eclipse Pete Rose's record of runs, Hits, and errors. LOL. Then I learned that about 12"-15" works best in light winds of 5-8mph. Any higher its best to wait till there's low winds.But clean up, now that was easy. Prime it with some mineral sprits, Then with the small buck full of MS, start spraying into an empty bucket till the nozzle sprays clear. Disassemble the intake screen and wash off in the MS and blow it off. Then take the nozzle apart and clean it. With the nozzle and screen clean I just put them in the slots in the feet of the sprayer for safe keeping.So was it worth the investment? Well, ask me that question after I paint the fences again next year. Im sure Ill be smiling just as much. I won't be conning anyone to do the painting like Tom Sawyer did. But right now I'd say that this spray is worth every single penny. Painting isn't fun but it has been made 1000 times easier with this little gem.

DPRAYS GREAT AND THE AUTO SHUT OFF WORKS AWESOME.

I have had some terrible experiences with airless paint sprayers. I have tried 3 different previous products. One had a tank that was so heavy your arm got tired after a few minutes, another had such a small tank you barely got 5 minutes spraying between fills and all 3 were between mediocre and bad paint results. My heart sank when I saw the plethora of instructions that came with this tool but it turns out they are written to describe every little thing you need to do to set it up, break it down, clean it and lay it away long term. In fact it is easy to set up, use and breakdown. I tried it with different paints and it certainly produced excellent results with deck stain on a fence, exterior cement paint on a concrete wall and latex emulsion on indoor wood paneling.Here are some great features.1. You don't need to fill up anything or empty anything, it uses paint straight out of the 5 gal or 1 gallon can/drum.2. It has a long delivery hose so you don't have to move the tool and paint container very often.3. The nozzle can be set horizontal or vertical so you can choose to paint up and down or side to side whatever works best for the situation.4. One of THE best features is the nozzle barrel arrangement. The spray nozzle is on a vertical circular barrel with an arrow handle on top. If you ever have a blockage you simply turn the arrow to the reverse direction, point somewhere that doesn't matter and pull the trigger once and the paint is forced the wrong way through the nozzle and clears the blockage. This makes for very fast clearance and very few stoppages. I should add the pump already has a strainer on the inlet hose and the gun has a micro-filter pre-nozzle but it is still a fantastic feature that puts this tool ahead of the competition.5. Priming is easy and the pump only operates when output is demanded which reduces the noise and pump wear and tear.6. The whole thing comes apart very easily for cleaning.7. It is pretty economic with paint. It is the only tool I have used which gives good coverage and achieves the square footage on the paint labels with very little overspray and dust.8. It is fast. With a 10-12" fan spray you can paint very large areas fast and being airless it is not affected greatly by slight wind outside.The only reason I took off one star was the volume of paint it takes for set up and tear down. With 20ft of hose a big gun and all the suction tube and pump it probably wastes around half a pint every use. That is no big deal when you have both sides of 1,600 feet of 6ft high fencing to paint, but anything smaller than a large room you would need to take that into account. You can pour the paint from the pipes back into the can but there is a lot of cleanup involved. That said I found this tool fantastic, quick, easy to use and does a good job. I am very happy with it and would recommend it to others for both indoor and outdoor medium to large painting projects.