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PLAYING THE PERFECT TUNE
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NLIKE TRADITIONAL SOLUTIONS,
SATA’s radical new X-Nozzle
System lets you tune your SA- TAjet X 5500 to suit your paint brand, application conditions
and personal preferences.
Where you apply paint, in a geograph-
ical sense, is just as important as the type of paint being applied. For exam- ple, at the same time of year, you could be spraying the very same product in a cold, dry Melbourne winter or in the heat and high humidity of North Queensland. What the X-Nozzle System offers is the ability to easily tune the SA- TAjet X 5500 to suit these or virtually any other application conditions, says Uwe Kuebler. As SATA Export Manager for this region, Uwe regularly visits Aus- tralia and New Zealand, including for the recent Collision Repair Expo.
“In the past, SATA has developed noz- zle sets more or less according to the needs of paint manufacturers, to suit each paint system. As a result, SATA guns in RP and HVLP technologies featured noz- zle sets mainly producing an oval spray pattern which basically allowed for a fast-
er application process. However, like other conventional nozzle technologies, as you stepped up or down in size, the fan would be larger, smaller, wider or narrower. Not only this, the atomisation, as well as the film thickness, varied in a non-uniformed way and the material flow changed but not in linear steps. It’s something techni- cians have always had to compensate for but most have never really stopped to think about it.”
“Because of all this, SATA decided to create a system that fitted everybody’s need – the X-Nozzle System. Our devel- opment engineers identified two basic spray patterns – the I-Shape and the O- Shape. The shapes already existed but they were not constant across the nozzle range – with the X-Nozzle System, they are. For each nozzle size, you can now choose between the O-Nozzle, basically for a higher, more traditional SATA ap- plication speed, or the I-Nozzle, for a slightly slower, more controlled applica- tion. Whichever spray pattern you choose, it’s important to understand that if you change between nozzle sizes, the fan size and shape remains the same –
the painter doesn’t need to adjust. “With the X-Nozzle System on the SA- TAjet X 5500, you have a range to suit the requirements of the different paint manu- facturers but now you can also choose your nozzle setup based on the climatic conditions you operate in. For example, say application is too dry so you need a bigger nozzle size. With the X-Nozzle Sys- tem you get exactly what you need and nothing that you don’t. The fan shape and size will be exactly the same, the only dif- ference is that you get more paint material flow in linear steps. With the consistency of the X-Nozzles System, painters get amazing flexibility without the surprises
when changing the nozzle setup.”
So, which of these nozzles will be right for your applications? To put you on the right track, SATA has come up with the SATA Nozzle Finder app. Using information, such as what spray gun you currently use, the type of paint system and even climatic condition (tempera- ture, humidity, etc), the SATA Nozzle Finder can recommend an X-Nozzle best suited to you. Download the app for free
from Google Play or the App Store.
LEFT: Explaining the SATjet X5500 solution.


































































































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