Squishy
Queen Clown Slayer
So just in case anyone is having a headscratch, bemused moment that it quickly escalating into wanting to take up the mini javelin, I thought I'd mention this.
My beloved cm-c has never been taken apart in the year and a half I've had it, if it aint broke don't fix it. But today trying to paint my PP it didn't want to play, kept blocking, kept feeling like it wanted more pressure, and then had to thicken the paint, so I couldn't get my nice clean hairlines. So I tried the usual, flushed it all out, made sure the nozzle was clean, but no joy. I know it's not the paint, cos it's a new bottle, and it trying through my eclipse it worked fine.
It seemed like there wasn't as much air as there should be, swapping back and forth between the micron and the eclipse it seemed obvious, even taking into account the different nozzle sizes etc. So I checked all the airways which were fine. I tried swapping out my mac valve for a regular quick connect, and that made no difference, then I manually pushed down the plunger in the brush's air valve, and all seemed ok. Then I noticed, that pushing it down using the trigger didn't seem to be moving the plunger much, so I wondered if the spring needed changing. I had a spare so swapped it out, maybe a slight change but nothing significant. when I ran some paint through. so I started to check things off the list agian, and this time I noticed that the little O ring on the airvalve plunger seemed pretty squashed, so replaced that, and boom. One perfectly working micron (the very very slightly bent needle tip which I also discovered doesn't seem to be affecting anything) with my nice clean tiny lines back. Yippee.
If only I'd done that before I started painting Anyway, if you've tried everything that usually works, look at your O rings.
My beloved cm-c has never been taken apart in the year and a half I've had it, if it aint broke don't fix it. But today trying to paint my PP it didn't want to play, kept blocking, kept feeling like it wanted more pressure, and then had to thicken the paint, so I couldn't get my nice clean hairlines. So I tried the usual, flushed it all out, made sure the nozzle was clean, but no joy. I know it's not the paint, cos it's a new bottle, and it trying through my eclipse it worked fine.
It seemed like there wasn't as much air as there should be, swapping back and forth between the micron and the eclipse it seemed obvious, even taking into account the different nozzle sizes etc. So I checked all the airways which were fine. I tried swapping out my mac valve for a regular quick connect, and that made no difference, then I manually pushed down the plunger in the brush's air valve, and all seemed ok. Then I noticed, that pushing it down using the trigger didn't seem to be moving the plunger much, so I wondered if the spring needed changing. I had a spare so swapped it out, maybe a slight change but nothing significant. when I ran some paint through. so I started to check things off the list agian, and this time I noticed that the little O ring on the airvalve plunger seemed pretty squashed, so replaced that, and boom. One perfectly working micron (the very very slightly bent needle tip which I also discovered doesn't seem to be affecting anything) with my nice clean tiny lines back. Yippee.
If only I'd done that before I started painting Anyway, if you've tried everything that usually works, look at your O rings.
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