I use my ultrasonic to clean a ton of my toys/tools. Absolutely love it. Pro tip: I like to fill my ultrasonic with only distilled water. Then I put my parts that need to be cleaned in a glass jar with whatever cleaning solution that particular part needs (i.e. degreaser, dish soap, alcohol, oil, acid…). This way I do not have to fill the entire ultrasonic tub with the solution, and I can do different parts simultaneously. My ultrasonic cleaner is about twice the size of yours, so I can clean a couple of different projects at once. Also makes it easier to reuse the solution. Keep up the great work!
Franco, I noticed you're letting up on the air before closing the paint. That always causes clogging problems and makes it harder to clean. Keep the airbrush button pushed down as you push it forward, that allows the air to continue to flow cleaning the unused paint out before the air actually dries it to the needle. A sonic cleaner is still a good idea for an occasional deep cleaning.
I use straight windex in my ultrasonic. I do the ultrasonic every time I’m done for the day. Also, in between paint colors, I use a windex/water/alcohol/glycerin solution. The glycerin makes a big difference in the lubrication. Seems like my iwata always cleans back to like new, but the masters are very temperamental. New logo definitely cool. Like the part about how the gun actually works. I usually just pull the trigger and hope for the best, but understanding how it works will be good food for thought. Thanks.
Don't know if this would be applicable to air brushes or not??? MANY years ago i.e. back in the 60's one of my duties was spray painting parking meters. I had a devilbiss high quality spray gun we used for epoxy paint. When I was finished painting for the day I would clean the gun with lacquer thinner including removing the nozzle and wiping it down to remove any paint in that area. I would then take apart the head and stow it in the sealed container full of lacquer thinner until the next time it was needed usually about a month. The spray gun always worked flawlessly and I never had to do any service to it over at least a 10 year period. May not be applicable to air brushes, but if you have a cheap one it might be worth a try. I used lacquer thinner as a storage container solvent. You may need to use some other applicable solvent for air brushes depending on the type of paint you are using. Thanks for a nice video that brought back some memories. Ha Ha John
Glad you liked it. That's pretty much how I maintain my large detail paint gun, airbrushes have tiny o-rings that are a pain to replace and easy to damage with solvents...so I got to be conservative.
I use airbrush cleaner jar with thinner and alcohol between colours and once a month I keep the parts overnight inside a tank of alcohol or thinner solution. BTW, I have Iwata, it's expensive but parts are quality which is easy to clean. Highly recommended.
Looking at your parts in the bath, if you would just clean that needle you will have much better success. The rest of the parts look like are doing well in the ultrasonic bath. Hadn't thought of that, great video
Nice video man I just run the alcohol through the gun after I'm done airbrushing then follow it up with a little cleaner and water and disassemble the front and carefully run a cleaning brush through the front of the gun and do the same in the rear takes about 10min a gun that has worked pretty well for me so far I would rather not let it soak overnight and have to go back down to 2nd time to clean it I would rather just be done when I'm done painting but if I get to the point that my method is not working this definitely seems to be a good option and nice logo on the shirt 💪💪💪👊👊👊
I totally get it but, I'm a bit of a scatter brain and leaving the airbrush dirty when I walk away in the evening is not a rare thing for me. This gives me a chance to soak it and get a head start on those heavy cleanings. Cheers, and thanks for watching.
Boy, I look forward to your posts. I value your info as it's done methodically, well explained, and you have no reason to fudge the results. Looking forward to the next installment. It will be good to see if the alcohol bath alone will be good. On this one you did a couple of cleanings with two different liquids. It's possible the first one softened up the gunk for the second one to finish the job. Nice to see if just the alcohol will be enough. >>>Could you please post the link where you got this one? I've found some like it online (look very similar just different brands) but they don't contain the basket. Thnx.
the link for the cleaner is in the description now...thanks for info. I had intended to include a cleaning with simple green but I was out...and no time to run to the store.
In the part where you put the needle in the bath there is clearly dried black paint on it. I started air brushing from seeing your work not nearly as good as you are but I started by watching a ton of videos on how to clean the AB. When your done with it for the day start by shooting some solvent through the brush and using back pressure by holding your finger of the nozzle. also scrub the cup with a qtip. Then open up the nozzle end of the AB and pull the needle out from the nozzle end, if there's paint on the needle you will not put it into the rest of the brush and use pipe cleaners in the nozzle till they come out clean. Then wipe the needle. From what I have read the needles are very easy to bend the tip if you do they will not function right you can sand them straight again. The way you dropped the needle into the bath it seems to have landed on the tip.
You know, I did the same..I watched tons of videos from airbrushing artists and I use all the techniques you mention but, after a few painting sessions the gun starts to act up and a deep cleaning is needed. I'm hoping the ultrasonic cleaner will do that part. thanks for the info and for watching. Cheers.
Well you have to remember that the flash point of a compound is just the temperature where it begins to off gas vapors not the point where it combusts. if that were so imagine what would happen when you rubbed Isopropyl alcohol on your 98.6 degree body...boom.
All you need to do is run a little bit of thinner whatever the paint that you're using calls for after you finished that one color run the thinner through , whether it be water acetone thinner lacquer wash run that in between colors until clean and clear and that will keep your needles clean as far as the fuzzing lines that's because the needle jet as worn down replace your needles, save yourself $50 don't be lazy and strain and thin out your paint
I fisrt use it and fail to remove the paint on my airbrush. Distilled watre and soap at first with half hour, 120F. Still there. add Vinegar and put it again for an other 30 min. fail. I don't know wath to put in that will not damage my very new Creworks 2 liter Ultrasonic. I'm afraid that I will waist my money on the real liquid for Ultrasonics.
