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fontgeek · 12-05-2007

Nat, give the airbrush and tools you used a good thorough rinsing, that cleaner may very well have had ammonia in it, it should be listed in their ingredients. If it does have ammonia, then you need to find a different cleaner.

If your airbrush is working right, you shouldn't be getting paint back in the trigger area. Shy of someone spraying you and your brush down with paint, it would come from one of two or three sources; 1> if you use an gravity feed airbrush, and you are wild in your motions when you paint, and I mean wild enough that you slosh paint back into the trigger area, or 2> you are getting paint coming back through your that packing area your needle passes through, if that is the case with your eclipse, then you will have this problem for as log as you own this brush, or 3> you keep your brushes in holders directly under the area you paint, and the paint inside the brush is the fallout of your normal spraying routine.

If your paint contamination is from sloshing or fallout, then the solution is simple and probably free, if it is because paint is leaking back past the needle, then as I said, you are stuck with the problem until you replace the brush.

If it is coming back past the needle, then it is probably from forcing the needle back through the opening when it was bent or crusty with paint. Both circumstances ream the hole when you force the needle back through. That is why the use of pliers or force is a really bad idea.
Following a good cleaning routine after every day's painting, or when ever you are going to stop for extended periods of time, is a really good idea.
Dump the Paint, Wipe Clean, RInse Clean, Backflush, Pump the Needle Clean, Spray Clean, then you can pull the needle and wipe it down, then clean the needle cap and nozzle cap, use a Qtip and toothpick to clean the trough and reservoir, Wipe the Needle, then give the exterior a good cleaning and inspection before you reassemble your brush and spray straight water through it before packing it away.

12-05-2007	#14 (permalink)
fontgeek magazine subscriber Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 443	Re: 911 Nat, give the airbrush and tools you used a good thorough rinsing, that cleaner may very well have had ammonia in it, it should be listed in their ingredients. If it does have ammonia, then you need to find a different cleaner. If your airbrush is working right, you shouldn't be getting paint back in the trigger area. Shy of someone spraying you and your brush down with paint, it would come from one of two or three sources; 1> if you use an gravity feed airbrush, and you are wild in your motions when you paint, and I mean wild enough that you slosh paint back into the trigger area, or 2> you are getting paint coming back through your that packing area your needle passes through, if that is the case with your eclipse, then you will have this problem for as log as you own this brush, or 3> you keep your brushes in holders directly under the area you paint, and the paint inside the brush is the fallout of your normal spraying routine. If your paint contamination is from sloshing or fallout, then the solution is simple and probably free, if it is because paint is leaking back past the needle, then as I said, you are stuck with the problem until you replace the brush. If it is coming back past the needle, then it is probably from forcing the needle back through the opening when it was bent or crusty with paint. Both circumstances ream the hole when you force the needle back through. That is why the use of pliers or force is a really bad idea. Following a good cleaning routine after every day's painting, or when ever you are going to stop for extended periods of time, is a really good idea. Dump the Paint, Wipe Clean, RInse Clean, Backflush, Pump the Needle Clean, Spray Clean, then you can pull the needle and wipe it down, then clean the needle cap and nozzle cap, use a Qtip and toothpick to clean the trough and reservoir, Wipe the Needle, then give the exterior a good cleaning and inspection before you reassemble your brush and spray straight water through it before packing it away.