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| Subject: | Another Paasche fan |  |
| Date: | Dec 21, 2005 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
>>I'm surprised to hear someone speak so highly of their single action brush.
I have been using my Paasche H for very nearly 30 years. It is a tank for durability and cleans up really quickly. I recently bought a VL for really fine lines, but the intricasies of the needle and the need for complete disassembly to clean it means that I use it very infrequently. The H is my workhorse.
>>If I am trying to paint light, thin lines I am constantly playing with the control valve as paint just stops flowing.
Light lines from almost any brush start to clog up when the paint flow (really the solvent flow in the paint) isn't sufficient to keep the paint from drying, just a little bit, at the nozzle exit. It slowly builds up like calcium on a fawcet and clogs up the paint flow requiring a mechanical cleaning of the nozzle by opening and closing the aperture. If your paint flow conditions don't change, you'll stillhave to do this with a double action brush, you can just do it a bit easier. The real solution is to paint with more thinner if you are doing really fine lines. I find that acrylics are more prone to this than enamels.
HTH
Paul |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Another Paasche fan - Paul Roberts - Dec 21, 2005 |
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