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                        Airbrush maintenance tip

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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Airbrush maintenance tip
                        Posted by MikeV on Saturday, April 19, 2003 12:19 PM
                        I recommend everyone who airbrushes with double-action airbrushes get a bottle of Super Lube or Airolube from an airbrush supplier and put it on the front half of your airbrush needle. This product keeps paint from adhering to your needle as much and also lessens tip dry.

                        I have used it on my airbrush for several years and with paints such as acrylics I can leave paint in the airbrush several days and the paint does not adhere to the needle and the airbrush still works as though nothing were in it. This product also makes the airbrush action smoother and facilitates easier cleaning. It contains no silicone and does not affect paint.

                        The Super Lube can be found at Dixieart.com
                        and the Airolube at CoastAirbrush.com

                        I am in no way affliated with this product or these airbrush shops in any way. I am just passing on a tip that I hope will help you fellow modelers out. Smile [:)]

                        Mike

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        midnightprowler
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: East Bethel, MN
                        Posted by midnightprowler on Saturday, April 19, 2003 1:45 PM
                        Thanks for the tip Mike.
                        Lee

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                        naplak
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by naplak on Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:17 PM
                        I have had the same success with Badger's Needle Juice... It really reduces cleaning!
                        www.naplak.com/modeling ... a free site for modelers www.scalehobby.com/forum/index.php ... a nice Modeling Forum
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Sunday, April 20, 2003 7:38 PM
                        Naplak,

                        I am not familiar with that Badger product but I would imagine it is probably the same stuff repackaged for Badger.

                        I believe the Super Lube is made by Medea (Iwata).

                        Mike

                        “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:20 AM
                        i haven't heard of super lube before. i have an aztek 470 and am always worried that i haven't cleaned it properly. how do you think the lube would go if i put a bit through the inside of the airbrush?
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                        modelmaker66
                        • Member since
                          July 2013
                        • From: Chicago area
                        Posted by modelmaker66 on Monday, February 22, 2016 2:47 PM

                        badger makes a similar product called regdab. yes works good.

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