DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT put Lacquer based paint inside plastic ‘jars.’ something I learned the hard way.[:p] ONLY USE GLASS OR METAL
Sounds like experiance talking to me.
I never thought about it to tell you the truth…
but all my jars are glass and all my cups are metal.
Sounds like good advice to me though
you’re bold with the lacquer already when you just got the airbrush [tup] It’s great that ya don’t have to pay 3x’s too much to get an Iwata ripoff jar to replace your molten one
Actually, there are some plastic jars that can handle lacquer. You just happen to have one that doesn’t. [:D]
Mike
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] - Sorry, couldn’t resist.
FYI, Tamiya bottles will screw right into Badger caps.
wow! just checked it on my Badger, cool! gotta cut the siphon a little if I ever decided to do it… Aztek crews into MM, Badger to Tamiya… too bad there isn’t a standard… so everything screws into everything…
really music city?
thats AWESOME…
i gotta start savin hard 4 my anthem…
xmas is coming up soon tho 
While you are at it, bend the tube a little. I heated mine slightly with a heat gun and bent it so that it aims right at the bottom front edge of the bottle. Since I usually spray at a downward angle, that where all the paint runs. I have about 1mm between the end of the tube and the bottle and can suck up all but a few drops of paint.
anyone know how many mm the MM paints are? I wouild love to be able to spray directly from them the was I could do with my aztek… I know Badger sells 25 and 35mm caps so hopefully MM is 25., If I run by the store today I will get a 25mm Badger cap and try it all the same, can’t hurt!
Also, tamiya 1/3in screws into the aztek big. at least on the a220
mike, it was the default jar that came with the kit i bought, to be specific the one with the trigger pad. and I just checked and it was ‘enamal based acrylic’ so I will avoid using that in the plastic jar from now on.
Tom,
Micro-Mark sells them here: http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Product&ID=60936
They are a bit expensive though. [:0]
Mike
does anyone know where I can get a instruction manual for my badger 155? i didn’t get one. that leads to our next lesson: LOOK IN THE BOX BEFORE YOU BUY!!
yeah… they have the manual for download at www.youcanshopsecure.com. The trail of the 155 eventually leads to here: http://www.newstyleservice.com/155airbrush/cover.html
I had the same problem but with Model Master Enamel paints and thinner…the plastic jar started to melt and crack…a very nasty experience…now I have 2 beautifully melted and unusable plastic jars…….[|(]
Though I shoot waterbased acrylic 99% of the time, I do have rare occasion to use lacquers. I have rigged up a bunch of 35mm film canisters as siphon feed paint jars and they seem impervious to lacquers and lacquer thinner. I think the plastic used (polyethylene?) is the same stuff as is used on the “twist-and-pry” caps on cans of lacquer thinner sold at most hardware stores.
35mm film canisters are the handiest thing in the world next to duct tape. Funny thing about them is that many, many years ago they were aluminum and had screw-on caps that even had a vinyl water seal in them. I worked in a camera store as a kid and had boxes of them. Wish I had them back now.
what about wd 40?
they were ALUMINUM!?!? as far as I can remember, they were plastic. everything is plastic now.
believe $6.95 is worth it… I might even buy two! while I have mostly been using the metal cups lately being able to unscrew a bottle and put the cap back on would be nice!! especially since I still have a fair share of “pre-thinned” paints available…
yup… although I never used them when they were still aluminum I remember my mom and dad had them.,… I didnt get into photgraphy until the mid 80’s and by then they were all plastic… except maybe for AGFA… I remember one of them was metal still…
I think you’re right, I think Agfa was the last holdout. Theirs were real thin aluminum, almost like heavy foil, but the Kodak cans were great. No telling what those things would be worth these days.