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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #13502 in Home Improvement
- Brand: Wagner
- Model: 514001
- Fabric type: 75% plastic, 10% metal, 10% Polyester Fiber, 5% other fibers
- Platform: Windows
- Format: CD-ROM
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .0 pounds
Features
- Variable speed - paint up to 53 square feet per minute
- 120V electric power for optimum performance
- Reverse feature and quick clean connection for fast clean-up
- Includes trim pad, corner pad, 18" extension, 3/8" nap roller cover, 3/4" nap roller cover
- Fast, easy clean up
From the Manufacturer
The Wagner Power Roller Max is the newest trimming and roller system. Complete kit for trim, corners and large projects. Feeds directly from paint can. Ergonomic, soft grip, quick-disconnect handle. Reversing feature and quick clean connection for fast clean-up. Comes with 20 ft. hose for 40 ft. work area.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
83 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
By Chaos Herder
Whether or not you will like this product depends almost entirely on what you're painting how you view painting.
IF, like my husband, you want to get a lot of paint on a lot of walls quickly, so you can mark that task off of your list, this will become an indispensable weapon in your "get-it-done" arsenal, and it probably won't be as huge a concern for you that you get every single last molecule of paint out of the machine. (My husband has gone through two of these in older models)
IF, like me, you are looking for a perfect finish coat, and you are, like me, annoyingly meticulous about your tidiness, you will find yourself moving the roller slowly enough to prevent splattering and to perfect the coverage, leaving you holding the weight of the roller, hose and a quart of paint (over your head if you are doing a ceiling) for a long, exhausting time.
HAVING SAID THAT, our rooms are big, and I will use it over and over again for my new-construction prime coat in whole rooms. Even a thick, good quality roller has me dipping about every four square feet, with the heaviness of our interior wall texture. I will also use it when painting a lot of wall area a single color. I am just not tough enough to use it for ceilings.
Being 5'3", I really appreciate the LONG HOSE. It eliminates any need for a battery-powered unit, just to deal with changing batteries. Park the thing by the closest outlet and go.
EXTENSION TUBE: It greatly enhances my puny wingspan, so I don't have to reposition the ladder and everything else nearly so often.
EDGER: I was disappointed in the surface area of the edger. Flocked edgers like those tend to push the paint more than depositing it on the wall anyway, but with no more surface area than has available, I eventually just gave up on the drooling mess and threw it in a bucket of soapy water until I could finish.
CORNER TOOL: The corner tool was not as frustrating as the edger, largely because the motion used to paint the corners is already up-and-down, and will hook up the drips by default. However, because I already have a brush in my hand for cutting-in the ceiling, it seems like a waste of time to load the tool for four corners and clean the bugger later.
PAINT SHIELD: Don't go without it. If your pressure on the roller is not perfectly even, (it won't be) the roller joint will gap and drip intermittently. This item realy helps.
The claim that you can paint 53 square feet per minute is a little deceiving. If you just turn on the paint flow and go, at virtually any speed, you will find yourself in a drooly mess. The roller core is HUGELY improved from the versions previous, but it still will not provide consistent distribution throughout the roller, so you will still be back-rolling to even out the coverage.
The extensive cleaning was completely expected, so I was not upset by it. The claim that you can run the paint back into the can using the motor is also misleading. (It does not run backwards into the can, you have to run it through the paint hose.) You don't want to run the pump dry, so you have to hook it up to water to do it, and it isn't hard to figure out that you will be running water into the can in very short order. It may have reduced waste slightly, but hardly worth promoting the idea. I very much appreciate the quick-clean hose attachment. You just hook up a garden hose and it runs out both directions until the water runs clear. You can't skip the soap phase, but for rinsing, it is perfect.
If you purchase this product with realistic goals, you will be pleased with it. If you would like to think of this as a magic wand that will take the work out of painting and deliver a home-magazine-award-winning finish, you will be bitterly disappointed. Painting is work. The question is in how you want to distribute your energy doing it.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
By Y. R. Wu
I have the 980 and it works great 990 has a variable speed feed which would help with keeping the pad soaked (see my comment on saturation)
HOWEVER, I wouldn't break it out unless I had a full room to do. Very easy to keep just the right saturation on the roller so painting goes super fast, but cleanup is a good 30-45 minute operation. Put the roller in a plastic bag (wrapped tightly) between coats so it doesn't dry out and you can do your second coat 4 hours later with no cleaning involved.
The technique I used to keep the roller at the right saturation was to "Pulse" the button. Press the button for a second every every 4 or 5 seconds, if it starts to get too wet you wait longer between pulses, if it starts to get too dry you shorten the time between pulses.
I had a broken part on my power roller which didn't affect the function - Wagner sent me a replacement, no questions asked (Use email though, their phone support is lame)
If you've found this review helpful, please let me know!
27 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
By V
I actually bought this to help paint the stucco exterior of my house. Got one wall done and started down another and "snap snap.." You could hear the motor freewheeling. I was using a 5gal bucket at the time and deduced a paint glob from the top drying a little got sucked up in it. As I just got the thing from the hardware store I exchanged it and filtered all the rest of the paint into 1 gal cans and it did the job. Saved a ton of time, I'll give it that. Cleaned it out real good and put it away.
A few weeks later I went to do an inside paint job. Stuck a brand new gallon of paint in and as soon as it started pumping paint up the hose to the attachments "SNAP!" then freewheeling motor, same as the first one. This time I took it all apart after flushing water through it. There was a tiny chunk of hardened paint that killed it. The way this thing pumps is using rollers against the plastic tubing to push the paint through. ANY obstruction will stop the rollers. There's plastic gearing, of course, and the real kicker is the main drive rod for the "pump" is a 1/4" plastic rod. This is the weak point that broke. Imagine using a plastic toy wrench to tighten bolts with, that's what this basically amounts to.
Unless you're gonna buy this to use on one big job and be done with it I wouldn't ever suggest using this thing. If you already have one that hasn't broke yet, make sure you run TONS of water through it while it's running to clean it. This should flush any paint out of the pump itself. That, and filter all your paint to get and globs out. I'm trying to epoxy the "pump" back together on mine to see if I can get a little more use out of it. For the time it saved me on the stucco I got my money's worth, but it's still very cheaply made.
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