Thread: bottom feed vs dropped bottles...

Is it possble to keep the paint ready up near the gun if I attached a small rubber hose that will fit both the bottle and the reciever part of the brush? I thought about this after realizing that so many people have to use two hands with their bottom feed brushes to keep the bottles on...why this issue hasn't been resolved more prevolently beats me. anyway, I thought about using a 12" rubber or acrylic hose of sorts to connect the bottle top to the gun so i wouldn't have to hold the brush with both hands. any ideas or such?

Originally Posted by wump

Is it possble to keep the paint ready up near the gun if I attached a small rubber hose that will fit both the bottle and the reciever part of the brush? I thought about this after realizing that so many people have to use two hands with their bottom feed brushes to keep the bottles on...why this issue hasn't been resolved more prevolently beats me. anyway, I thought about using a 12" rubber or acrylic hose of sorts to connect the bottle top to the gun so i wouldn't have to hold the brush with both hands. any ideas or such?

Hmm,,could work,,but then you need to make some kind of stand for the
bottle so it wont fall as soon as you move airbrush and hose,,
/kimmo

Originally Posted by landsbro

Hmm,,could work,,but then you need to make some kind of stand for the
bottle so it wont fall as soon as you move airbrush and hose,,
/kimmo

yeah, that's not a problem. oak frame stock, a drill to match the jar and there you go. I do wonder though how long it would take the paint to rise up to the gun or if it would be better to just have the paint setting a bit hiring then the level that i'm working at. any thoughts?

The only time I ever had a bottle fall off, it was a missmatched bottle/brush set up. My own fault. As Diaz mentioned, most times holding the bottle is just a way to increase control, not to avoid an accident.
TABG

Airpower Art Studio

ah...okay, thanks guys. when i played around years ago, i didn't pay attention to anything other then just pressing the trigger...now it's all about r&d. My grex rep also told me that theirs are threaded as many bottles fall off, i'll enlighten him later today. thanks again for the help.
8-)

I have never had a bottle fall of either and the only reason i will use two hand is to keep a steady hand. I tend to shake a little as I have got older and when I try to hold a straight line. It sucks getting old. There are some multiple color setups with long feed tubs that attach to the airbrush. I would think you would need a little higher pressure to suck the paint up to the brush and you would loose more paint come clean up time becase of the paint in the long tube. Pluss I would hate to see the hole on the top of the bottle get plugged and a bunch of back pressure buld up in it. Imagin pulling that tube off and the fountian of paint you would have spraying out. I saw that happen to an artist in Florida just with a bottle, when he took the bottle off the brush it sprayed 4 people before he could stop it. Ha ha ha! it was funny.

Fred

LMAO!!!!Great points too. okay, so you've all cleared things up for me on this, you're great! this is a good forum indeed. one of the reasons i stopping airbrushing as a kid was i didn't have enough backbone to stand up to the hobby store jerk who was too impatient to help me. thanks everyone!!!