Graco 17D889 TrueCoat 360 VSP Handheld Paint Sprayer

This tool is very simple and easy to use. I let my seven year old son use it while I was painting some trim and he did fine . I found that it sprays evenly from any angle shooting up or down as long as you keep your distance and the tool perpendicular to the work piece, I just use warm water to clean it and it cleaned up just fine. Nothing compared to cleaning a bunch of brushes and paint pans. It uses a little bit more paint than I expected but it’s not wasting anything. The finished looks so much better than brushed or rolled, and it gets into areas that you can’t reach very easily with a brush. I sprayed thick exterior paint through this tool with no problem I’m going to try stain this weekend. I have a big deck that is stained and I want to read stain it. This tool will make it a breeze. You definitely need to cover anything behind your work piece. You don’t want to get overspray because it definitely overspray’s. There are a few things that cannot do like painting around spindles on a railing but it can get so much else done so much faster you’ll have time to hand paint those small details.

The VSP model of the 360 is excellent. (1) It uses a 42 oz cup rather than 32 oz. You'll appreciate refilling much less often with a larger capacity. The weight difference is 8 oz of whatever medium you're using which is minor. (2) The variable speed has many more options than the 2 speed models which helps me greatly. You get a "feel" for what speed to use very quickly. (3) You can paint at any angle, even upside down. I'm applying preservative on the joists under a 50' x 12' deck, and I'm using paint sprayer is upside down most of the time. (4) You don't have to thin your paint or preservative. That usually ruins a lot of products if they are thinned. (5) Very easy learning curve. This is my first time using a paint sprayer. Even after it arrived, I worried that I couldn't use it, but I found that it is very user friendly. I researched all of the main brands and a few "Amazon Choices" along with watching many Youtube videos that compare various sprayers. This is my choice, and I'm very, very happy. It's the first time I've ever used a spray gun, and it was easy. I recommend having a brush on hand to brush out any uneven places or drips. Just takes a few seconds to make corrections with a brush. A very conservative estimate is that I spent 25% of the time that it used to take me with a brush. Wish I had bought one years ago.

