I think this is a deal. Do you?
A friend of mine was rooting through some boxes and came up with an airbrush he used for illustration 15-20 years ago, along with a compressor and a bunch of bottles and fittings.
Score #1 is, what appears to my amateurish eyes, to be a Badger 150, except it doesn't have the set screw on the front of the trigger, and the handle has a rounded end. It's a dual action siphon feed, at any rate. It sure could use a good cleaning, and if the cumulative opinion of the forum Airbrush Xperts agrees that it's worth fixing, I'll go and buy some new needles and regulator/head bits. The bottles and fittings are probably too corroded to clean up, but what do I know? Maybe a good soak in thinner would work wonders?
Score #2 is a compressor that works, it's an Intermatic PC-410. It is VERY similar to the WR Brown HS-410 Speedy Sprayer tested in the FSM Painting & Finishing Scale Models Handbook #10 first published in 1991 (which I cherish), but doesn't have a on/off switch (to be amended by yours truly). I will also replace the braided hose, as this one smells just like you would expect a cloth covered hose that has spent the better part of two decades moldering in a cardboard box in an attic.
So do I spend around $50 CDN fixing this thing or $140 to buy a new Badger 150 with all the tips, cups, bottles and hose fixings? What's the consensus?