Hot rod Iwatta airbrush

[Guest]

At the show I was at last weekend, two people on our stand were airbrushing with an H&S, and when one of them disassembled it, he first unscrewed the needle at the back, pulled it into the airbrush body, away from the nozzle, then unscrewed the nozzle and pushed/pulled the needled out the front.

However, he then re-assembled it by pushing the needle in from the rear, which I thought negated the principal advantage of the ability to remove it from the front — namely, that you don’t run the risk of pushing the delicate tip into something solid.

I later unscrewed the nozzle of the other guy’s H&S, and was a little dismayed to discover that if you do so, the whole front of the needle is immediately exposed and in danger of being hit by the nozzle parts you’re taking out. This because unlike the Badger and Iwata airbrushes I’m used to, H&S only has a single cap on the front, and the nozzle is essentially loose inside of that. Unscrew the cap and the nozzle comes out too.

I think all the fuss is about not dragging paint back through the chamber. It is a pain to take off the nozzle assembly everytime do you a quick clean - I just think wear and tear. But if you flush it through I guess it’s ok to just get the needle out the back. I just wanted to get both POV