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Give this a try:

www.bearair.com

apply for one of their catalogs - it has the parts breakdown for just about every airbrush currently available, the item part number, the price and the manner in which they're assembled. And there's a bunch of other things in the catalog to lust over.

QUOTE: Originally posted by MusicCity This site: http://www.youcanshopsecure.com/index.html used to have all of the Badger instruction manuals available online, but they have changed their site and I can't find them. You might send them an email and ask where they are now. The 150 is basically the same as the 100 as far as the assembly goes. The 150 is siphon feed and the 100 is gravity feed. Getting that link in place is my one complaint about the 100. The best way I've found to do it is to get the link in the slot (I use tweezers) and when it is in place pull the trigger button to the rear to hold it until you can get the needle installed.

I got it back together I think. I placed the trigger in position, slid in the needle to hold that from falling out, then slid the back lever over the needle down into the tube. Then the trick was to get the back lever facing into the slot. I used and old needle to position it in the slot. I then tightened down the needle tube to put tension on the whole contraption. All of you people are great. I wouldn't have been able to figure it out with out you. I think I am still missing a part though. In the parts diagram they show a threaded part to the right side of the needle tube. This threaded part looks to have a slit in it. I assume this is to allow the needle chuck to compress the slit and therfore hold the needle. My brush is missing this threaded potion of the tube. If it was a seperate part I would think that they would have listed it seperatly. There are internal threads in my needle tube that could accept another part if they are sperate. Any Ideas

This site: http://www.youcanshopsecure.com/index.html
used to have all of the Badger instruction manuals available online, but they have changed their site and I can't find them. You might send them an email and ask where they are now.

The 150 is basically the same as the 100 as far as the assembly goes. The 150 is siphon feed and the 100 is gravity feed. Getting that link in place is my one complaint about the 100. The best way I've found to do it is to get the link in the slot (I use tweezers) and when it is in place pull the trigger button to the rear to hold it until you can get the needle installed.

Thanks guys, I will have to get a hold of Badger. I am having a hell of a time with the back lever ang the trigger. I can't get the back lever to stay in the grove and get my finger out of the way to get the trigger in. I must be doing it wrong.

First to the forums! Pull up a keyboard and stay awhile.

Tom had given me the url to the badger 150 manual, but as he says, it's gone!

I would try contacting Badger http://www.badgerairbrush.com/contact.htm and asking nicely. They might ask you for a SASE to be sent to them.

edit Looks like Tom beat me! /edit

oh!!! and welcome to the forum!!!

P.S. if you call BAdger they will send you a new one, it only took about a week to get one to me...

you can get the number at: www.badger-airbrush.com

maybe someone can scan you a copy of their manual.. There used to be a website with all the badger manuals on it but it looks like it doesn't have them anymore. Too bad, it helped me out greatly when I lost my 155 manual...

Good luck to you!!!


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