What is This Called/Does this Exist?

Atomic_Sheep

Young Tutorling
Hi,

I'm after an airbrush that is fed by paint at a pressure not by gravity. I want to be able to airbrush in any orientation. Do such airbrushes exist out of the box? If so, what are they called?
 
Looks like you need to manually swivel the feeding bottle on this one, I don't have that luxury in what I'm trying to do. I was thinking of a system similar to sprayguns where you have hoses that feed paint at a pressure to the airbrush.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Global-Pressure-Paint-Nozzle/dp/B002ABWVRM
Usually people use few drops of paint when airbrushing. I would guess you would waste a lot of color sitting in the device similar to yours just so you spray few drops. I'm from europe so here is my math: half of liter of expensive airbrush color so system like that would push few drops when I need it, and then I am screwed when I need to change color, cause I would need to poor back half of liter of unused color, not to mention bunch of color in that hose which is used for feeding... This are just my thoughts! :D

I bet someone will have nice idea.
 
Also I would assume you can convert that pressurized tank from your link to your airbrush needs. -.-
 
Back in the 80's Binks produced a system for use with an airbrush that had a pressure pot. The pot held many colors, and you could switch between them by turning a dial. The pressure pot would feed the selected color to the airbrush body.... it was called a Chameleon, and was not terribly successful. They do still pop up for sale every once in while.
 
Really rare like Dave said... and very little application for it. Pressure pots (for normal spray guns) are designed for applying a large amount of paint to large areas and are an interim between air and airless systems.
 
The best option for you, depending on what this special project is... is to use an Iwata LPH80 with a 3m PPS spray cup.
 
I guess there is also knock off chinese version out. I wonder...
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Doesn't sound like a knock off, does sound like a bad Google translate, I think they got the whole idea wrong, idk how you would spray chocolate thru itlol. For cake decorating I imagine they only planned for it to spray food coloring, which is a perfectly legit use for an airbrush, but why would you need a quick change system for that? I have a Silent-Aire compressor, and I highly respect them as a company for making the best airbrush compressors you can buy, but compressors and airbrushes are different things all together. I guess it's cheaper than buying 8 BCS brushes, and a Z8 manifold to go with them, not to mention the hoses and fittings. But if this is to save time, I doubt it does that, as you have to prime it, set up all the bottles, and do a slow back flush to get it all out, then run cleaner thru each one. Just get one BCS, and 9 big mouth bottles, and you'll probably save time and money. :thumbsup:
 
Looks like you need to manually swivel the feeding bottle on this one, I don't have that luxury in what I'm trying to do. I was thinking of a system similar to sprayguns where you have hoses that feed paint at a pressure to the airbrush.

Something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Global-Pressure-Paint-Nozzle/dp/B002ABWVRM

I feel like it would really help if we had more info about what you were trying to do, and under what circumstances. A others have said, airbrushes typically deal in much smaller paint volumes than is practical for pressurized hose fed systems. And I'm curious as to what it is about your circumstances makes manually swiveling a side feed cup untenable. That seems like an odd condition, so I'm wondering if perhaps there's been a misunderstanding somewhere?
 
That seems like an odd condition, so I'm wondering if perhaps there's been a misunderstanding somewhere?

Maybe he has one arm. You never know. I seen bunch of life stories on this forum and people crossing obstacles like they are some super heroes. I wouldn't be surprised if that would be the case.
 
Fair point. That is just a blue sky guess though. We don't really know what he needs or why based on the little info given, so I'd want more clarification before I'd be comfortable making recommendations in any direction.
 
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