I am new to airbrush painting, so I bought cheap single action Badger airbrush with propellant cans sort for testing it out. The whole package only costed me $35 or so.
I found that my paint flow is very unstable even though I have not changed anything. Almost every time I press the trigger, tha paint volume is different than the previous. Recently there is mostly only air, no paint.
I have checked everything I could, nothing is obviously wrong to me.
The nozzle appears to be clear too, as I can blow air thru it. The paint is just typical acrylic paint. The air hose has a knob at the side where you connect to the can, I guess it works like a regulator ? But no matter how I turn it, it makes no difference. The amount of the air seems to be the same.
I just want to know if the problem is at air source, the airbrush or the paint.
Would I be OK if I use a compressor instead ? I don't have a real long term plan. I just want to touch up some of the old models I did. So I would like to avoid investing on a compressor as long as I can get the thing to work and finish up my job this round.
Thanks.