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  • Member since
    October 2004
  • From: Mesa, AZ
Airbrush Lube?
Posted by jschlechty on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 1:03 PM

Where is the best place to buy the Iwata Medea Lube for their airbushes?  The little tube that came with mine is about gone, and I've only foud one place that has it, and they wanted more for the shipping than the cost of the lube . . . .

OR - is there an alternative (read cheaper) type of lube that works as well?  I have the Iwata HP-CS airbrush, and want to keep it in top working order.

Thanks,]

John Schlechty

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    May 2005
  • From: Left forever
Posted by Bgrigg on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:02 PM

There is a cheaper alternative.

Go to your local drug store and get a bottle of Glycerin. You might have to ask for it, you might not. It's 99.9% the same stuff, only without the 0.01% blue dye Medea adds. That's what I'm buying the moment I run out of mine, which will be sometime in the next decade.

So long folks!

  • Member since
    January 2006
  • From: Baton Rouge, Snake Central
Posted by PatlaborUnit1 on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:58 PM

They still sell Glycerin? I havent seen that stuff in years!

David

 

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  • Member since
    October 2004
  • From: Mesa, AZ
Posted by jschlechty on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:56 PM

Wow - if that's all it is we may still have some from when we made our own "Swimmer's Ear" stuff a few summers ago.  Have to check in the back of the medicine cabinet. . . .

Thanks for the advice!

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    June 2006
  • From: Calgary
Posted by MaxPower on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:08 AM
I just use a little Vasaline. Would that be a problem?
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 8:50 PM

 MaxPower wrote:
I just use a little Vasaline. Would that be a problem?

Yes and no. It can contaminate the paint.

 

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
  • Member since
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  • From: Hayward, CA
Posted by MikeV on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 8:51 PM
 Bgrigg wrote:

It's 99.9% the same stuff, only without the 0.01% blue dye Medea adds. That's what I'm buying the moment I run out of mine, which will be sometime in the next decade.

I don't think that is true my friend.  

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. " Charles Spurgeon
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