I'm retiring some Badger airbrushes, free of charge.
First, I know about the Airbrush/Painting section, but this seems maybe the best way to get this to more members.
I have a large collection of airbrushes, I only use a few now, the others are sitting in my tool cabinet, they're ready to go back to work. My wish is to get them into the hands of those that want to get to the airbrushing part of modeling, but perhaps can't afford one, especially youngsters.
If some of you members are active in a modeling club, or just know someone that is ready to start painting with an airbrush and could help them learn to use one, I would consider it the ideal way for these Badger's to continue as useful tools.
By way of Don Wheeler's website and Ken at Badger, I have learned to rebuild them as needed. They have new needle bearings and the needles/nozzles are in perfect order, new air valves as needed, they are tested and work as new, appearance is also like new.
The ones going away are two Badger 200's, two Badger 200NH's. One of the NH's is new, used only to test for function. They're all of the suction feed type, I will also include the metal feed cups and a copy of the manual.
Over the past two years I've given away several other airbrushes, hopefully being used well for helping some modelers step to the next level of model painting. So for those in an active club, please see if you could direct these to someone that would be helped, as they advance in the hobby.
Another use could be for club member's to have a community one. That's how a few of my other donations worked, in a large model railroad club. That way they didn't even have to buy a compressor, the club has a few on site.
These will be free, I'll even take care of the shipping, within the USA. Please respond here on the forum, if there is some interest in getting these Badger's back in use, then I can decide about moving to the PM phase for address info. I'm nearly 78, modeling has been an important activity for me for about 70 of those years. I'll be happy if this could help someone else advance in the hobby.
Thanks for considering it.
Patrick