A review of the GAAHLERI GHAD-68 airbrush spraying Quick Shine
I’ve been asked several times how I spray Quick Shine, so today I broke out my new GAAHLERI GHAD-68 pistol grip airbrush.
First, I want to let everyone know that GAAHLERI asked me to try out there GHAD-68 and see how I like it. I let them know that I would give it a completely honest review. I will not give anything less than an honest review because I believe that my trust to you is more important than anything else, and I will not blow sunshine on something that does not deserve it.
Now with that being said, let’s get into this.
In order to be able to video this and have it to where you can hear it I am using the NEOECO portable compressor. It kind of danced around the table more than I expected, and that’s why sometimes you see me have to readjust it on the table to quiet it down. I have the setting on high which is gauged at exactly 20 pounds (which is what I normally spray Quick Shine) so that works out well.
The Airbrush I’m using today is the GAAHLERI GHAD-68. It is a trigger pistol grip stile airbrush. As soon as I opened the box and felt how it feels in my hand, I knew I wanted to use this for doing my clear coats. It comes with a .38mm and a .5mm needles. It also comes with two different sized cups and a quick connect fitting. It has a good weight to it and feels balanced in my hand.
I filled the cup and did a test shot on a few spoons, one flat black and one Titanium gold. I was instantly impressed with the feel of the gun and how smoothly is sprayed. Usually, I will test a new gun on a few spoons, then on some cardboard to get use to how it feels. With this I skipped the cardboard and jumped right into spraying a kit body. It was just that easy to control and handle. I put the first coat on the roadster body and was going to just let that dry and do a second coat, but since it sprayed so well, I jumped right into the main event. I started spraying the 68 Dodge Dart body that I’ve been working on. This had to come out beautiful, and I was planning on practicing for a while before I did this, hence the large amount of Quick Shine in the shot glass. LOL. I laid down a smooth even coat with no problems at all. The trigger gives a good feel, and it was easy to tell what I was doing, and I was able to adjust easily.
After the first coat was on the Dart, I went back to the spoons and started playing around. I put the first wet coat on the flat black spoon throttling the trigger. For the gold spoon I opened the throttle wide and holy cow did it put down a quick heavy coat, but it was very even and smooth. Now back to the Dart and I gave it two more coats with ease.
After spraying it was time to clean. The GHAD-68 was easy to take down and clean. There are no tools needed to do this which is a huge benefit to me. I was very happy with the take down and cleaning process. That jet is large enough that I can hold it in my hand. I can even see it without my visor. I used my Airbrush cleaner and a few Q-Tips. I pushed the needle out the front of the airbrush, so I didn’t pull the Quick Shine into the airbrush. I then washed all the parts and put everything back together. Last thing I did was shot a few drops of Tamiya thinner through just to wash out any airbrush cleaner that may have been left behind.
My thoughts on the GHAD-68. It is very comfortable in the hand, and its action is smooth and intuitively easy to operate. Cleaning was not a chore because there is no need use tools to take it apart. I like the simple pull and spray for doing this. I will still use a two stage for doing chassis and things that have a lot of contours, because I do want to be able to throttle both air and paint for getting into those small and weird angles of things like chassis. For bodies and large flat surfaces I will be grabbing this one.
Here are some links to what I used in this video.
GAAHLERI airbrush www.gaahleri.c...
Quick Shine
www.walmart.co...
Master Airbrush Cleaner
www.amazon.com...
Q-Tips (A lot of them)
www.amazon.com...
NEOECO cleaning pot and tools
www.amazon.com...
4 окт 2024