Cleaning a used airbrush for cooking/baking use?

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Nessus

Needle-chuck Ninja
How would one go about making an airbrush previously used for paints clean enough inside for it to be repurposed to cooking/baking use?

I figure most of the cup and channel would be easy, but the packing and its immediate area likes to hold onto paint traces in my experience.

Best I can think of would be to do a full tear down and soak-n-scrub in a strong universal solvent, followed by repeated rinsing with potable alcohol.

Anyone else have any ideas? Buying a new dedicated brush would be the ideal, obviously, but time and money prohibit that ATM, so I'm looking to adapt one of my existing brushes.
 
Buy paint remover and use it for your brush. It will clean just anything. MIND! Wear gloves! It's nasty stuff.
Between changing the remover for new portion of it for removing old paint, I'd clean the passages with solvent thinner and interdental brushes or special brushes from AB cleaning kits. In the end you'll have your AB paint passages like new, without any trace of paint.
Before cleaning remove needle packing and clean it outside the brush.
 
Nessus said:
How would one go about making an airbrush previously used for paints clean enough inside for it to be repurposed to cooking/baking use?

I figure most of the cup and channel would be easy, but the packing and its immediate area likes to hold onto paint traces in my experience.

Best I can think of would be to do a full tear down and soak-n-scrub in a strong universal solvent, followed by repeated rinsing with potable alcohol.

Anyone else have any ideas? Buying a new dedicated brush would be the ideal, obviously, but time and money prohibit that ATM, so I'm looking to adapt one of my existing brushes.
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Sounds like you're on the right track. Maybe after the solvent just wash the parts with the same ferver you would wash a cup that you had the same solvent sitting in, probably ending the process with warm water and dish soap, just like dishes. At the end of the day I think your adapted brush would be more likely to be contaminant free than a new one.

Side note, I would bet that 90% of the brasses used in airbrushes would't pass muster if they were actually tested to be approved for food contact (a ton of brassware gets rejected or recalled for lead residue levels) . Gets ignored though since it's not like every household is using one daily and you'd probably have to have a diet of only food passed through your airbrush for years before it ever mattered.
 
I’ve wondered the same thing. I’d think that a reasonable clean brush would put out so little nasty that no one would have a problem. That said, if you’re doing commercial stuff for sale. Remember people love lawyers
 
JackEb said:
you forgot the WD-40 !!

if it doesnt move and should, use WD
if it moves and shouldnt, use duct tape.
All else fails hit it with the wrench and drown your sorrows with the Vodka lol
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If the WD40 and tape does not work it's an electrical problem.
 
I can't believe that Herb hasn't suggested that no good fukitol kit is complete without some grade A 'Shine, that Vodka stuff is only good for a reducer...
 
And, with either alcohol, please wear the proper safety equipment and have adequate ventilation. A suitable party hat, flip-flops & cutoff jeans may not cover it...
 
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