why do they make transparant gaskets in spray paint guns?

[coppercone2]

so you can't see them when decide to bake the paint on it?

Is there a reason they use translucent material?

[coppercone2]

and in gas regulators too

[Electro Detective]

Unless there is a specific reason, I'll vote that it's either to break balls and coax you to buy 'consumables' like transparent gaskets sold in a 6 pack, 

or upgrade/buy a 'better' gun or regulator

This is after you jump all the air compressor FAD and Duty Cycle hurdles, and ready to get spraying,

or MIG/TIG welding... 

[coppercone2]

Well standard size orings fit just fine and seem to work. I am wondering if there is something special going on here
 I never saw transparant plastic gaskets or orings before. Their not very soft either. All the gas regulators seem to have similar ones, but they are more milky white.

[Kleinstein]

Some of the gasket materials in there pure form are transparent. Adding color would add cost and could make them chemical less resistant. So there are sometimes transparent gaskets. So far a know some made from LDPE, polyamide and PVDF.

Especially with paint on it they don't look different from colored ones 

[Electro Detective]

Might even be a perverse 'sex sells' marketing wank for... see-thru gaskets ? 

Sexy Land may start stocking them soon, along with all the other stuff they flog     I will never sneak in to check out   


Giggles aside, perhaps flaws show up better at the quality control stage during manufacturing,

and or as the gasket ages or about to fail  =