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I always work with One Shot - Acrylic is a brand new area for me - I know eventually there is going to be a build up of acrylic residue in the gun, how do you get it out?
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I have been a fulltime airbrush artist for 4 years. If you are using airbrush ready createx or auga flow, i use a secret formula. Formula 409 cleaner and water. Trust me it works. And if you let them get real gumed up, wd-40 to losen everything up then 409. This one should cost you. If you want your acrylics to flow well. Add a few drops of GOO GONE to a 3oz bottle, its great. You can find goo gone at wal-mart in the cleaner section. Scott
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Mike, I also am an airbrush artist as you probably know. I have the cheapest alternative to clean-up known in the airbrush acrylic world!! Windshield washer fluid (1 Gal= $1+ -). I pour out enough of the fluid in my truck resevoir to allow me to pour about 8 oz. of ammonia into the gallon jug. Shake it up a bit and it'll clean acrylic like nobody's business. It is not safe to use as a clean out fluid, such as cleaning out between colors, but it's great for cleaning up all your equipment when you're finished with the job or when you get a pesky clog that just won't come on out. I"ve been using this formula for at least 15 years. Try it, you'll like it. Scott, I really wonder what the Goo Gone is doing to the stability of the paint. Have you used this stuff long enough and used it on fabric long enough to know if it's not affecting the washability? Seems everything like that I ever tried had some affect. It breaks down the binders in the paint so it's not as strong as before. If it doesn't that's great!! You just gave an old man a new trick!! Thanks. See ya, R.T.
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If you are using Createx paints or other waterbased acrylics (sometimes I pick up a 44 cent bottle from WalMart) you can clean them up with denatured alcohol which is found at WalMart in the paint thinner isles.
I usually keep a glass airbrush bottle half-full with it, and when I change colors I just "plug-in" the glass bottle and spray it out a bit.
After the color is cleaned out, I put the color cup back in and go to the next color.
To clean out my airbrush, I remove the tip, handle and needle, then use a denatured alcohol soaked pipe cleaner and run it through the airbrush. Then I get the tip of the pipe cleaner soaked real well with the Denatured Alcohol and clean out the cone in the tip.
The denatured alcohol zaps the waterbased paints instantly.
If the paint is totally dried up, the denatured alcohol will still dissolve it within a couple seconds.
I also use the denatured alcohol to remove dried up paint from the tip while I am in the middle of painting. I live in a dry climate so that's unavoidable for me while using waterborn paints. I think today's humidity actually was 0%.. =)
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I've been usin' an airbrush for a coupla decades, and I never went to all that trouble... boy is my face red.. Then again, 1Shot seems quite forgiving in the clean-up dept. LE
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