Badger 100

I've considered a 100 over the years but just keep using the old version 200 often with side cup. It uses the same tips and needles. I painted a 1/25 scale engine with that yesterday and an interior today, both with .25 setup and side cup. It's over 40 years old and that .25 is original.

Don Stauffer

While I do have a DA Badger 150, the 100 is still my goto brush unless I am doing camouflage or shading.  I am on my second 100, replacing my first one after forty years.

Only thing I don't like about new one is bottle adapter is press fit, and it occasionally falls off. I have tried everything I can think of to get a tighter fit, to no avail.  Not a big problem but it can create a mess when it falls off.

 

 

I only use the cup with the 150 and have learnt to spray with a fingur under it to stop it falling off.

While I do have a DA Badger 150, the 100 is still my goto brush unless I am doing camouflage or shading.  I am on my second 100, replacing my first one after forty years.

Only thing I don't like about new one is bottle adapter is press fit, and it occasionally falls off. I have tried everything I can think of to get a tighter fit, to no avail.  Not a big problem but it can create a mess when it falls off.

I have had a 150 for about 25 years and a 100 for 5. Love them both, i keep the 100 for close up fine work as the top cup doesn't get in the way and the 150 i have the medium set up for more general use.

I have never had to use their customer service, but was thinking of sending of the 150 for a check up.

I can see that. My little playpen for a/b's  is steel ships, as the worm targets dont have need of a spray gun- they hadn't been invented yet.

There was a time i liked to build fiddly little 1/72 aircraft, in particular the Regia.

Won't get into the German stuff, but I did a lot of weird masking which is an artsy kind of thing.

The cost or lackish thereof of Badgers suggests to many just having a small crew of them with different orifice sizes.

I have a Badger 105 Patriot with a G-cup. I have three needle-nozzle sets. I will upgrade at some point when I become better at the craft, but it works well for me now.

Bill

Dear HighDesert,

I've got to throw in with you.  I have a Badger 100 with a side feed cup that I got in 1986.  It's like a little jewel and is perfect for small batch painting and fine details.  I also have a Badger 150 bottom feeder and a Badger 200g (gravity feed).  Both are 30-35 years old and still work perfectly.