MARSHALLTOWN The Premier Line E400 The Enforcer Portable Texture Sprayer

• 2.5 Gallon Capacity
• One Air Hose from any Compressor Pressurizes both the Tank & Hopper Gun
• Piston Seal Cleans Inner Tank Walls
• Move from Job-to-Job without Clean Up
• Efficiently Refill using a Mud Pump

I like this overall. We only use it for patch and remodel work now. It really shines texturing closets, stairwells, small bathrooms and odd shapes where a hopper gun is difficult to use.

After texturing four whole houses, seven remodels and dozens of patches, we have figured out the few bugs. It is very sensitive to air pressure and flow. We also had the gun start leaking mud all over the operators hand the second time we used it. We took the gun apart, cleaned it, put it back together with new RTV silicone and it works great now. You have to make sure that the selected nozzle size is centered over the outlet hole on the gun or the pattern and size of the texture is negatively affected. You also want to stop and refill it before it runs out or it will shoot a few big globs of mud right as the tank runs dry.

One thing you have to do is keep the lid really clean, any buildup of mud and you can't get the lid off without a hammer and prybar.

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Initial tests indicate the Marshalltown E400 Enforcer will do the texturing work that I expected of it and it appears to be a well designed and manufactured piece of equipment. However, what you really need to know, ahead of time, is that the compressor used to drive it must, at a minimum, deliver 5.0 CFM at 40 PSI. This information was only available on a 2" by 1" sticker appended, seemingly, as an afterthought, to the front cover of the Enforcer Instruction Manual that shipped with the product. Compressors with such output are typically bulky twin tank units in the $275 to $375 and up price range. A pancake-style compressor delivering around 3.7 CFM at 40 PSI does not meet the minimum requirement to drive the E400. However, ganging two pancake units through a "Y" manifold with inline check (non-return) valves on the "Y" for the feeds from the compressors and setting each compressor's regulator to the same output pressure, is a potential workaround, if you know what you are doing (but not for dummies).