I have a braided blue Badger air hose and a braided red Paasche air hose. Both are 6 ft. The Badger one really shoots the air out compared to the Paasche one. I’m talking about no airbrush attached… just feeling the air come out. This is all across a range of 5 to over 30 psi; the Badger one is shooting a whole lot harder than the Paasche.
I noticed that my Paasche airbrushes that I hook up to the red hose require much higher psi to operate comparably to the Omni 5000 on the Badger hose. Now I know why.
So, I want to get a Badger air hose for the Paasche node on the manifold & quit using the red air hose. That’ll require the Badger adapter to use a Paasche airbrush on a Badger hose. I’m gonna give it a try. It’s only a $3 addition to my next online purchase… no risk really. I just hope the adapter isn’t designed to suppress the airflow down to what the Paasche air hoses do.
That’s strange. I have two Badger hoses, a small vinyl hose and a large braided hose, and I can’t tell any difference when I paint with them. Your Paasche hose must have a really tiny cross section to cause that much reduction in volume (or it may actually have a kink in it somewhere under the braid). I would not expect the adapter to make much of a difference so you should be OK. If it does you might be able to take a small drill bit and open it up some.
The Paasche hoses have a small opening in the fitting on the end is why they are like that. Also, Paasche airbrushes are known to need more air than many other brands for some reason or another.
The Paasche air hose I’m talking about is 10 years old. I wonder if the output has been opened up to shoot stronger since then.
Raising air pressure with the Paasche air hose, it really doesn’t get much stronger from 10 psi to 30 psi, while the Badger one seems wide open with a huge change from 10 to 30.