Soaking airbrush parts in solvent helps to clean them.
Paasche airbrush company offers a wide range of airbrushes for beginners and professionals. These airbrushes work by forcing air from a compressor through the airbrush gun, where it mixes with paint and sprays onto the canvas. Once you have finished using your airbrush you must clean it right away. If you don't, paint will dry in the airbrush and be very hard -- if not impossible -- to remove.
Instructions
1. Fill the paint reservoir with a small amount of solvent and spray it empty into a paper towel. This will flush most of the paint out.
2. Disconnect the airbrush from the air supply.
3. Disassemble the airbrush in the following order: Remove the paint reservoir if a detachable one is used; remove the rear handle; remove the needle chuck; remove the needle; remove the head assembly from the front of the airbrush; and remove the tip.
4. Set the tip, head assembly and needle in a jar of solvent to soak while you clean the other parts.
5. Wipe out the paint reservoir with a paper towel soaked with solvent.
6. Run several pipe cleaners soaked with solvent into the paint reservoir input and through the front of the airbrush. Keep doing this until the channel from the paint reservoir to the tip is wiped completely clean. If needed, use Q-Tips soaked with solvent to scrub difficult areas.
7. Retrieve the parts that are soaking in the solvent and wipe them clean. Use pipe cleaners and Q-Tips if needed.
8. Reassemble the airbrush, putting the parts back on in the opposite order as you took them off.
