The water flowing out of your gas-powered pressure washer is a lot like the traffic flowing through your community.
You can cruise along a two-lane country road or speed down a five-lane expressway.
The similarities literally end at the tip of your pressure washer.
If road construction reduces the expressway into two lanes, your blood pressure may rise, but traffic slows to a crawl.
The water flowing out of your pressure washer, however, doesn’t slow down. In fact, it’ll ram into water molecules ahead, forcing them through the traffic jam at even greater speeds -- or pressure.
Your spray tips basically control the water flow and pressure by increasing or decreasing the size of the barricades at the end of your spray wand.
The widest tip lets all the traffic through. The narrowest tip reduces traffic into a single lane. As a result, the pressure increases tremendously, yet the spray pattern is very narrow.
If you’re like most power washer owners, you’ll eventually lose a spray tip… or two… or three. Or, if you’re lucky enough to keep them organized, water pressure eventually widens the openings, reducing the spray tip’s effectiveness.
Selecting the right replacement spray tips can be complicated, but we made it very easy. Simply follow the chart published on every spray tip page. Match your pressure washer’s water flow (GPM) and water pressure (PSI).
The chart will tell you which orifice size you need. Just like lanes on an expressway, the larger the orifice, the more water can flow.
Most consumer-grade pressure washers need a simple three-lane highway (3.0 orifice). Professional-grade pressure washers could require up to a 5-lane expressway (5.0 orifice).
The water flowing out of your gas-powered pressure washer is a lot like the traffic flowing through your community.
You can cruise along a two-lane country road or speed down a five-lane expressway.
The similarities literally end at the tip of your pressure washer.
If road construction reduces the expressway into two lanes, your blood pressure may rise, but traffic slows to a crawl.
The water flowing out of your pressure washer, however, doesn’t slow down. In fact, it’ll ram into water molecules ahead, forcing them through the traf...
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