Airless Spray Tip Selector
Choose the Right Spray Tip For Your Project
Choosing a quality tip will determine the quality of your finish and help you save time and money. Each Graco tip is 100% tested for flow rate to ensure the precision and quality needed to deliver a smooth, professional finish.
Graco offers the following airless spray tips for Homeowner and DIY models:
TrueAirless
- Ideal for remodeling contractors, DIYers and Homeowners
- Softspray Technology makes it easier to achieve a professional finish by delivering a softer spray pattern to easily blend each spray pass
- Experience less prep and clean-up time with reduced overspray
- Ability to spray the thickest paints at the lowest possible pressure
- Reverse-A-Clean design makes it easy to clear tip clogs
- Magnum sprayers include a 515 TrueAirless spray tip, just one of 16 available TrueAirless tip sizes
TC Pro
- Exceptional spraying results across all TC Pro handheld applications
- Reverse-A-Clean design makes it easy to clear tip clogs
- Only use with TC Pro guard
- TC Pro sprayers include a 514 TCP spray tip with another 11 sizes available
TrueCoat 360
- Reverse-A-Clean design makes it easy to clear tip clogs
- TrueCoat 360 sprayers include both sizes of available tips, with 4 and 12 inch fan widths
Find the Right Spray Tip for Your Project
By answering a couple of quick questions, the Tip Selector will help you choose the best tip for your sprayer and project.

Understanding the Numbers
- The first digit is half of the fan width, the "5" in "517" equals a 10 inch spray fan width (5 x 2 = 10)
- The last two digits are the size of the tip opening in thousandths of an inch, the "17" in "517" means the tip hole size is .017 inch
Speed Advice
- Use smaller tip size when applying thinner materials such as stains and enamels
- Use larger sizes for thicker materials such as exterior, latex and oil based paints
- The larger the size of the tip hole, the faster the material leaves the gun
- A 313 tip sprays faster than a 411 tip
Understanding Tip Wear
Choosing the right spray tip is essential for ensuring a quality finish -- no matter which coating material is being sprayed. However, spray tips will wear with normal use.
When a tip wears, the orifice size increases and the fan width decreases. This causes more paint to hit a smaller area, which wastes paint and slows productivity. It’s important to replace a tip when it gets worn to ensure a precise spray pattern, maximum productivity and quality finish.
Tip Wear Advice
- Tip life varies by coating. Recommended replacement times:
- Latex - Replace after 15-40 gallons
- Oils & Stains - Replace after 35-60 gallons
- Extend tip life by spraying at the lowest pressure that breaks up the coating into a complete spray pattern (atomize).
- Do not increase the pump pressure – this only wastes paint and causes unnecessary pump component wear.