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| MGMPainting |  Airbrush spraying...odd. |
 Member Since: October 18, 2013  RK: 1 MP: 0   | Friday February 21, 2014 7:49 PM So my Badger Krome has been misbehaving, and no amount of cleaning so far has fixed it. Here's what it's doing:1. Depressing and pulling back the trigger causes paint to spray normally and then after a moment completely stop. If I let off the trigger and then depress and pull back again it starts back up again as normal, and then repeats. It doesn't "seem" to be clogged...it doesn't take higher PSI or a more open trigger to get spray to start again. In fact, at first it acts completely normal every time. This is extremely frustrating. It even happens when spraying pure water or airbrush cleaner. 2. Sometimes, even after the last thing I did with it was thoroughly clean it in the ultrasonic cleaner, it won't aerosolize the paint properly. This happens with paint thinned more or less and PSI lower and higher. Typically I spray about 15-20 PSI. 3. This one I just noticed today, and it's really puzzling to me. When I put the brush through the ultrasonic cleaner, the areas where the most "smoked" paint occurs is the area around the needle chuck. AFAIK, paint shouldn't even be getting back there. I don't pull the needle back through the brush with paint in the pot, and I haven't been able to locate any missing or broken rubber seals. 4. Two parts of my airbrush have changed color. I use Iwata-Medea Airbrush Cleaner. I mix it with water in the ultrasonic, except the small tip parts, trigger, and needle chuck are put in a small cup of pure airbrush cleaner inside the ultrasonic bath. Here's a picture of the parts:  [[Edited by MGMPainting on Friday February 21, 2014 7:50 PM]] [[Edited by MGMPainting on Friday February 21, 2014 7:51 PM]] |
| MGMPainting | RE: Airbrush spraying...odd. |
Member Since: October 18, 2013 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Saturday February 22, 2014 12:35 PM So I tried the nozzle from the Krome in my Sotar 20/20 and had no issues, so it's not that. Aside from the trigger assembly the rest of the parts look different, so I guess I'll try the rest of them one by one in my husband's Krome...If anyone has any suggestions or experience with this I'd really appreciate some input! On another note, all the gripes I had with the Sotar that made me use my Krome exclusively are no longer gripes. I think maybe the Sotar just wasn't a good airbrush for me to learn on. It was a joy to use today, however! |
| DreamKnight | RE: Airbrush spraying...odd. |
  Member Since: February 22, 2011 RK: 1 MP: 0 | Saturday March 1, 2014 11:33 AM The sotar OR the krome aren't good brushes to learn from. You're always going to get clogging and quicker dry tipping. It sounds like your nozzle. When you say nozzle, which part are you talking about? What's happening is it SOUNDS like you got dry speck of paint in the nozzle or something and it's clogging (thus why paint is going into the trigger area). One thing you might want to just try is to get a new needle, nozzle and spray regulator set and switch those three parts out. It should work. I don't know why those parts turned to that color. It must have reacted to something you used to clean it.. BTW, you don't need to or shouldn't (even though my old video shows you) to ultrasonic the whole airbrush. You can and I would only suggest doing that once in a blue moon. The other thing you can try is if the sotar is work, try this. change the spray regulator, nozzle and needle from the sotar over to the krome. The needle will stick out the back of the krome and you won't be able to screw in the lower body but this is to just test to see if it's those parts or not. Chung "Peach... I can eat a peach for hours..." |
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