Thanks for this instructional video. I've just got my first airbrush (after wanting one for forty years) and this has helped a lot!

Best cleaning video I've ever seen!!!!! awesome

Thank you so much Kirk for sage advice. I was struggling for two days trying to get my air brush to work again. I had put in some liquid that was obviously not suitable. I just followed your instructions and Hey Presto I am a Happy Chappy again. Kind regards from Ralph July, 2018.

I am so glad I found this video! Great directions and tips!

Just got my Badger Patriot 105 and am excited to start using it for scale modeling. Very good instruction, thanks!

Very useful tutorial. Thanks for going into so much detail.

Thank You!!! Great Tips! All I have to say is... been airbrushing for quite a while and did not know 70% of your great suggestions and tips thanks again. (Big Thumbs Up)

Very informative and thorough demonstration. Excellent professional tips. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing! I am new to the art and I found your instruction very helpful.

Nice. I just bought an Iwata Kustom cm. So excited!

Thanks for the extra little tips that youve accumulated from your own experiences. Those are usually the most efficient

Thanks Kirk - that was really helpful. Best wishes

Thanks for the tutorial. My trigger felt a little stiff when pushing it down for air, I had been lubing the trigger stem instead of the air valve hole itself. Good advice.

Great video! Thanks for your help this morning on the phone.

I am a beginner and this helped me a lot. Thank you so much!

Very useful and easy to follow! Thank you!

great video like the way he showed how to do it very well put together now i know how to clean my airbrush right

This was very helpful. Thanks for sharing.

This man is a legend.

Very Good tips, thank you

Just out of curiosity wouldnt taking off the front caps off and bring the needle forward through brush so as not to drag paint that may be stuck on it through the airbrush? I saw that on another site and it makes sense.

Can I ask have you tried the NEO for iwata trn1 the Procon boy ps-275 and ps-290 and the iwata HP-TH high line with pistol trigger at all

Great video! Thanks!

Does finger nail polish remover clean acrylic paints?

pretty long vid, but very thorough and instructive i picked up a few nice tips watching it, thx ;)

If the paint (Acrylic) has built up over a period of time, is it ok to break down the airbrush and soak it in water mixed with a small amount of Ajax dish detergent?

can i use as atone? or is that pretty much what nail polish remover is?

great tips

great! Very helpful!

Can you clean it with hot water and an ultrasonic cleaner?

I use tattoo needles a 3 round fits perfect and easy to come buy

Is it ok to clean your airbrush parts using an ultrasonic jewellery cleaner?

Is using a sonic cleaner ok?

Wow Kirk, these people are ruthless, if they don't like the advise don't do it simple as that. But any way I thought your advise was very helpful, but I like using these small dental brushes they have out now and clipping them off and putting it on and old needle with some teflon tape it works great. Don't listen to them and keep up sharing your advise, if they know so much why are they looking for advise any way. God Bless you for sharing your wisdom.

Instead of Nail polish remover, what is your opinion on a mixture of window cleaner and distilled water? I have heard both good and bad about it, but that is currently what I use to clean all of my Iwata airbrushes. Thanks for the vid by the way! Keep them coming.

What is the tiny thing with the brush on it i cant understand it in the video

Am I right that you don't use regular airbrush cleaner? You mentioned fingernail remover. Only because of the costs or any other reason?

also lube the aux lever and trigger and spring - anywhere that has friction

Thanks for the instructions, but once I got it back together, all I get is backflushing. I thought I was pretty sure of putting it back together correctly. Maybe something in the back end of the brush or trigger area? Any help would be appreciated.

LOVE the Marilyn art in the background. How much? Q-tips & alcohol, old paint brush. Common-sense. Keep-er clean.

Thanks ryanspeed.I just did not have an ultrasonic at the getaway to demo with.Clean quickly, clean often and you wont need me.

What’s with the black and white

I would be concerned about inserting a raked used needle inside the tip of the airbrush. I'm thinking this may damage the inside of it specially since the cotton can slip off the needle quite easily

the best .

I have a similar store of knowledge with #11 X-Acto blades. :)

15:01 if you see paint coming on the back of the chuck mechanism thats because it is flowing pass your Needle Packing Screw. to unscrew that or tighten it just a bit, u need a small flat head screw driver. flash a light into ur brush, u should see where the part is to unscrew it. in both of my Iwata HPC+ brushes theyre amazing brushes however i had to take these out, and use teflon tape around it for a tighter fit so they dont loosen, so you dont see paint in the rear of that chuck mechanism

Hi, I am amateur but i have troubles with paint aspect and thickness after paint spraying. So i honestly ask for help. A reference to a webpage will help. Thank you in advance.

Just be careful when using q-tips in the paint cup because small fibers can lodge themselves in the nozzle and cause you trouble.

Acetone (fingernail polish remover) or lacquer thinner are fine for solvent based paints. For waterbased, just use water.

i had a crappy $20 ebay airbrush, i soaked the tip in alcohol and it melted the tip that you take off with the mini wretch.. i have no idea how clean an airbrush, ive seen so many ways to do it and all have failed me.. i just purchased a Badger Krome and i hope cleaning it with this method will work better for me.

