Awesome. I just woke up and am reading all this... I should've grabbed my coffee first...
2. JacobEb- Thanks! I will give all of those a try. Also that spurt is confusing. If I press air 'on" and "pull" trigger paint comes out, as I pull trigger back
more, less and less paint comes out until no paint comes out at all. As I return the trigger forward, the paint spurts and then starts flowing. Any thoughts as to why the paint shuts off the more I pull the trigger back? Air is flowing the entire time. And -Yes that is my compressor, nice detective work there!
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I was actually going edit my first post and put a warning up after all the replies started flying in, that you should grab a coffee
from the stats I read on the compressor you have, it cuts in when the tank pressure drops to 43psi I could hear the compressor cut in almost as soon as you hit the trigger so you are spraying at 43 at the most, not sufficient for the Createx airbrush colour range. As others have stated, its a thick paint that likes to be sprayed at 50+ There are other paints available that are better to start out with. Etac / Golden High Flow to name a few water based products.
All I can think of with your dilemma above is that the paint is so thick and the psi so low that as you pull the needle back the paint is 'falling' into the channel but there isn't enough air to push it out, and as you bring the trigger forward you are forcing paint out the end of the nozzle.
@DaveG or
@Kim McCann may be able to enlighten more on that.
The symptoms are similar to when I get a blocked nozzle.
Definitely upgrade your compressor, you can work with a generic brush (bit hit and miss with the quality sometimes) but if your compressor isn't up to the job then even a $$$$ brush won't work well. You've had several suggestions for a replacement, all of which I'm sure will do the job with ease.
IF you don't have food colouring in the house then anything that can slightly colour the water will do... maybe you have kids and they have some of those solid paints they use with a wet brush... you only need enough colour to see it when it hits the paper. Maybe next time you are grocery shopping you can grab a small bottle of food colouring, it does come in handy for trouble shooting
Don't listen to them bag my Tamiya stir sticks.... they are great ! I have a converted milk frother and a badger paint mixer, both or which work well until the batteries go flat, or the disc falls off my badger - yes it happened, I had to grab my heavy duty magnets and drag it up the inside of the bottle !
my faithful stir sticks don't go flat, don't fall apart and are easy to clean
for the taller bottles I have a stainless steel chopstick - true
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