Badger 155 anthem siphon questions

Steves86ta

Hey guys i have been reading for a while but first time posting.

 

I recently purchased a new badger anthem 155. It seems to work great. Sprays very well and comes apart easy for cleaning. This is not my first airbrush but first one in a few years 

 

The only problem I have is the siphon tube on the bottle is very difficult to put in to the main body. The aluminum cup it came with is damn near impossible to insert into the main body.

 

Is been a few years since I've had an airbrush. My last one was a paasche with a Badger before that. I don't remember this being an issue. The bottle fall out twice on me today 

 

Do I need to hone it out with a drill bit or something? Maybe the chrome is a little to thick?

 

Does anyone have a picture of how far the bottle should go into the body?

 

Thanks 

Steve 

 

 I have had the opposite problem on my Badgers.  Used to be, the connection from the bottle adapter to the airbrush body was a metal casting.  Then, they cheapened it to make the pickup tube just continue up to become the bottle connector, and I had had these come loose often.  In fact, since I use an old bottle adapter now to eliminate that problem, I find that coming loose a lot too- like the machining of the hole in the brush body is now a bit larger than it used to be (this is a pretty new airbrush).

Thank you for the reply Last night I took a drill bit and "honed" it by hand a tiny bit. That seemed to help. But I still have to really shove the paint devices in for them to work

Steves86ta

Thank you for the reply Last night I took a drill bit and "honed" it by hand a tiny bit. That seemed to help. But I still have to really shove the paint devices in for them to work

 

Steve - I bought a new 155 a few years ago, had difficulty getting the tube of the metal cup to fit into the feed port of the AB. Then it was really hard to withdraw it, and I saw deep gouges in the cup tube from inserting it. A quick call to Badger and the whole 155 kit was replaced very quickly.

Jesus, (Badger tech,) said it was a speck of metal in the feed port of the body that got chromed over, which gouged into the tube of the metal cup. Out of curiosity, when you insert the cup tube into the body port, do you push and twist as well?

That twisting motion ensures the two surfaces will seat against each other, sort of a slight "jamming" of them, which does no harm to either.  Twist and pull backs it right out.

If you have tried that twisting and it didn't cure the falling out problem, just call Badger to arrange the return and replacement. Badger is incredibly easy to work with and is great at customer service. Please let us know how you do.

Patrick