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ElectricPaladin
03-17-2014, 09:56 PM
Any advice for getting an airbrush un-jammed? I soaked mine - disassembled - overnight in airbrush cleaner solution, then rinsed it off and put it back together... and still nothing. The air goes through just fine, when I tried to run water through the device, nothing sprayed out.

DarkLink
03-18-2014, 12:53 AM
Probably dried paint clogging the nozzle. You can use the needle to scrape out the inside of the nozzle, but that might bend the needle. They make a dedicated tool for it, though.

Deadlift
03-18-2014, 03:37 AM
Try a fine pin to scrape any paint that maybe jammed in the nozzle. There has to be a blockage somewhere. As "complicated" as some airbrushes look the principle is very basic. Air forces paint out. No paint then it's blocked, or a possible damaged nozzle. When you can get your hands on a sonic cleaner, worth it's wait in gold when cleaning. You can also get airbrush nozzle cleaning kits which consist of a brush and a specific cleaning tool.
Again well worth getting.

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ElectricPaladin
03-18-2014, 07:22 AM
But how do you explain the fact that air is getting out? If the nozzle were blocked, wouldn't nothing be getting out at all?

Psychosplodge
03-18-2014, 07:44 AM
Air molecules are smaller than liquid molecules?

ElectricPaladin
03-18-2014, 07:48 AM
Air molecules are smaller than liquid molecules?

Not categorically, no, but paint molecules might be smaller than air molecules...

I don't think that the airbrush is that jammed. I mean, if the jam is bad enough that air molecules are getting through, but not theoretically larger paint molecules, I think that an undetectable amount of air would be getting out, not a pretty strong blast whenever I depress the trigger.

Psychosplodge
03-18-2014, 07:50 AM
not just making it seem more high pressure?

ElectricPaladin
03-18-2014, 07:57 AM
not just making it seem more high pressure?

Hmmm... maybe.

Deadlift
03-18-2014, 07:57 AM
But how do you explain the fact that air is getting out? If the nozzle were blocked, wouldn't nothing be getting out at all?

It happens to me frequently, air flow seems to be fine but no paint. Is your airbrush gravity fed or bottle fed ?

ElectricPaladin
03-18-2014, 08:02 AM
It happens to me frequently, air flow seems to be fine but no paint. Is your airbrush gravity fed or bottle fed ?

Bottle fed.

Deadlift
03-18-2014, 08:05 AM
Have you checked the feed pipe on the bottle, could be a blockage there. After that check where the paint is fed into the airbrush.

ElectricPaladin
03-18-2014, 12:44 PM
What if the air hole in the top of the paint pot was blocked? Couldn't that cause a vacuum to develop very quickly, making it impossible for the paint/water to escape the pot?

DarkLink
03-18-2014, 01:21 PM
Yes.