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                        Tankmaster7
                        • Member since
                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Puzzled...
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:13 PM
                        Confused [%-)] Anyway, I was practicing with my 155, and when i turned the regulator down to around 8 psi, when i pushed my 155's trigger down, no air would come out! above that it was fine and spraying normally. At around 10 psi, I could get some narrow lines, but with some overspray. should I thin the paint more? please help. Thanks.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:50 PM
                        thin more, but at 8psi no paint coming out is normal. it takes more pressure to "suck" out the paint from the cup/bottle.
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                        MikeV
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: Hayward, CA
                        Posted by MikeV on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 9:51 PM
                        It is hard to get a siphon-feed airbrush to spray very well below 10-15 psi.
                        Why you had no air coming out at 8 psi I don't know, but that sure isn't enough pressure to reliably pick paint up out of the siphon tube.

                        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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                        Tankmaster7
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                          August 2004
                        • From: Nowhere. (Long Island)
                        Posted by Tankmaster7 on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 10:06 PM
                        it's not the AB I figured out. i took it off, and i felt the hose, and at 8 psi no air through there either... is the regulator putting up too much reisistance? the AB is working fine. would 50/50 be good If i want pencil lines?
                        -Tanky Welcome to the United States of America, a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corporation, in partnership with Halliburton. Security for your constitutional rights provided by Blackwater International.
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