Thread: the paint skips
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Old 04-10-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Default Re: the paint skips

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Originally Posted by Rios87 View Post
hello everyone,
today as i was airbrushing i ran in to problem. when i began brushing my paint flow and everything was going smoothly, but about 5 minutes later the paint flow started skipping, it didn't have a continuous flow anymore. how would i solve this problem. please help. thank you in advance.
rios
Hi rios
hmm,,if you tell us what kind of paint you are using it would
help us too,,and what type of ab,gravity feed or bottom feed.
anyhow sounds that you have some dirt/dried paint in the nozzle
think you need to clean it,,if you got a gravity feed(cup above)
add some water or cleaning liquid to the cup and "backflush" cover the opening of the nozzle with your finger tip and press the trigger gently
now you will see bubbles in the cup this forces the dirt in to the cup
empty the cup and add some more liquid and do it again
repeat this untill the liquid is free from dirt.

another thing is that the needle can be bent
/kimo
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