This place is just great for getting questions answered and for learning! OK, my Badger Air Regulator and Water Trap arrived today from Dixie Art. I hooked it up to my old Badger 180 (about 30 years old now) and it appears that the max pressure it will produce is about 10 pounds. Now, I haven’t tapped the joints with teflon yet but I really didn’t sense any leaks. I am wonder if that is enough pressure to work with. My range would be 0 to 10, doesn’t seem like much. Any ideas?
You should be able to work with it, but I would also tape those joints to! You might not feel any leaks, but they might still be there. I would guess you will end up spraying at about 7 pr 8 psi, not much, but it will work for really fine lines and such!
Would you suggest that I spring for a new compressor? From what I have read I can use one from Wal-Mart or Harbor Freight and that a holding tank would be a good idea. What is your thinking on that?
If that gauge is correct 10 psi is too low, especially if you are using a siphon-feed airbrush.
I don’t even go that low with a gravity-feed.
Yeah, you can use those. Make sure the noise isn’t going to bother anybody, they can be rather noisy!
A drop of windex or soapy water on each joint will tell you if you have a leak real fast!
I just want to thank you guys for your help and good ideas. I taped all the connections (to include the threads on the brush) and my pressure went up to a maximum of about 40 pounds! I can control it from there all the way down to 1 or 2 pounds. I am using my new Iwata HP-CS as soon as my Squadron order arrives with my paints and thinner. Thanks for all the great help.
Great ! A problem solved and a response from the happy customer , usually we dont get any feed back form our answers . Thanks for letting us know how the problem got solved jvolker [tup]
[#ditto] Glad it worked out for ya!