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couple more questions
Posted by NEW MEX on Monday, May 24, 2004 3:00 PM
In the Jan. issue of FSM thie artical on choosing your first airbrush the part on the badger 200NH says it can accept either a siphon bottle or a color cup. is this only true on the new ones or will it work on my 30 year old 200? also found another bottle of Testors enamel paint ,olive drab no. FS34087 what's it used for ?
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Posted by MikeV on Monday, May 24, 2004 7:02 PM
Any siphon-feed airbrush will accept color cups or bottle assemblies.

Mike

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 7:29 PM
I bought a color cup for my old 200 a while back. They are a friction fit and no cap. After many spills, I gave up and bought an Omni 4000.Approve [^]
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Posted by MusicCity on Monday, May 24, 2004 9:16 PM
I have one that will fit either my Omni 3000 or my Badger 200. I used it once or twice but spent too much time worrying about spilling paint and went back to bottles. They don't get in my way very much anyway, and I've got the tube set so I can suck 'em dry Smile [:)].
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 24, 2004 9:59 PM
here's a tip. put a LITTLE teflon tape on the sides, so it fits in better.
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Posted by MikeV on Monday, May 24, 2004 10:37 PM
1337,

You don't need to do that as they are taper fit.
T-shirt artists have 20-30 airbrushes with bottles connected and nobody uses Teflon tape on them as it is unecessary.

Mike

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Posted by MusicCity on Monday, May 24, 2004 10:43 PM
Plus it lets them slide OUT as easily as they slide IN. Nasty thing to have happen over the top of a model.

I had forgotten all about that one and it is the one thing I dislike about bottom feed brushes. I had a bottle fall out of the airbrush once while painting an R/C body. Not a lot of paint got out, but laquer on Lexan doesn't come off easily. And admittedly it has only happened once in 10+ years of using that airbrush. I did learn to make good and sure the cap assembly is WELL seated Smile [:)]
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Posted by MikeV on Monday, May 24, 2004 10:55 PM
Remeber to not just push the bottle assembly into the siphon-tube and start painting. Always push it in and twist it back and forth to make sure it is in there good and firm.

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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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:14 PM
and make sure the cap's have no clogs in them, and the airhole too
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