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| Subject: | Re: Cleaning Airbrush Color cups |  |
| Date: | Dec 31, 2003 |
| From: | Eddy Yu | |
For acrylic paints like those from Tamiya, Windex works fine. You can also use denatured alcohol (from Home Depot or the like). I prefer denatured alcohol myself. Always exercise extreme caution when working with any form of solvents.
To clean the attachment points or small diameter tubes, I buy the interdental tools used to clean braces for teenagers and kids. They come in conical or cylindrical shapes (available at local pharmacies or Wal.Mart) and I attach them to a small wooden dowel (ask for a few of the 6" cotton-tipped applicators from your friendly doctor's office, use a #79 drill bit, and drill about 1.5 cm deep into the wooden dowel and twist the interdental tool into the dowel, one may also use krazt glue if preffered to strengthen the attachment). Dip the interdental tool brush in denatured alcohol and brush gently. Tamiya paints comes off easy with denatured alcohol (works faster than Windex). This works very well in cleaning my Badger air brush, including the color cups and small siphon tubes. One can also use pipe cleaners but beware of lint.
Use the Model Master acrylic cleaner for Model Master acrylics.
I hope this helps. |
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