Backflow of air into paint jar

I just had the massive bubbling in the paint cup on my Badger 200G.  The little pointy part of the airtip assembly unscrewed itself, so check all your parts and make sure everything is clean and where it's supposed to be.

I am also new to airbrushing and i also use the paasche vl. I used it for a few week and have had no problems. I use more PSI about 25 lbs. I use tamiya acrlic's mostly, with no problems. If air is backing up into the cup there must be a blockage somewhere. A complete cleaning may be in order.

Bob

If you fix it, please post how you did it.

Hi Liam,

It sounds as if the nozzle isn't properly seated and/or the air cap body (which holds the nozzle in place) isn't screwed down snugly. 

You may wish to check around the "rear" end of the nozzle and the recess in the airbrush body where it seats to see if there is any debris or accumulation of dried paint which may be preventing the nozzle from seating correctly.

 

Thanks all.  I figured out that it had been used with enamels before and not properly cleaned.  I soaked the body and the nozzles in clean paint thinner for three days (kinda forgot about it, actually) and then cleaned it with pipe cleaners, etc., and then blew it out with high pressure for a while.  That did the trick!

Then I let my seven-year old son *finally* paint the body for his 1/48 Blue Angel F-18, which he had been dying to do for a week.  It looks great -- by which I mean it looks awful, with lots of runs and orange-peel effect, but what the heck, he's seven and neither of us have used it before, so it's a great start.  Nothing that sanding and lots of practice won't fix.

 

Cheers,

 

Liam