Help! Help! Help!

[LARRYADAMS]

I need help, my airbrush is blowing air into the bottom feed bottle. I have a single action Badger 200 NH. This just started today. I wanted to try something that I read on the lessons page, about taking the cap off the tip in order to airbrush a better line. But I found that my brush won't work like that. So I put the cap back on and tried to paint. All of the sudden when I pressed the button, paint squirt out of the bottle tops air hole. So after I cleaned up the mess, I started to check the airbrush to find out what was going on. What I discovered was that when I put the air cap back on, air started coming from the part that you insert the tube of the paint bottle cap into.
Any ideas, I really don't want to have to send my airbrush in for repair I'm just getting started.
Please help!

Thank you

Single action Larry

[LARRYADAMS]

Never mind. Got it solved all by myself.

Thanks anyway

[Diaz Dezine]

Sorry Larry but I had to laugh out loud with that story! That has happened to me a few times and I freaked just like you did and it was a heck of a mess.
Glad everything worked out for ya.
DIAZ

[heartless]

yup, has happened at least once to just about everyone i think.

and no, you cant take the cap off the Badger brushes...they are designed a little differently.

[LARRYADAMS]

Yeah, it sure scared the heck out of me! I found out that there is a small sleeve, around the tip of the needle that fell off when I took the cap off the tip. So after a good search I found the piece on the carpet, and I was going to vacuum just before I took out my airbrush to practice my painting. Good thing I procrastinate sometimes (lol)!

Thanks for the replys

Larry

[xzotic ink]

i did the same thing, i wanted that secret fine line, and was like what the hell, its not working, well with the iwata, there is actually two caps, and i took both off instead of the one, and was stuck miserable for a couple of hours, but now you wont forget how to fix it

[LARRYADAMS]

I sure won't!

Larry

[redneck]

I lost 2 O rings off of badger 100, the last 1 flew off when I press on the trigger , I will never find something that small so consider yourself lucky that you found the missing part

[LARRYADAMS]

I feel very lucky that I found that piece it is very small and I sometimes have alot of other junk on my floor, until I decide to do a complete cleaning. And I was just about to vacuum.

Larry

[egneg]

I dropped the one off of my 200 also, I had all but given up when my wife says "whats this?" I am much more careful now.

[LARRYADAMS]

That sounds alot like me.