Sprayers for fences

[Bill]

I keep walking into sheds and other places selling Cuprinol, Ronseal etc. sprayers, reading what it says on the box and dithering. I'm thinking of trotting into B&Q tomorrow and using my OAP Wednesday pass on a pump up Cuprinol one, but it seems to say on the box something like this is only for use with Cuprinol sprayable muckite or whatever.

I want to spray some oil-based stuff that says wash things out with white spirit. So

1. Is the pump-up Cuprinol sprayer at all suitable or will it clog (don't see why) or dissolve?
2. How does it compare with the rechargeable versions? I tend to think of batteries and switches as having considerable potential for longer term decay and binnability..
3. Would it be even better just to invest in a bigger brush?

What I want to apply to the fence is something like Cuprinol, Wickes or Barrettine fence and shed treatment. All these seem similar, but Cuprinol doesn't say sprayable, the other 2 do.

Also, the colour charts provided by Cuprinol and Wickes show vastly different colours (eg Golden Brown) with the same name. Do the actual products agree with the colour charts? On my trial piece of hidden fence, I now have 3 samples of different products, none of which matches the picture on the tin, and none of which satisfies my wife's desires.

That's partly why I'm thinking of a sprayer. I'm going to have a lot of odd coloured 5 litre samples to use up later on the non-critical back garden fences.

[john]

Just a fence sprayer comment. Over 2 years I bought 3 different models from the sheds and they all fell apart. Cost a few bob as well. They fell apart cos they couldn't handle the Creosote I insist on spraying :) Oddly, the cheap Lidl pump-up has now survived for three years. I've had so much UK kit fail, that I'll now look out for German (or Chinese) products as a matter of course .

[Mark]

Yes or If you have a compressor, an _Internal_ mix spray gun will spray just about any slow drying liquid, they can be dismantled and cleaned quite easily after use and will last a lifetime, unlike any pump-up plastic junk.

They only go for a few pounds at boot sale/autojumbles

If you haven't got a compressor yet, why not!

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[Bill]

Well, here's where we are. I went to B&Q, read the sprayer boxes again, which all seemed to say only water based gunge, looked at the paint for another job, put my OAP card back in the holder and just walked out past the new automated tills and the one sour faced harridan with the 30 yard queue waiting to pay.

Went to Wickes and bought their supposedly perfect for oil-based pump up device and bought the paint.

Got home tried the sprayer to see if it pumped up. It didn't, so read the instructions and thought this is broken and will have to be taken back. Then put glasses on and found the slots in the trigger thing that made it not permanently on, and it's fine. Why don't the instructions mention this? But then half the Atlantic started falling from the sky, so have given up for today.

I have a compressor, and did think of using that, but it would mean a huge long power cable or airline, so a little pump up device will be handier if it works.