Airbrushes

Sand Rat

Sand Rat

New member
Ok, so progress on the Orkspry and a couple of other projects was slowed if not stopped this weekend due to my airbrush not drawing paint. I've replaced pretty much every part I can replace and its still not working. So, I'm in the market to replace my trusty Badger 200 - and since I've got a compressor (also Badger) am looking at getting a 250 or 350 to replace it (I will also entertain Paasche or Iwata's since I can get adapter tips to work with either and my compresser). Just wondering if anyone here has any recommendations -
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
Lloyd,

Iwata HP-B

Iwata Eclipse

Paasche VL

(In that order of preference).

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What's going on with your badger? Cone & needle? Bad air valve?

The compressor should be ok. They last forever and just get a hose with the new gun. Most have a 1/4" NPT at the other end of the hose. A couple of quick couples and you can use more than one gun on a project fairly simply.
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

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Replaced the cone, replaced the needle - it will blow air when its not connected to the bottle, but when hooked up, nothing - am thinking its the air valve - which is not user replaceable - so, once I get the new one, I may send it in to Badger and have them look it over.
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
got a good bleed hole on the bottle? Those get plugged with paint and it won't pull paint up. I generally drill mine out to about 1/8"

Run a brush up the paint chamber to see if you've got a snot ball up there somewhere?
 
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jlamarche

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The Iwata HP-C is exactly the same airbrush that Airhead recommended above (HP-B) except that the C has a larger gravity cup (much more paint than you'd need for minis, but works fine with smaller quantities). If it's in good shape, I'd say £13.50 is a great deal, though who knows what it'll go for.

The nice things about the Iwatas is that they can be completely taken apart, all parts can be replaced, and if you're careful, a good thorough take-apart cleaning essentially returns it to like-new functioning. Only part I've personally ever had to replace is the needle on mine, so I wouldn't be concerned with the age too much. But, given that it's older, you don't want to pay more than perhaps 40% of what a new one would be. Over here in the states, I think the HP-C is at least $150, probably $175 new..
 
Sand Rat

Sand Rat

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airhead said:
got a good bleed hole on the bottle? Those get plugged with paint and it won't pull paint up. I generally drill mine out to about 1/8"

Run a brush up the paint chamber to see if you've got a snot ball up there somewhere?
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Hole is good on the bottle, and I've run a couple of pipe cleaners and brushes up the tube - no luck.
 
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jemstar555

New member
jlamarche said:
The Iwata HP-C is exactly the same airbrush that Airhead recommended above (HP-B) except that the C has a larger gravity cup (much more paint than you'd need for minis, but works fine with smaller quantities). If it's in good shape, I'd say £13.50 is a great deal, though who knows what it'll go for.

The nice things about the Iwatas is that they can be completely taken apart, all parts can be replaced, and if you're careful, a good thorough take-apart cleaning essentially returns it to like-new functioning. Only part I've personally ever had to replace is the needle on mine, so I wouldn't be concerned with the age too much. But, given that it's older, you don't want to pay more than perhaps 40% of what a new one would be. Over here in the states, I think the HP-C is at least $150, probably $175 new..
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Thanks for the info!!

:)
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
jlamarche said:
The Iwata HP-C is exactly the same airbrush that Airhead recommended above (HP-B) except that the C has a larger gravity cup (much more paint than you'd need for minis, but works fine with smaller quantities). If it's in good shape, I'd say £13.50 is a great deal, though who knows what it'll go for.

The nice things about the Iwatas is that they can be completely taken apart, all parts can be replaced, and if you're careful, a good thorough take-apart cleaning essentially returns it to like-new functioning. Only part I've personally ever had to replace is the needle on mine, so I wouldn't be concerned with the age too much. But, given that it's older, you don't want to pay more than perhaps 40% of what a new one would be. Over here in the states, I think the HP-C is at least $150, probably $175 new..
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Almost.

Generally, the HP-B has a 0.2 mm tip/needle set while the HP-C has a 0.3 mm set.

They can be changed out, or ordered with different sets, but that is common.
 
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