Good advice :-) . (thumbs up)

Love the line "redefine the word sharp"

thanks

You all are so rude. If you have your own ways of cleaning your AB, do it, but don't go and bash this man for the way he cleans it. Please and thank-you.

Gary Simons: Soaking does not do much for an airbrush. Think of it as a dirty floor. Pouring Mr. Clean on it will not make it clean. You have to scrub and mop things up. Detergents do not do much for dry paint. That is why I recommend a solvent like fingernail polish remover. That does a more efficient job of breaking down the dry paint. I am not familiar with AJAX detergent but if it has chlorine in it like the AJAX powder I would not do that. Chlorine is very hard on brass parts. I tried using bleach to clean an airbrush and the results were not to my liking.

hay quá

Why not remove the needle from the front after removing the nozzle. Pulling the needle from the back increases the chances you'll get paint residue stuck somewhere near or at the needle packing seal inside the body.

ohhh maaannnn...

Okay the first comment I left I only got 43 sec into befor I left my comment now in at 1:30 and I know the real problem I'm having you talk slower the a snail in a salt maze. Speed you shit up... this is prob the reason your good at airbrushing. You have more patience then a damn hospital... in closing good video for someone that's got all day.

I've never seen such a mess for cleaning an airbrush: 1) you pulled a lurid needle back through the body of the airbrush (bringing paint into the seal where there is no way to clean it unless you dismantle every single screw of the airbrush) 2) you did not clean the cup or the needle conduct with solvent before starting the above process 3) you stuck the dried out paint into the duse (which you did not remove) with the little tooth brush from the cup and the conduct, compressing it inside as much as you can 4) being this an HP-CS, you removed the nozle and instead of disassembling it completely (which allows to clean out the big rear parte with ease), you start stucking some more dried out paint with the toothbrush and then with a coarse airbrush needle... Something like "HOW DON'T"! Instead you should have: 1) put diluent inside the airbush cup and clean the paint with a clean brush while pouring it out in the jar from above as it become dirty. 2) dry out the cup and disassemble the rear, then the noozle and then, finally, draw out the needle FROM THE FRONT (so you don't stuck dried paint in the rear seal), and only THEN start cleaning out the needle conduct with the toothbrush 3) disassemble the noozle completely (2 parts), put the small duse inside a smal jar with diluent, then clean out the rear noozel part with the toothbrush. 4) clean the now soaked paint form the small duse as "gently and ad delicately" as you can, with a small piece of diluent soaked rolled paper may be, NOT with the needle wich could esily deform and ruin the delicate duse... it seems you are trying to show people how to damage their airbrush, given how much Iwata/Medea charges for spare parts, so you can do some wella paid mantainace just changing as much parts as you can... GOOD JOB!! >___>

Eso no se hace con una escofina de metal....se hace con una lija 150 al agua si es el caso, yo prefiero limpiarla con un trapo con disolvente.

just clean it after you use it...so next time you use it is clean n' ready to work with...

Why not hook up the air line and spray cleaner out, thus cleaning the inside!?

If I did this with my cosmetic airbrush each morning I'd be late for work and wouldn't leave the bathroom until it was clean. By then it would be time for bed again.. Great to know more about my airbrush tho.

no where explains this on youtube. the great people at Coast had to educate me on why this always occured. often times so much paint flowed to the back of the trigger mechansim and got into the air valves and jus ugh. frustration. i had screwed up lines and inaccuracies for a long time because of not knowing that one thing. good luck everyone.

i always wipe front to back

I suspect that secret store of info involves pain.

I'm not a fan of pulling the needle out the back. If you are going to clean the needle guard and nozzle, pull the needle out the front after removing the front sections. Why drag paint through the body of the airbrush. Each to their own I suppose.

21 minute for just a color change (for a professional) There must be another way. year 2014. it should not be difficult.

Listen Up People!!!!! If one needs to be told how to clean there airbrush then one should of never bort an airbrush in the first place. Cleaning airbrushes is not a very hard thing to do. "JUST-CLEAN-The FUCKING-THING"

i see some very bad info on this video and even the reasonable parts are not the way to get the job done efficiantly ,for one never ever use a roughened metal reamer to clean out a nozzle ,this has the potential to wreck an expensve nozzle

wrong spelling: air bush ? see the first logo sign

The beginning music building up to this boring old dude is hilarious, good video though!

Or, after you're done, have a quart jar of lacquer thinner nearly filled. Shoot a color cup's worth of lacquer thinner through the airbrush, disconnect the air hose and put the airbrush into the quart jar. Screw the cover on, it'll be ready the next time you need it. 2 minutes, if you're slow.

not that simple if you lazy like me :)

That airbrush was a total mess !!!

This is horrible advise and so one can only assume that this guy likely earns money from people ordering new parts for their broken airbrushes after following his "advise"...

This was great but man was he a boring fellow. Wished he would have shown the spraying with water on the mirror.

Whats the point of an informative video. ...and you're gonna play games, how you cant tell how you did it. Lame.....

Yes. Horrible. Cleaning the AB with metal objects...very professional... He also pulls the needle out via the back, pulling dirt INTO the AB instead of pushing it out. The needle always travels one way through the AB: in through the back, out via the front. He also pushes the needle too hard against the nozzle, just the light pressure of one finger should be all that's needed. Bad instructional video.