Anyone with airbrush experience, PLEASE HELP
11 years ago
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Anyone with airbrush experience please help!!
My airbrush is driving me nuts! So I started today with my airbrush being a bit spotty (but spraying some paint), so I stopped and gave it a good cleaning. But when I went to continue painting, nothing would come out of the airbrush. Its a gravity feed so I checked to see if the paint was bubbling in the cup but it wasn't. I took the airbrush a part again to see if I missed something when I noticed that the needle and parts were completely dry-meaning that the paint wasn't brought up from the cup.
I have cleaned and fiddled with it for hours and I can't figure it out. I even started messing with my air compressor which is always left at the same setting, but not even that has shown any result.
I only use createx paint, so I don't think its the paint either, and it won't even take up its airbrush cleaner fluid.
Please help! I'm about to chuck this thing out the window!
My airbrush is driving me nuts! So I started today with my airbrush being a bit spotty (but spraying some paint), so I stopped and gave it a good cleaning. But when I went to continue painting, nothing would come out of the airbrush. Its a gravity feed so I checked to see if the paint was bubbling in the cup but it wasn't. I took the airbrush a part again to see if I missed something when I noticed that the needle and parts were completely dry-meaning that the paint wasn't brought up from the cup.
I have cleaned and fiddled with it for hours and I can't figure it out. I even started messing with my air compressor which is always left at the same setting, but not even that has shown any result.
I only use createx paint, so I don't think its the paint either, and it won't even take up its airbrush cleaner fluid.
Please help! I'm about to chuck this thing out the window!
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You might want try thinning your paint with this blend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoKJUrISnTo
It has saved my butt plenty of time, though I blend my own paints using acrylic pigments by Academy
If interested in trying this method I follow this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-ENEGy7h2I
Thanks for the help though!