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Wagner Wide Shot Power Painter | 
 enlarge | Brand: Wagner
Category: Home Improvement
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 88516
Media: Misc.
MPN: 0518001D
UPC: 024964720064
EAN: 0024964720064
ASIN: B000KKOKT2
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Product Description
The 5.4 GPH Wide Shot Power Painter features the wide shot tip to spray many latex paints un-thinned in a pattern up to 12 inches wide for large surfaces.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 A TOTAL WASTE December 8, 2008
A reader (New Orleans)
Yes, we read the instructions. Yes we did all the cleaning. We got 6, repeat, 6 uses out of this before it just stopped permanently. We paid $100 for this set so, it cost us $16 per use. We could have rented a pro sprayer and been done in far less time, not mention the aggravation. A friend of mine had a Wagner Power painter 10 years ago (one of the first models) and she had the same experience. Wagner apparently learned nothing since then, and we will never buy another Wagner product!
Wagner Power Shot Paint Sprayer September 11, 2008
BBmyself (Atlanta, GA USA)
I've never been motivated to buy a Wagner painting product. They have great marketing, and do a good job of training sales people at home centers and hardware stores to swear by their products. The problem is that they are selling professional performance from mass-produced, consumer appliances. br / br /In my case, I'm a DIY'er and just finished drywalling, mudding, and taping my basement. My wife bought the sprayer, thinking it would greatly reduce my time on task, priming every square foot of drywall installed -- walls and ceilings. br / br /I took the sprayer out of the box, connected and lubricated as specified, put the pickup hose in the 5 gal. bucket as instructed, put on my goggles and NIOSH-approved mask, and started/attempted to "paint". br / br /My experience: the device is noisy and vibrates more than my pneumatic jitterbug sander; even with the flow adjustment wide-open the coverage is insufficient; every time I released the trigger an air pocket developed that forced it to spit globs of paint when spraying resumed; and the bucket clip did not hold so the pickup hose would slip off the bucket and drag/drain paint across the floor. br / br /Needless to say, by the time I cleaned-up the mess and sprayer parts, I had lost any time that may have been saved vs using a good old, reliable roller, pan, and extension handle. My advise: stay away from this until they get it right...unless, you're just bored and are looking for new sources of frustration in your life.
 decent sprayer September 2, 2008
David Smith (Central Wisconsin)
I found that this sprayer works good if you read and follow the directions in the owner's manual. Also, I have few tips of my own. I recently sprayed my entire house with a wide shot sprayer. After you assemble the sprayer put a few drops of oil in the intake. Make sure the tip holder is screwed in tight and check it while you spray. If you use the hose intake I found that it easier to drill 1/2" holes in the lid and shove the hoses into the bucket. That way you won't spill all the paint if the bucket tips over. If you use the cup, fill it often and make sure it never goes below half full. That way you reduce the chance of sucking air into the intake which tends to cause the gun to "spatter". If you do get spatters, just smooth them out with brush, and respray lightly over. Be aware that this unit can push out a lot of paint so you need to fill your pail or cup often. For cleanup, disassemble and rinse everything with water and place the parts in mineral spirits. I use mineral spirits for cleanup on all my spray equipment. It will dissolve most paint materials and it does have lubricating qualitiies. For spraying heavy latex or acrylic paints, there really isn't anything like the wide shot.
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY July 21, 2008
A. Gottlieb (Seattle, WA)
The only thing good about this product is you get a box you can use to mail something else in to a friend. br / br /I've painted for 25 years always roller and brush, amateur and professionally. Bought one of these to try to do a porch with, large job. br / br /1) The "backpack" is absurd and should be rated by OSHA with ergonomic instructions. It's heavy, swings around, will exhaust you and your muscles, and the strap didn't hold; it broke, the tank fell, paint spilled. br / br /2) The unit is heavy and will exhaust you, especially since you'll spend 50% of your time holding up a heavy unit waiting for paint to come out. br / br /3) The suction tubes and the power cord (and your extension cord) will be in your way forever and will exhaust you as you try manage both of those plus the backpack that will be swinging and exhausting you as well. br / br /3.5) Plus, if you DON'T use the backpack, you have no mobility whatsoever. Unless you want to spend your day filling the thimble of a plastic paint holder over and over and over. br / br /4) You'll be so worried about the thing clogging and paint drying, that you'll be rushing. br / br /5) THe paint will clog and the thing will not flow properly (and I thinned my material properly). There is not enough instruction on thinning. br / br /6) THe prep you need to do, combined with time it takes to put on the backpack, overwhelms any benefit by far. br / br /7) You need to wear a proper respirator, goggles etc. and those alone take all the meditative fun out of the painting job. You will be exhausted, sweating in your paint-spackled goggles, your face itching in your respirator. You will get hot and gross. Your shoulders will hurt. You will start cursing. br / br /8) This tool might work for a really small job, like a chair or a bookcase, but I could paint it by hand beautifully in the same time it takes to prep and clean up this b===h. br / br /9) You also need to wear ear protectors. It's really loud. So add ear protectors to the above list of things taking the fun out of the job. br / br /10) Once the machine clogs, you're out of business. Especially considering that once you're in the middle of a job, you sure won't want to go into clean up mode and trouble-shoot your new "tool". A successful tool solves a problem, and this one sure isn't that. br / br /I finished my job with a brush and roller and the coating was better, the job was easier and I got it done. br / br /The best part of the day was throwing this unit in the trash. The most fun I've ever hard throwing something out for this much money. Stick with the roller folks. Keep your money. Spend it on paint and a drop cloth.
Avoid this device like the plague! May 21, 2008
Harry E. Davis (Texas)
Didn't work in the first use. Paint cup fell off 3 times causing me to lose a quart of expensive paint and made a horrible mess. Cup wouldn't stay on no matter how well I tightened it. Burped and spit out globs of paint periodically during the first use, especially when paint level got down to about a third of the cup. This is probably due to the filter on the uptake being too tall, so that air is drawn in. That's a serious design flaw. Unit is uncomfortable to hold (intense buzzy vibration) and noisy enough to wake the dead. Cheap plastic case hinge broke when I opened it the first time. I found nothing to like about this sprayer.
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