Capital Equipment News December 2018

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP – LINE STRIPING

Top 6 accessories in line striping

Graco’s LineLazers and ThermoLazers have set the standard for the striping industry, offering the best in innovation, technology and quality for contractors worldwide. To allow contractors to complete jobs faster, more efficiently and with higher accuracy, Graco also offers a full range of accessories. These are the top 6 accessories in line striping.

With an additional gun you turn your single gun line striper into a double-line striper.

A LineDriver is great for large jobs, big parking lots and road striping

1. Spray tips The spray tips may only be a small part of your line striper, but they are of vital importance. The right spray tip increases performance, improves the quality of work and keeps your costs under control. You can change your line width with a different tip size or keep your lines crisp and sharp with a new spray tip. If your line is getting narrow or thin on the edges, it is time for a new tip. 2. Spray boom With a spray boom you apply perfect parallel lines and more accurate curves. It also enables you to easily move from a centreline to an edge-line and to easily spray wide lines with only one spray gun. A spray boom with two heads allows you to spray lines that are 50-60 cm wide. Contractors who often have to spray pedestrian crossings will complete the job in less time using a spray boom. 3. Additional guns Whether it’s for stencils, wide line painting or custom logos, sometimes you will need additional guns. Graco allows you to easily add stencil guns and auto/ semi-auto guns onto your line striper. With Auto Mode and Semi-Auto Mode, you control any skip line requirement on

jobsites. A simple push on the button gives you perfect control for accurate stripes every time and applying skip lines becomes very easy. 4. Laser pointer If you want your lines to be straighter and crispier in less time, a laser pointer is the perfect accessory for your line striper. It features multiple points of adjustment, enabling your laser placement to be as accurate as you want it to be. One laser indicates where the paint hits the surface; while the other laser – a couple of inches ahead – allows you to perfectly follow your guideline. 5. LineDriver Is your walking speed impeding your execution speed? Is walking miles while striping day after day taking its toll? Are you tired of having to push and pull your

LineLazer? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, the LineDriver may be just what you need. It will transform your LineLazer into an easy-to-move unit, which can double your productivity and accuracy while reducing operator fatigue and increasing comfort. highways use special kinds of paints to avoid scattering the light, and to turn it around and send it back in the direction of the car headlights. To give road stripes their reflective quality, glass beads are distributed on top of the wet paint or the hot thermoplastic. Graco offers both pressurized and gravity fed automatic bead dispensers for its LineLazer striping systems. They dispense the beads automatically, you just have to adjust the dispensing heads to stripe 2”, 4” and 6”. b 6. Bead dispensing systems Retroreflective road markings on

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