Paasche Millennium Cleaning Question

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I don't use a Paasche Millennium, but the schematic looks similar to my T&C, except yours is a siphon feed. Generally, between coats of a different color, all you need to do is:

1. Dump remaining paint, if any.
2. Wipe out and rinse cup with appropriate solvent until reasonably clean
3. Blow solvent through brush at ~15 psi or greater, backflushing occasionally. If it came with a larger bottle as well as a cup, putting a small amount of solvent in that makes this easier.
4. Repeat 3. with clean solvent.

This whole process takes less than five minutes once you get the routine down. It works well for a given painting session provided you paint lighter colors first. If you need to paint a lighter color after a dark color (or a clear coat) you might want to clean more thoroughly per instructions that came with the brush. (If it didn't, I think you can get them for free from the Badgerairbrush.com site.

 Hope this helps.

Paasche also has the cleaning instructions for that specific brush on their website.

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I have a paache H-1, VL-1 and a badger 200. with those, I still want one more, a Badger 150G.

On all Three I have learned to strip them down and thoughly clean between colors. I use lacquer thinner on the enamals and a mix of rubbing alcohol and denatured alcohol(50/50), Q-tips and pipe cleaners On the paache H,leave I leave the air head alone, but frequenly check the O-ring for cracking. The VL and the Badger, pull the needles and disassemble the air heads on both this also means the paint cone, be very very careful here.  When all clean, reassemble.  It's tetiouse, but the results keep other paint colors from suddenly appearing on one of my white helicopters ( It happened ). 

Oh ya.  for all of you if you don't already know. lacquer thinner is an alcohol base and a degreaser( also a paint striper ) when using the material, when ( not if )it gets on your skin, it will degrease it,and leave it dry! I mean really DRY.  when painting enamals and cleaning I use latex gloves.  cheapest I found is at a warehouse store. hard ware or med supply place is also good.. Also keeps you hands clean and paint free.  just some advise

Good modeling

Air 5 is out.

It is a bit of a mis-statement to say that lacquer thinner is alcohol based. Lacquer thinner contains a variety of organic solvents, some of which are alcohols. The actual composition can vary rather distressingly from brand to brand and location to location.

Almost all organic solvents are lipophilic—meaning oil and fat loving. That makes them good defatting agents, which is why they dry your skin. But drying out your skin and possible dermatitis therefrom are relatively minor considerations compared to other toxicty issues for some of these solvents. The latter are the best reason to wear gloves and use adequate ventilation when handling solvents.

Also be aware that latex and nitrile gloves are not barriers to all solvents.