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Mr. Magoo
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I wrote yesterday that I wouldn't post any more about my paint woes until I got some better paint. I lied.
This morning I did some testing with what I have, which includes Badger's own brand and what fried my bacon was that I couldn't even get Badger paint thru a badger brush. You'd think . . . .Yeah I know there are all kinds of reasons why this might be so BUT I did a controlled test using Spectra-Tex, Jacquard and Auto Air and then my own concoction made up of FolkArt hobbyist acrylic thinned with Pledge acrylic floor polish (actually works pretty good). The photo below shows the general results of all four paints where I wrote some words (in script so that paint flow not interrupted) and how I start with a fine line that then breaks up, expands, spiders or goes splat. Where the big, fat lines exist is where I went back over the areas that skipped a it wouldn't hold a fine line any more. In writing the word AIRBRUSH the tip usually clogged by the letter B. That, my friends, happens within 5 seconds or less.
I keep the air on continuously with only an exception or two.
What I don't understand is how tip dry can happen so fast, and not only that, but it happens with ALL my paints and both brushes. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later but always within about 15 seconds. As for pressures, that doesn't seem to much matter, either. If I thin it down to the point where it sprays longer, then I get extensive spidering.
All this runs contrary to everything I've read and what you all have told me, which is why I'm so perplexed. I have on order Wicked and Etac paint, so perhaps only time will tell after I receive them. What is so perplexing is how I get the same basic result regardless of changes in variables or paint. Is there something fundamentally wrong here?
This morning I did some testing with what I have, which includes Badger's own brand and what fried my bacon was that I couldn't even get Badger paint thru a badger brush. You'd think . . . .Yeah I know there are all kinds of reasons why this might be so BUT I did a controlled test using Spectra-Tex, Jacquard and Auto Air and then my own concoction made up of FolkArt hobbyist acrylic thinned with Pledge acrylic floor polish (actually works pretty good). The photo below shows the general results of all four paints where I wrote some words (in script so that paint flow not interrupted) and how I start with a fine line that then breaks up, expands, spiders or goes splat. Where the big, fat lines exist is where I went back over the areas that skipped a it wouldn't hold a fine line any more. In writing the word AIRBRUSH the tip usually clogged by the letter B. That, my friends, happens within 5 seconds or less.
I keep the air on continuously with only an exception or two.
What I don't understand is how tip dry can happen so fast, and not only that, but it happens with ALL my paints and both brushes. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later but always within about 15 seconds. As for pressures, that doesn't seem to much matter, either. If I thin it down to the point where it sprays longer, then I get extensive spidering.
All this runs contrary to everything I've read and what you all have told me, which is why I'm so perplexed. I have on order Wicked and Etac paint, so perhaps only time will tell after I receive them. What is so perplexing is how I get the same basic result regardless of changes in variables or paint. Is there something fundamentally wrong here?