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Post by playtime on Apr 10, 2009 13:22:55 GMT
I have an Iwata Eclipse HP-BS and have a few issues - all self-made I'm sure. First things first - I blocked the damned nozzle by using toilet roll during cleaning. Completely forgot about the lint and now there's a piece of it lodged in the tip. I can see it protruding. So is that a throwaway or is there any way of getting that out? I've tried shifting it with blasts of air through it backwards from another airbrush. Secondly, I think I took the needle out prematurely during cleaning and I've contaminated the needle hole between the trigger and the cup. Any way of getting in there? At the moment, I get a bit of red on the needle everytime I take it out during a clean. I know. I know. What a complete n00b Luckily I have an old badger 200 (or 150 I forget) bottle feed for now but I've really got used to little gravity cups and double action
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Post by The Hooded Claw on Apr 10, 2009 15:56:02 GMT
Have you tried to remove the tip from the nozzle. The small slotted spanner Iwata provide should allow you to do so. Once it is removed a cocktail stick may allow you to get at the lint easier. Just be carefull the tips cost a packet.
As to Paint in the bearing try some of the foaming type airbrush cleaner and wiggling the needle. You'll be surprised how much stuff that will shift.
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Post by playtime on Apr 10, 2009 16:26:44 GMT
Tried a cocktail stick already while being very gentle. The lint is actually partly protruding from the end and it's been rammed in a bit by the needle I think I have the thing dismantled as far as it can go, I'll check the exploded diagrams. I've got the cleaner somewhere I think so I'll try that. If not I'll have to give Paul @ Little Cars a ring for a replacement. About £20 I think. What an idiot
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Post by playtime on Apr 10, 2009 22:05:14 GMT
Looking at the part again, I can see what you mean. Now to find the box it came in and that spanner.
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Post by foxy on Apr 11, 2009 8:00:38 GMT
Hmmm, you seem to have got yourself in a pickle there playtime. Once you have the spanner you can dissemble the whole insides, this should let you get at all the offending parts, plus the cylinder its self from the inside. This airbrush in my view is the best there is and getting it clean is not usually a problem, but can see where you have a big problem. Hope you get sorted .
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Post by playtime on Apr 11, 2009 10:31:11 GMT
Ta. It's the sort of thing you screw up once and remember to never do again
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Post by playtime on Apr 22, 2009 0:09:01 GMT
Eventual outcome was a new nozzle. I even tried burning the fibres out. I also found out where the air leak was on my badger 200 by holding everything but the tip underwater like a leaky tire - the adaptor for the iwata compressor isn't airtight! A little PTFE tape cured that problem and it's a one-off fix as you leave the adaptor on the airbrush. So, 2 airbrushes servicable for the first time
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Post by Lonewolf on Apr 22, 2009 8:21:12 GMT
I just bury mine in paint stripper every now and again. that shifts everything. And I clean them with pipe cleaners and cotton buds. No problems!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2009 10:09:35 GMT
I just bury mine in paint stripper every now and again. that shifts everything. And I clean them with pipe cleaners and cotton buds. No problems! Definitely not recommended.
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Post by playtime on Apr 22, 2009 10:56:03 GMT
Paint stripper? The nasty toxic stuff that smells like petrol that you can't put down your drains? Yuk.
Paint stripper vs rubber seals? I use pipe cleaners too but I'm now wary of them - they may have been the cause of the blockage rather than the loo paper but cotton buds? Hell no.
I have a bottle of isopropyl alcohol which does most of the cleaning. Anything left is shifted with a tiny amount of airbrush cleaner including the paint that goes the wrong way cos I took the needle out when it was still a bit dirty (thanks for the wiggling tip, Hooded Claw).
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Post by Lonewolf on Apr 22, 2009 11:24:20 GMT
Works for me mate. I've never had a problem with it and I've been doing it to the same 2 airbrushes for well over 10 years.
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Post by playtime on Apr 22, 2009 12:00:58 GMT
Hey, with my luck I'd be buying an airbrush a week
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2009 12:08:54 GMT
Works for me mate. I've never had a problem with it and I've been doing it to the same 2 airbrushes for well over 10 years. I'm surprised it's not a pile of melted goo, airbrushes are delicate instruments and should be treated as such, by following a recognised cleaning system after each use. I still wouldn't recommend letting it sit in anything corrosive and would strongly advise against it.
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Post by Fatty on Apr 22, 2009 13:46:45 GMT
Works for me mate. I've never had a problem with it and I've been doing it to the same 2 airbrushes for well over 10 years. I'm surprised it's not a pile of melted goo, airbrushes are delicate instruments and should be treated as such, by following a recognised cleaning system after each use. I still wouldn't recommend letting it sit in anything corrosive and would strongly advise against it. I will have to agree with Nick on this one, I found even getting gun cleaner briefly on the rubber seals makes them swell up in size. Every time i use my airbrush it gets stripped and cleaned, and then after that it gets dryed.
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Post by Lonewolf on Apr 23, 2009 7:33:55 GMT
Badgers must be different then, mine are all metal except the needle bearing and I take that out.
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