airbrush help

it seems to clog easily and is difficult to unclog. is there a way to filter paint?

You can filter the paint through old nylon stockings.

i have been cutting about 50/50, i use enamels only so far. should the paint be thinner?

What are you using to thin the paint? Try using laquer thinner. I have been using it for the last several years and find it works great. I think your paint is drying fast because of your mixing ratio; you may want shift the raito to more paint.

easy way to unclog?

I'd give the brush a good cleaning...break it down and get into the nooks and crannies. Between that, the filter, it should be all right.

Good luck

ok. can they be new?

i do use laquer thinner exclusively. i have to take it apart to unclog. i clean very carefully. i'll try the ratio and stocking. thanks.

If you can get the girl to sit still through that... ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE

once i lick my eyebrows.....

There's no need to filter paint if you use the usual stuff (ie. Humbrol, Testor, Tamiya, Gunze, etc)

Should not. Looks like inadequate thinner, insufficient air flow or dirty nozzle.

The Paasches and Badgers share a common design "flaw": they have very narrow tips (ie. little space between the nozzle and the needle). If some paint dries here, it can act as a catalyzer and speed up the clogging, although this happens rather with paints that dry _and_ cure, like acrylics do, rather than with pure solvent-based paints like the enamels.

I had a VL and thinning Pactra and Testors paint worked best using ODORLESS Thinner from the hardware sore. This is an ODORLESS version of Mineral Spirits.

I have since switched to a Badger 150 and a Badger 200. The best brush I ever had was a Thayer and Chandler (I think a C) in 1969.

Compared to Badgers, Pasches and Thayer and Chanlers, the Testors brushes are (in my humble opinion) terrible and hard to control.

In any case, an airbrush is like a target pistol. It works best when

Acetone eats everything, including dried acrylics.

Jim Klein

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And the Testors Airbrush Thinner is more highly refined still. For cleaning, I use what you mention, but for actual thinning for spraying, I use the Testors.

It's not the tool, but how you use it. They work, but take effort. Learn to use one of these well, and everything else is childs play. (well... all of them are to me anyway :)

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I just stick with lacquer thinner. I need anything stronger I use carburator or brake cleaner.... (none of this is good for us anyway right ?)

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