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Regarding Badger Instant Spray Airbrush Cleaner

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  • Member since
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  • From: Washington
Regarding Badger Instant Spray Airbrush Cleaner
Posted by uproar on Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:35 AM
Does anyone know of any dealers that distribute this stuff in the U.S.? I would love to obtain a few cans of it, but I can only find it on UK websites that do not ship it here. Here is a webpage with the product:

http://www.diy-compressors.com/shop/air-brush-cleaning.htm

Thank you!
Rory
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:25 PM
Isn't that expensive stuff?
You can buy other cleaners a lot cheaper.

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 uproar on Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:33 PM
Well, yes, it is rather expensive, but I've just heard it was a particularly good airbrush cleaner--know of anything comparable, perhaps an aerosol of some kind, that might be cheaper? Thanks!
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Posted by MikeV on Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:59 PM
What kind of paint are you cleaning out of the airbrush?

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 uproar on Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:09 PM
Mostly enamel paints. Occasional acrylics, which I know can be cleaned with water.
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Posted by MusicCity on Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:48 PM
Laquer thinner or mineral spirits will remove enamel easily. MikeV's elixer of 2 parts distilled water, 1 part Windex, 1 part Simple Green works great on acrylics. The airbrush itself provides the aerosol propellant Smile [:)]
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:00 PM
MM by Testors also makes a cleaner in a squirt bottle that is almost guaranteed to get out any acrylics you can put in there!!! and mineral spirits, or laquer thinner if it is stubborn works wonders to get enamel out!!
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by MikeV on Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:27 PM
I agree with Scott.
Nothing cleans enamels better than lacquer thinner and it is cheap.

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 uproar on Friday, February 25, 2005 2:22 AM
I use laquer thinner or mineral spirits to clean my airbrush (it's a single action Paasche)--I squirt thinner through the needle with a pipette as I spray air through it, and often take it apart to clean it....I just thought the aerosol Badger product might be easier, faster and less messy--cleanup is a pain in the butt. I also blow air through the siphon tube in the jar after cleaning it with thinner to make sure it is patent.
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Posted by MusicCity on Friday, February 25, 2005 5:27 AM
Just pour a little thinner in the jar and swirl it around to get the paint out of the jar, then spray it through the airbrush. Repeat with some clean thinner and finish up by blowing some air through the brush. That will clean the bottle, tube, and the brush itself and it only takes a minute or two.

There are several ideas around here for "Catch Cans". Swanny's use of a respirator filter cartridge is probably one of the better ones. I use MikeV's idea of a coffee can, furnace filter, and some PVC tubing. I'll make a sketch of it later if you need one.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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Posted by MA Cooke on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 6:00 AM
Scott, I'd like that sketch.

If you would e-mail it to me......MACooke@fuse.net

How's the weather in Nashville?

Mitch

On Bench: AM P-51B, Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A On Deck: Hasegawa F-14's (too many); Tamiya P-47D; Academy P-47N;
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Posted by MusicCity on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 7:16 AM
QUOTE: Scott, I'd like that sketch.

On the waaaaaaaaay!

QUOTE: How's the weather in Nashville?

Cold and snowing! Looks like March is going to be a fun month the way it's started out.
Scott Craig -- Nashville, TN -- My Website -- My Models Page
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