Badger 360 thoughts.

Got it yesterday in the mail :) First impressions are good - nice solid build, chromed brass it looks like. Nice weight to it too. Airhose is nice and flexible as well. I've replaced my Aztek4709 with the Badger and I must say that i've been missing a lot. Lately I have been spraying auto cellulose paints (properly thinned btw) and the Aztek just cannot handle it. I've taken it apart cleaned and lubed it yet it still clogs in minutes. Then it would spit blobs :( Secondly spraying clear lacquer through it was impossible. The lacquer would seep through the nozzle threads no matter how tight it was screwed onto the body. I'd put the Aztek on the stand and in minutes i'd have a pool of lacquer on the table. Odd. The Badger? Well theres not much I can say except I preped the paint, loaded it, sprayed it and it landed on the model exactly how it should. Not a speck stuck to the needle at all. I see now also how wrong Testors are when they say it is easy to clean the Azteks. First the nozzles are the problem as compared to the Badger there are nooks and granies where paint is bound to get stuck on its way through. The plunger pushed through by the trigger seems to have no seal i.e. it just passes through the hole inside. The gravity cup is a bit small on the 360 I will admit BUT this is fixed quite nicely with a small (cant remember the name now) plastic conical thing you use to pour stuff into a small hole. I bent the tube with heat and it pushes into the gravity cup tight - now I have a much larger cup!