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| Subject: | Re: Iwata HP-CS help needed |  |
| Date: | Jan 18, 2005 |
| From: | Eric Scurlock | |
| No offence taken, far from it. I much appreciate you taking the time to help. I have quite a bit of experience with my old beat-up Paasche H model. I’ve done quite a bit of edge work with the Paasche on German equipment to feather-edge masked camo with nice results. The Paasche is second hand, pretty beat-up, and just doesn’t have the ability to spray a fine enough line for what I wanted to do so I thought I’d break-out the Iwata I got for Christmas. I was using Humbrol paint. It’s an old tin that I bought four years or so ago. I thinned it about 40% with Testors airbrush thinner to a thin milky consistence. The Iwata had never seen paint before this first trial and was fresh out of the box. There was no build-up on the needle tip after use and the brush cleaned up nicely with just a couple of fills of turpentine. The air pressure is unregulated. The compressor is a Badger 180-11 which pushes about 28 PSI. The trigger moves back and forth easily enough, it’s just that the difference between no flow and a lot of flow was so fine that I was getting cramps trying to control it. As you may have gathered from my frustrated post I’m quite clueless as to how to get this dual action contraption to behave as advertised. I thought the dual action brush would make getting better results easier but that is not yet the case. Any advice would be much appreciated. |
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