r/airbrush

This is a brand new, just opened GSI Creos PS-270 Mr. Procon Boy WA Platinum. I have not used it with paint yet. There is a little brown dot inside the paint cup where the paint cup is welded to the body (just above the needle in the image). Researching a little, it may be the brass body not fully plated during chroming and Google AI says this can be common. I did some cross referencing because the AI had abstract sources. By looking at other photos of similar posts, I can't see anything that looks similar to this little dot.

I am new to this hobby and my first airbrush was the Sparmax MAX-3, so I am unfamiliar if this little dot on my new airbrush is fine or not. Advice?

Diagnostics I have tried:

Cleaning with Tamiya airbrush cleaner - it did not remove it, so I don't think it is factory oil residue.

Wiping a loose and dry cotton bud over it - no chrome flakes present, it did not feel like it was catching the cotton fibres.

Spraying airbrush cleaner through it was fine.

Nothing else has been sprayed through it.

I’m at my wits end trying to figure this out and it didn’t take me long to get there. As the title says I’m using a Harbor Freight black widow airbrush. I only use acrylic. I’ve been using a cheap avanti compressor. Up front, I haven’t always been diligent on cleaning it. Anyway, over time it’s been performing worse and worse..harder to get good flow, spattering of paint etc. Now when I put the nozzle and nozzle cap on it hardly blows any air much less paint. Take those off and it works fine. The nozzle, needle, and cap are all .5. I’m wondering if the issue could be those 3 holes and if there could be dried paint in there. Using my ear hole camera I can’t see any way to clean those from the back side.

So far, I’ve tried soaking it in alcohol, acetone, and boiling it in water. I’ve taken the little o-ring on the inside out when doing this. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hello everybody.

I’m still a newbie and I have an annoying issue that I’m hoping more experienced folks can help with.

I have a brand new Timbertech AG-183K airbrush (it’s their “fancier” model, but still a cheap). I’ve added a couple pictures so you can get an idea of what I’m dealing with. Haven’t painted with at all yet, as I wanted to make sure everything was working okay. As I was testing out the trigger the needle kept sticking. So I take it mostly apart, cleaned the needle etc, reassembled, but started sticking again. So this time I took the nozzle caps off and realized that the issue is the head cap has been factory glued for shipping, and that glue has seeped down into the rubber washer (sorry I forget its real name) (EDIT: o-ring!) and into the nozzle itself, so the whole thing is stuck.

The little wrench it came with is already bent from my efforts, and I do have soft jaw pliers, but sadly they are to small. But I have other pliers I can cushen. However, I’m definitely not strong enough to break the seal. I think my dad could for me, but before I ask him I wanted to ask for advice if anyone has experience with this. Could I just soak the whole thing in cleaner or iso alcohol? Will this damage the rubber? Is there something else I could use to soak that won’t hurt anything? I’m really hoping to desolve the glue a bit before forcing and end up breaking the nozzle.

Any advice would be very appreciated! And please forgive any formatting issues and the wordiness.
Thanks!

Questo diluente va bene per gli acrilici tamiya?

I accidentally broke the nozzle off of my Iwata Neo and am having a really difficult time removing the old threads.

I’ve tried using a toothpick to twist the threads out, but ended up just breaking off the end of the stick, and I also tried using an xacto knife like is demonstrated in Iwata’s official video on how to get these out, but I just shredded the metal up without getting the whole stem of the nozzle.

Any suggestions on what to try at this point. Or is the body of this Neo FUBAR?

Started to get back into model car kits again and decided on these, hopefully they last me a long time. Got them both for about 170 USD which was the cheapest as compared if I got them locally. Can't wait to start airbrushing!

Decided to redo the lids for the previous video I posted..decided to really make them come from nowhere..in last video you can see the black was too strong where I now faded the base back in..so when kandy goes on it’ll be a clean break.oh and the white shit was a quickie from other day😂

Applied the satin version of this to a gundam kit as a base...I took a picture of the wrong bottle 😅 so same brand though Anyways any tips on removing it? I soaked the parts in hot soapy water and it didn't loosen it really...any other suggestions asides from aggressively brushing it off or scraping it?

Brand new H&S ultra 2024 0.45 everytime i pull the trigger 50-100% this keeps happening. Product builds up in the ANTI-clog. Then i spray again and it sputters all the build up paint on the model (guess what happens). How to stop this from happening?

(Sorry for the bad angle in the video, I was trying to get the squeaky gurgling audio)
Ive been having this issue with my airbrush almost every time I use it, It’ll work perfectly fine for a few seconds but then the paint will start to taper off or fade until it eventually stops coming out, so then I do a quick clean to just try to fix any clogs that might have formed and then it’ll work normally again only to do that same thing where it tapers off. It’ll also do this thing where it makes this squeaky gurgling sound and only let paint out every time it squeaks. I water down my airbrush paint and I don’t have any cleaning salutation so I usually just use water and the cleaning supplies that came with my airbrush. I’m still not super familiar with airbrushes so I know it’s definitely something I’m doing wrong so does anyone know why this may be happening and how I can take better care of it so it’ll stop? (The airbrush is a dual action Neoeco NCT-SJ81)

From left to right, Alclad Gloss Black Base, Alclad Chrome, Alclad Aqua Glass. All three were started at the same time, but I kept one of each as a way to show the side by side.

I’ve seen some posts where people get the chrome with a mirror finish like the black base looks, but when I apply the chrome the glossiness dulls out, and I think the aqua gloss dulls it even more.

Steps I took:
I have the glossiness of the black base down, not even orange peel - Check.

Wait a week… (to let black cure, just didn’t get a chance to until then)

Light coats of chrome on black base. And I meant *light*. Lower PSI Barely get anything there first pass- and immediately the gloss sheen is lost to some degree. I press on.

Wait another week to let cure.
Noticed there was a light coat of powdery chrome on the surface. Wiped them with micro fiber.

Applied aqua gloss on the last spoon. Sheen is even less glossy.

Sadness.

Any tips. Pweeze.