I am about to airbrush some future onto a car to seal some mask I have down so that the next color doesn’t blled through the edges. I am using a Iwata Eclipse-CS, which is gravity feed and the normal method for cleaning this brush is to run the kind of thinner used in the color that you just sprayed through until it comes out clear. My question is how to clean out the future? What do you thin it with?
I’ve never thinned Future, and I use Windex to clean up. Got some on your hands? Simple soap and water does the trick!
I bought a cheap plastic clone of the venerable Badger 350 airbrush for $10 and that’s the AB I use for Future coats. If it ever clogs up or causes me grief, I consider it disposable, and I’ll just buy another.
I also use it as an air tool when blowing the chuff out of my computer case!
I use isopropyl alcohol to clean my airbrush after using Future. Standard store bought rubbing alcohol works like a dream and costs less than buying thinner. I usually get 80-90% and that does the trick just fine.
As far as thinning it, I use water but alcohol or any glass cleaner like Windex has worked fine.
FSM March 2004 has a great article on Future and it’s uses by Matt Swan
I haven’t tried using isopropyl alcohol with Future, only Windex and it works well for me.
Thin with 90% isopropyl, clean with Windex.
If you read the label on Future it tells you that ammonia is best for removal. Windex (The BLUE Type) contains ammonia & works best as a clean up for Futue. Being an acrylic, alcohol will also work, but I stick with the Windex.
Regards, Rick
Phew, I’m not the only one who uses an airbrush to blow out computers!
I use windex to clean my airbrush after Future. I hate cleaning Future and that is why I brush it when possible. It brushes very well.
I too brush Future. I also hate cleaning it out of an airbrush and it gives me several problems:
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Orange peeling when I do one heavy coat
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it turns my models into sand paper when I do multiple light coats.
I have gotten better results airbrushing at the lowest pressure I can and doing two semi heavy coats, but I find it easier to just brush the stuff. I clean my brushes and airbrush with Windex.
I thought this stuff was supposed to be some sort of wonder product that did it all plus laundry!!! I was using it to seal some mask on for a second color, is this not the ideal product for such an application and if not what is??? Oh yeah, and I seem to be only able to find 70% isoproply, am I not looking in the right place?
90% isopropyl is often kept separate from the more common 70% in drug stores. You may have to ask for it.
I bought some 91% at Wal-Mart the other night.