Cellulose to clean my airbrush

[Guest]

Threw together a 'how to' strip / check your airbrush seals and needle packing video so you can see how to check if it has the relevant seal type to safely spray cellulose (lacquer) thinner.

Hope it's useful.

[video=youtube;g2aQtgzt4ZI]

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Threw together a 'how to' strip / check your airbrush seals and needle packing video so you can see how to check if it has the relevant seal type to safely spray cellulose (lacquer) thinner.Hope it's useful.

[video=youtube;g2aQtgzt4ZI]

Thanks will have a look tomorrow and see if I can solve to problem, thanks all for the great advice

Adrian

[Guest]

I had "tabbed" this thread earlier in the day; could not read it then as had to go to the hydraulics vendor for compressor-fittings, "Big Box" hardware vendor for a couple of scrap-end 2 x 2's very cheap, plus a 6' piece of 2 x 3, to make legs for a "home-brew-starter" spray-booth (plus some flowers to aid the apartment environment in general, never understood before that some of those flowers are more than just decorative), plus to a stationer's to get actual fountain-pen ink (to practice with my Badger 100LF side-feed), and got home just a while ago. I've just read thru, and found everything here very, very helpful, as my air-system is going, and I had run some India-ink (the only ink I had on hand this afternoon) thru the brush earlier in the day.

Therefore the comment about ammonia solution, in particular, was well-taken; I found this on the side of the India-ink bottle: "Higgins Drawing Ink No. 4415 3/4 oz 23 c.c. To dilute add distilled water, with about four drops of aqua ammonia to the ounce. Use on cloth, paper." So, I now have a good basic idea of "what and how" to use for cleaning on that item.

I had picked up, but haven't tried out yet, some Opaque Createx Airbush Colors (unfortunately the local art-shoppe does not yet stock the Createx Illustrator's Base for proper diluting for fine tips, thus starting out with something I don't have to thin-down to practice with, ink). The local does not have their air-cure line of colors, either (regular Createx is heat-cured, and the paint department at the big-box advised an ordinary hair-drier rather than a 1,000W heat-gun meant for heavy-duty paint-stripping that they sell). The correct dilutant extends drying-time (as inside the airbrush nozzle as well), and does not thin the colors badly (specifically says "do not use water for diluting). All the cleaning info on the acryllics vs enamel, etc is therefore very helpful at this end.

I'm following all the information presented here carefully, as I've been wondering about all these issues since the brush arrived, and wondering about enamels (haven't used them in years as they are horrid with a hair-brush, I never had the dexterity for good finishing with them, so avoided enamels generally over the years), especially with the solvent and cleaning issues. I'm going to have to go back over this thread again tomorrow, to let it all sink in, and it couldn't have come round at a better time, as I'm just about to "jump in the pool"!

A Hearty Thank You All Round,

John