plated with chrome and many of these home made solutions
BACK FLUSHING YOUR AIRBRUSH:
will damage that plating and brass. Never use ammonia
based products like Windex to clean your airbrush, never
This is one way to quickly clean your airbrush either at the
soak your airbrush in any cleaning solution for long periods
end of the day or between color changes. This technique
of time. Check with what the airbrush manufacture and the
works for both gravity and siphon feed airbrushes equally
paint manufacture to see what they recommend you use to
as well. With cleaning solution in your color cup (gravity feed
clean your airbrush equipment. If you must use a glass type
airbrushes) or in a bottle (siphon feed airbrushes) place a
cleaner use one that contains no ammonia like Glass Plus.
paper towel over the end of your airbrush and hold it fairly
Both Badger and Iwata make airbrush cleaning solutions
tightly against the front of your airbrush, push down on the
that work great for most water based paints.
trigger and pull back as if applying paint. You will notice air
bubbling in the color cup or bottle if done correctly. This back
flushes your airbrush cleaning the inside passages, nozzle
and needle. One further step would be to take the needle out
to check that it is clean before putting the airbrush away.
This technique works great in between color changes also
preventing the old color you just used from contaminating
the new color you are about to use.
For solvent based paints like House of Kolor you can use
reducer or lacquer thinner to clean your airbrushes, do not
soak them in either for any length of time.
TAKING YOUR AIRBRUSH APART:
On www.howtoairbrush.com I’ve post videos on taking apart
and putting back together again correctly the most popular
brands, models of airbrushes; I will continue to post more of
these videos as time allows. If you tear your airbrushes com-
pletely apart to clean them you should find those videos help-
ful. Weather you take your airbrush completely apart each
time you clean it or not is really personal preference with
most airbrush artist. Personally I do not take my airbrushes
completely apart after every use but clean them the way I’m
about to show you. I use my airbrush just about everyday and
once a month or so I will take them completely apart and
give everything a good cleaning,
If you do decide taking your airbrush apart completely is the
way you want to go make sure to do so over a towel not over On gravity feed airbrushes using a small artist paint brush
the sink. There is nothing worse than losing a part down the or q-tip to clean the color cup will speed the cleaning pro-
drain and it happens all the time to folks. Take care to notice cess up substantially.
how each piece comes off and don’t lose any parts.
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