I bought a Badger 155 Anthem a while back and am experiencing a problem with it. It puts a LOT of paint. I have painted with numerous airbrushes in the past and have never had this much volume in the past. I have regulated it down and it is still throwing the paint out there. Sheesh, you would think that I was painting with a Binks paint gun the way it goes through paint.
I am using thinned MM enamel. The problem kinda went away when I went to straight paint and no thinner. Is this normal, am I crazy, or do I have a problem?
It sounds like you need to learn trigger control.
The Anthem was designed as a T-shirt airbrush and that is why it puts out so much paint if the trigger is pulled back very far.
Put your air pressure around 15-20 psi, push the trigger down all the way and pull back on the trigger slowly until paint just starts coming out.
Keep practicing with trigger control and you will see better results.
Thanks Mike,
Thats kinda what I thought my problem was. I have been using an Aztec for the last couple of years and thought that I would change up and see what a more expensive brush was capable of. Can I change needles in this to a fine needle?
It seems like you’re moving the trigger too far back. For my 155, even at 50 psi, it puts out a small amount of paint considering I only move the trigger about 3/4 back at almost all times, cept when I wanna spray a whole model in 1 go [:D]
It will also put out alot of paint if the needle and “floating” tip are not perfectly aligned. If there is any paint residue left in the tip from a previous session, it will not “seal” or mate properly with the opeining and alow more paint to escape than you would like. Hope this helps.
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PS - Van Buskirk, it’s good to see you posting again.