Badger Renegade Velocity upgrade

Tools, Techniques, and Reference Materials Painting and airbrushing
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Disclaimer….I am in no way affiliated with Badger Airbrushes, just trying to help out my friends here.

All,

First and foremost I want to pass on my gratitude to the folks at Badger for the OUTSTANDING service I received. Ken is a member on this forum and you can contact him if you have any questions.

Bottom line is a great product is getting better

I am passing this on to any and all of you that own the Badger Renegade Velocity. Badger has a new brush out called the Krome, and it has several improvements over the Velocity.

If you are like me, I love my Badger but do have a couple of little things that bug me on occasion. Things like pulling the trigger back can result in the rocker lever falling inside the body. These issues have been addressed!!!

Great news is that if you would like to upgrade you parts it is very easy and inexpensive to do so.

The actual process is… Badger will provide you the new design components at cost plus and S & H ($12.00 total for United States / International depends on the country it is going to). You can install the parts yourself.

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From Ken at Badger:

The trigger, which has a new finish material on it designed to aid in the movement of rubbing parts that are not “mating” parts. So the new finish material, which we are calling “glydecoat”, reduces the notability of any friction between the rubbing parts.

The needle tube/rocker lever assembly - the rocker lever also has the glydecoat finish. We have also increased the curvature of the rocker lever’s top tab to ensure the curved facing of the tab is all that rubs against the trigger, and never the top edge of the tab.

Additionally, the pin that holds the rocker lever on to the needle tube has been raised to shorten the trigger stroke for wide open spraying and eliminate the rocker lever’s recessing into the trigger slot if/when the needle is pulled back at the needle chuck (rather than at the trigger).

The inner needle seal bearing has also been changed from Viton to Teflon (PTFE). In ongoing internal product testing we have found a small percentage of special application based instances in which the current inner seal might reduce desired needle movement fluidity. So we are changing the Renegades to the same material, Teflon (PTFE), we successfully use for inner airbrush fluid sealing (around the needle) on the balance of our product line.

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I have emailed them twice about my 150, but they will reply.

I am glad they corrected this problem.

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Me too…they have been very responsive and helpful to me.

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Sorry, I ment to say they NEVER replied.

I wanted to send my 150 in to get checked out and would to contact them first, but they will not answer my emails.

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Give Ken a shout he is the President and I am sure he will help you out.

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I’m a little confused by that statement. The only way I can get the rocker lever to fall inside the body on my Renegade is to pull back the needle tube without touching the trigger. And, the Renegade doesn’t have a cutout handle, so you would have to remove the handle to do that. The rocker is normally held against the trigger by spring tension which keeps it from falling.

Don

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Don,

You are right it is only when the handle is removed that it happens. I sometimes remove the handle and pull back the needle using the chuck as I find it helps me clean in between paints without having to take the needle out to flush completly with cleaner.

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I just got my stuff from Badger and I will have to say that they have taken a great product and made it phenomenal I highly reccomend that if you have a velocity you get the upgrade. The trigger is ultra smooth now.

My sincere thanks to Ken over at Badger

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I haven’t even seen one yet, but then again I haven’t been modeling much and I haven’t spoke to Ken in months.