What do you soakyour Aztek tips in

[deepcore]

Hi

 

I just started airbrushing enamels. I know what to use to flush acrylics out of my airbrush...what to soak my (Aztek) airbrush tips in if it gets clogged.

 

Is it the same for enamels. If you use mineral spirits to flush testors (for example) out of your 'brush...is it also what you soak a tip in if it gets clogged?

Will it 'melt' the clog? Or is something better (that won't melt my tip).

 

Thanks

[LSP_Kevin]

Hi

 

I just started airbrushing enamels. I know what to use to flush acrylics out of my airbrush...what to soak my (Aztek) airbrush tips in if it gets clogged.

 

Is it the same for enamels. If you use mineral spirits to flush testors (for example) out of your 'brush...is it also what you soak a tip in if it gets clogged?

Will it 'melt' the clog? Or is something better (that won't melt my tip).

 

Thanks

 

I soak my tips in lacquer thinner after every session. I've left them in it for days with no effect other than a slight swelling of the plastic (this subsides about 15 or 20 minutes after removal). You can also disassemble the tips to really clean them, which I do on a regular basis - especially after I've sprayed floor polish. If I were you, I'd consider using lacquer thinner to flush the brush too; it's a much more effective cleaner than mineral spirits (with certain brands of enamel, it's a much more effective thinner for painting as well).

 

Those Aztec tips are impervious to just about any solvent I know of, though I wouldn't leave one sitting in a jar of MEK...

 

Kev

[deepcore]

Thanks.

 

I didn't know you could (or should) disassemble Aztek tips.

How do you disassemble them?

Are the needles a lot more prone to being broken in the process than say a Badger's?

[LSP_Kevin]

Thanks.

 

I didn't know you could (or should) disassemble Aztek tips.

How do you disassemble them?

Are the needles a lot more prone to being broken in the process than say a Badger's?

 

Probably the best thing to do now is go and read the following thread over on ARC:

 

Aztek Cleaning and Maintenance Tips

 

Lots of useful info.

 

Kev

[Pfuf]

I did soak the tips in lacquer thinner I put tmen there afther some time of use leave the for the night nex day little brush clean hem blow them dry.

 

I have used them very often great is that you can see the diffrend color the size of the needle.

 

I now use a Olompos HP-100B steelairbrush so now only screw of the nose tip and a soft brush from time to time.

 

groeten johan

[bigern007]

Lacquer thinners for soaking,and cleanig after any type of finishing materials.

 

Always works for my Aztec.......Ernie

[deepcore]

I soak my tips in lacquer thinner after every session. I've left them in it for days with no effect other than a slight swelling of the plastic (this subsides about 15 or 20 minutes after removal). You can also disassemble the tips to really clean them, which I do on a regular basis - especially after I've sprayed floor polish. If I were you, I'd consider using lacquer thinner to flush the brush too; it's a much more effective cleaner than mineral spirits (with certain brands of enamel, it's a much more effective thinner for painting as well).

 

Those Aztec tips are impervious to just about any solvent I know of, though I wouldn't leave one sitting in a jar of MEK...

 

Kev

 

 

 

Thanks.

Tried disassembling an old tip and it's not that hard.

 

One question: How do you push the needle assembly back in the tip without using too much force?

I'm afraid I'd poke the needle right thru the plastic tip (and make a VERY high flow nozzle).

 

Thanks