I have a Paasche VL???? and the three supplied needles and whatnot for doing heavy, medium and fine work. I can get the medium setup to work after several minutes of blowing air, but it takes a while for it to start suctioning the paint out of the bottle. But once it does pull paint, it works flawlessly. It won't do any fine line work at all.
I have broken it down for complete cleaning several times and I thin the paints to the recommended milk consistency, but no still no joy. With the fine line needle and tips, it won't even shoot water or cleaner- just air. I have two compressors, one an old Intermatic Air clunker and Testor's little blue compressor, but I use old faithful almost exclusively for it's stronger airflow.
Any ideas what is going on with this thing? I really like it otherwise, but I want to get on with some camo schemes and the medium setup shoots too heavy a pattern...