Badger 360 help.

btw, I love the 360 so far!! I'm just waiting for a regulator I ordered to show up so I get finished on my '68 StraßeAdder (a '68 RoadRunner w/ Viper Engine and rear end)

Jeff,

Yes that is the MAC valve I was talking about.

Mike

you mean that MAC valve thing?

Let me add this so you won't think I am picking on you Jeff.
You can push down the trigger slightly and get less air than you can pushing it all the way down, but it is not worth even trying because it is impossible to replicate that same amount of air each time you do it.
It is hard enough to master the trigger travel for paint flow without trying to complicate it even more by trying to control the air and that is what I meant by my earlier posts.
What is funny about this subject is that Iwata claims you can control the air pressure with the trigger alone and yet their new "High-Line" airbrush is supposed to control the air pressure to the tip, so they are contradicting themselves.
That's marketing for you.

Mike

heh....

One more time guys, a dual-action airbrush is NOT designed to allow control of the airflow. It is either on or off. The trigger's rear movement is all that is controllable regardless of what anyone tells you.
If someone tells you that you can control both the air and the paint then they do not know what they are talking about and should not be giving such bad advice.

Mike

exactly

I am able to control the air on my omni 4000 by trigger and regulator. It's very hard to do though, a twich and its full blast.

you probubly are, i just need to save $190 for the 100 and a hose. I just set tension to highest which imho gives me the most control. preshading is childs play with that.

1337,

I wish I was as good as you with the 100 and could do that.

Mike

I dont know why but when i use a badger 100, I always seem to be able to use the trigger both ways, up and down and forward/back. i get such fine lines like that, it's not funny. too bad i don't have a badger 100 yet

Like Mike said, the triggers on DA brushes shouldn't be used to limit the air. Push it all the way down and then control the paint volume. Use your regulator to limit the airflow. If you try and regulate both air and paint with the trigger it's going to be hard to get consistant results with it because both the paint and air are going to be constantly changing.

I was hoping to get a little bleed area between trickle and flood (kind of like my training wheel Aztek 430). Oh well, guess I'll have to break down and get a regulator. :)

Thanks Mike!

That is how double-action airbrushes are.
They do not allow control of the air pressure, you do that with a regulator.

Mike