How-to Rinse a Gravity Feed Airbrush Between Colors
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Rinse your gravity feed airbrush between colors. This prevents excessive paint build up and paint colors mixing with one another.
This method, also known as a color change rinse, is the best thing you can do to prevent future airbrush problems before they have a chance to become problems.
Instructions
- Empty
the color cup's excess paint.
- Add cleaning solution to the color cup.
- Wipe out the cup with paper
towels or cotton swabs.
- Pour more cleaning solution
into the color cup
- Spray cleaner through the airbrush until it sprays clear.
- Note:
Spray into a filter of some kind. This keeps
excessive
overspray out of the air and your lungs. Towels, a paper
towels,
filtering systems, etc. all work.
- Dump
out whatever's left.
- Spray until dry
- Move
on to the next color.
The Guru's Tips
- Use the 'appropriate' cleaning solution for your
paint. It's usually the reducer or paint's base chemical.
- The
best cleaning solution removes your particular paint and doesn't use
ammonia. Ammonia is bad for the airbrush itself.
- Your speed will improve, don't worry if the time you spend here seems long. Your speed will improve the more familiar and habitual these methods become.
- Is the day over? Are you going to lunch or on break?
Do an End of
Session Rinse before you leave.
- If
you are having problems you might need to move on to the
next step after an End of Session Rinse.
If so you could try... a Deep Cleaning.
Make sure you choose the right set of instructions.
Do you have a screw in nozzle? 
or... Do you have a self centering nozzle?