Bought this to paint a new 54-ft x 6 ft high solid wood fence. Only took a few minutes to get up to speed with it. Took around 2 gallons of Kilz 2 primer, around 8 reloads of the paint cup, and about 2 hours. Would have gone faster but the fence surface is not an entirely flat surface, with wood batten strips every 6 inches, giving lots of angles to cover. The Kilz-2 paint looked pretty thick so I added probably 3 - 4 oz of water per gallon. This unit has a 1 to 10 speed setting, and I found 4 to be a good choice. After the initial minute or so I got the pump speed and hand movement speed worked out and had no noticeable runs. Due to the ridged fence surface I had to go at it from both directions. I was able to use the same disposable paint cup for the entire process. There is a handy little device packed with the pump I almost overlooked. It's a little slide-on extension of the handle that makes the handle the same length as the paint cup, allowing you to set it down on a level surface. Huge help when refilling, juggling paint cans, or just taking a short break. If there was one area that I had issues with it would be the clean-up. Now, before I even loaded it with paint, I foresaw this could be an issue, so I wiped the entire unit down with a paper towel and a bit of Pledge furniture wax. Wasn't certain how much it would help, but at least it smelled nice. In the end this seemed to help, but the paint found many more tiny crevasses than the wax did. After I was done spraying, I commenced the well-detailed cleaning process, and if there is ONE thing I can stress, it is, have LOTS of clean water, LOTS of empty buckets, and a clean-up area you don't particularly care about. Preferably set up beforehand, outside, on a tarp, with a table, sawhorses and a piece of plywood, . . . some sort of raised work area. You could fumble around on the ground if you wish, but I'm pushing 70, so working at a more comfortable height was a blessing. I had a large canvas tarp on the concrete, with a small folding table, covered with cardboard. Disposable gloves also help. Still managed to make a mess. Also, the Amazon sales info showed a small bottle of Graco Pump Armor liquid to purge and protect the pump for storage. This is incorrect. There was none in the box. When you fill out the registration, the card says if you do it on-line, they will SEND you a small bottle. In 4 to 8 WEEKS! Not much help. BUY some Graco Pump Armor ALONG with the sprayer. When refilling, you need to remove the paint cup and invert the main body of the sprayer, setting it on a work surface, upside down. This is a bit unstable, and drippy at best. If the sprayer topples over, and / or, when reconnecting the now refilled paint cup . . . . Again, have a paint-proof work surface setup beforehand. With tons of paper towels and some damp rags. There is the listed cleaning process with lots of water, and a final rinse with the pump armor, but that says little about cleaning the REST of the device. Being brand-new, I wanted to make it look that way again, so after the major cleaning was done, I took it inside to our laundry room sink and went after the exterior runs with an old toothbrush, a scotch-brite pad, a plastic spoon, and some dish soap. You cannot immerse the unit, but I was very tempted. After some intense scrubbing it looks pretty decent, but after all that, I ramped up the wax job and went at it with some Johnson's Paste Wax. Still have the final paint to run through some day soon when the wind cooperates. Will see if that does any better. One disappointment I discovered after the fact is that it isn't recommended for fine finishes. Graco openly discusses this on-line where users post reviews. They admit freely that another sprayer would work better for this. When I bought it, it was with the idea that I would use it when we repaint our kitchen cabinets, but among the few comments on this, unhappy users said it looked like their young child went at their cabinets with a roller instead. Some of this could be related to paint choices, preparation, thinning, technique, etc, but when Graco themselves discourage it, maybe I better rethink it too. A few last thoughts on spray tips. The two spray tips that come with it vary only in fan width. 4 inch and 12 inch. They stress that NO OTHER TIPS WILL WORK ON IT. PERIOD. And the tip you don't use at the moment has a convenient storage location - a hole drilled into the lower part of the handle. Not thinking other of it, I found my unused tip fell off somewhere and as yet remains lost somewhere in my side yard. Park your spare tip in a safe place. In all, a decent sprayer for house and yard stuff, but on smaller jobs the clean-up could make it impractical, and the frequent refills of the 42 oz paint cup could get tiresome on a really large job.

Great machine for small to medium size jobs like mouldings or doors. PROS: Fast painting. Nice finish. Very easy clean up. My Titan HPHV sprayer takes an hour to clean. This machine 15 min max and you’re done. Adjustable pressure setting for different viscosity paints. Finished painting mouldings in 10 minutes and covered so well a second coat was not needed. By had would have taken 2 hours between dry time and second coat. CONS: Significant over spray. So wear a mask and plastic off anything you don’t want to get paint on. Get it. You won’t regret it. This is coming from someone who hates to paint.

Es muy buena la máquina, fácil de maniobrar, fácil de limpiar; pero ten cuidado con el polvo que levanta…. Es un mundo….

I primed and painted a secondary kitchen with this sprayer. Prep is key, and this gun performed as advertised on YouTube vids. Practiced on some old drywall to get the technique down before attempting the doors and gables. Super easy to apply, but the cleanup took much longer than the actual painting time. Just follow the manual for step-by-step instructions on how to set it up for the first time, tips and tricks, and the eventual cleaning and storage guidance.

Me encantó pinté un cuarto de 3metros X 5 metros con textura muuuuy rugosa y techo del mismo más o menos en 1 hora y media por los tiempos de espera, lo único que no me gusto es que como pinte el techo quedó muy manchada 😕 y la limpieza fue tardada y nunca pensé que necesitaba un embudo para rellenar sin abrir el bote.

Es muy buena pero con el tiempo el bote tiende a tener filtración de aire aún que le pongas nuevos repuestos, y es un batallar, tuve que comprar otro bote y funcionó mejor, la verdad por el precio creo que está mejor la graco magnum que absorbe directo de la Tina y está hay que estár rellenando constante mente y quita tiempo, aunque filtres la pintura tiende a atascarse y debes estar girando la perilla para desatascar, la verdad es un batallar con eso último, si vas a comprar yo recomendaría por lo que veo mejor la graco magnum difiere muy poco del precio