Future Question for First Time Airbrusher

VB Dan wrote:

Hi... What would be the best solvent to use when cleaning my airbrush after using Future?  Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks. Dan

 

Try household amonia and water, in a well-ventilated area.  It's the same product used to strip Future and other acrylic floor waxes from their originally designed destination (your kitchen floor).  I cleaned my Paasche H airbrush with that just last night after shooting some Future.

People not in the hobby are still amazed at how we use this product!

Regards...

Also the blue tinted Windex, which is really nothing more than household ammonia and water, with the blue tint so you can tell what it is. Follow up with distilled water as the ammonia may discolor the airbrush metal.

I found a gallon jug of ammonia based window cleaner at Home depot for $8. You mix it 30 parts water to 1 part concentrate. That's 30 gallons of airbrush cleaner at $0.27 per gallon.

Boy, 30 gallons of airbrush cleaner must take a lot of room in your house...( sorry)

I just use windex, it's cheap and easy to use.  The amonia completely disolves acrylic, works very well.  I did a demonstration for my Dad the other day, painted my hand, let it dry.  Then showed him how soap and water won't take it off (although water works great while it's still wet).  I then spritzed to squeezes of windex on my hand and voila, the paint came right off.

Torio wrote:

Boy, 30 gallons of airbrush cleaner must take a lot of room in your house...( sorry)

LOL I have a whole room devoted to it. Bill's Wonderful World of Windex, only $0.25 per visit, come early and come often! Prepared to get cleaned out!

VB Dan wrote:

What would be the best solvent to use when cleaning my airbrush after using Future?

And if you object to the smell of ammonia, you can use alcohol as well.  When cleaning after airbrushing Future and other acrylics, I usually use alcohol.  If doing a more thorough cleaning, particularly if the paint has had time to dry in the tip, I'll use ammonia which seems to dissolve dried paint a little better than alcohol.

Careful with Future; I airbrushed it over Tamiya olive green and the green looked almost black after drying. Applying Testors flat clar (lacquer) in the final step did not help much and the model was declared wasted. I will never use Future again; maybe it works over white and and light grey finished but I'm not interested in testing it.