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Badger 155 Anthem

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  • Member since
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  • From: Camp Couch Colorado
Badger 155 Anthem
Posted by armydogdoc on Friday, February 18, 2005 8:31 AM
Hey gang,

I bought a Badger 155 Anthem a while back and am experiencing a problem with it. It puts a LOT of paint. I have painted with numerous airbrushes in the past and have never had this much volume in the past. I have regulated it down and it is still throwing the paint out there. Sheesh, you would think that I was painting with a Binks paint gun the way it goes through paint.

I am using thinned MM enamel. The problem kinda went away when I went to straight paint and no thinner. Is this normal, am I crazy, or do I have a problem?

Thanks guys!
Ron "One weekend a month my$1***$2quot;
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Friday, February 18, 2005 9:02 AM
It sounds like you need to learn trigger control.
The Anthem was designed as a T-shirt airbrush and that is why it puts out so much paint if the trigger is pulled back very far.
Put your air pressure around 15-20 psi, push the trigger down all the way and pull back on the trigger slowly until paint just starts coming out.
Keep practicing with trigger control and you will see better results.

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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  • From: Camp Couch Colorado
Posted by armydogdoc on Friday, February 18, 2005 9:12 AM
Thanks Mike,
Thats kinda what I thought my problem was. I have been using an Aztec for the last couple of years and thought that I would change up and see what a more expensive brush was capable of. Can I change needles in this to a fine needle?
Ron "One weekend a month my$1***$2quot;
  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Friday, February 18, 2005 9:25 AM
Ron,

The Anthem is a single needle/tip airbrush so the one it comes with is it.
You could buy a 3155 needle and put in it possibly, though I am not sure.

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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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 18, 2005 5:45 PM
It seems like you're moving the trigger too far back. For my 155, even at 50 psi, it puts out a small amount of paint considering I only move the trigger about 3/4 back at almost all times, cept when I wanna spray a whole model in 1 go Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 10:29 AM
Good to know, I just got one
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 11:23 AM
It will also put out alot of paint if the needle and "floating" tip are not perfectly aligned. If there is any paint residue left in the tip from a previous session, it will not "seal" or mate properly with the opeining and alow more paint to escape than you would like. Hope this helps.

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PS - Van Buskirk, it's good to see you posting again.
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  • From: USA
Posted by MusicCity on Friday, July 22, 2005 12:33 PM
Actually, except for the last two, these posts are from back in February. Don't know where Mike has been lately.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 22, 2005 2:02 PM
Bad on me Scott, thanks for keeping me straight as usual!

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