"AIRBRUSH CLEANING"by Don
Johnson
On this page you will find examples of
how to clean your airbrush.
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In this little example I
will show you how I have been cleaning my bottom feed airbrush for years and
hope you find it as useful as I have. This by the way is the only way I clean
my airbrush regularly I might take my airbrush completely apart once a month if
that.
Owning, working in a airbrush T Shirt shop
in a Mall setting for years this is the best way I found to clean my airbrushs
everyday.
What you will need for this:
* Plastic bottle like pictured below with a York top, these you can
purchase at just about any art or craft store.
* A spay off can, waste basket (some where to spray the cleaning
fluid) in this example I use my spray off area built into my easel. (For plans
on building your own easel for under $100.00 check our
Airbrush Artist
Magazine)
* And of course a bottom feed airbrush such
as Passche VL, Iwata BCS eclipse.
* Your favorite cleaning
solution
This works equal as well
with solvent based paint as it does water based paints.
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Pictured below: With the bottle
filled with your favorite cleaning solution insert the top of the York top into
that part of your airbrush where the paint bottle, color cup inserts,
attaches. |
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Pictured below: With the air turned
on to your airbrush and with the airbrush pointed toward your spay off area
depress the trigger and squeeze the plastic bottle forcing clean solution into
the airbrush. |
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Pictured below: After you have
sprayed a few minutes unscrew the chucking nut allowing you to pull the needle
out. |
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Pictured below: Pull the needle out
and carefully wipe it off making sure there is no paint left on the
needle. |
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Pictured below: With the needle in
a safe place we will now repeat the York top cleaning but this time we will
insert the York top into where your needle inserts into your airbrush as I'm
pointing to below. |
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Pictured below: Again spray off
your cleaning solution into the spray off area as we did before only this time
forcing cleaning solution down into the the back of the airbrush. This will
clean out the entire inside of your airbrush. |
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Pictured below: After spraying for
a few seconds insert the needle back into the airbrush pull it back out, check
it for paint, no paint you are good to go the airbrush is clean. I hope you
found this helpful and believe if you follow these simple cleaning instructions
you'll find cleaning your airbrush is really very easy. |
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clean your airbrushes if your using water based paints. Watch for new video's
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One more little tip is when I'm
done for the night and the airbrush is clean as instructed above I insert the
needle but do not all the way leaving it just short of seating in the tip. This
way when you start airbrushing next time first thing you will do is pull the
needle to check it, insert it all the way back in, tighten the chucking nut,
put back handle back on and spray away with an airbrush that functions
properly. This just becomes habit after awhile and insures you have a nice
clean needle, airbrush to start your day.
Until next
time
thanks
Don Johnson
Airhead Airbrush.Com, Inc
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