Rinse your siphon 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
- Pull the paint bottle out of the color stem
- Push the paint bottle filled with the appropriate cleaning solution into the color stem.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pull out the paint bottle of cleaning solution
- Spray until dry
- Move on to the next color
Do you need to clean the paint bottle too? You might not actually have to clean that bottle. Just a thought.
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 this is your first fix. It’s like rebooting a computer. But you might need to move on to the next step. 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?
