I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of restoring it. So I'm impressed.

After many years of model car painting my Paasche H started to show a erratic spray pattern. Your video showed me the way to fix it. Thanks!

Late to the party but i just bought a new one for a project but in the meantime i watched this. It was like watching an old car restoration. Smooth, nice music, no fluff, well narrated. In other words a perfect video!

Nice freebee, and excellent job bringing it back to work another day.

They're bombproof aren't they and parts are still available - great service. A lovely freebie 👍✌️😊

I really love this series where you restore dirty airbrushes to their former glory , something about saving them from being tossed out is so satisfying.

Outstanding video. Great guide for restoring my 1977 model.

I have an older H model (44 years old), it still works like a champ! O rings is all I needed. I got #3 & #5 needle/air cap sets, also upgraded to S type needles. They take screw on jars. I changed the plastic handle for the chromed brass handle (no longer available). There is a closed red aluminium handle. I originally filled the plastic handle with some #9 bird shot to add some weight as I like a weighty airbrush in my big hands. Very easy to clean. I recommend you stock up on O rings if you use this gun a lot & stock up on needle set screws, you will lose them to the carpet monster! I have 5 airbrushes total & this is still my go to gun. Update: Passche website lists an Anodized red & blue handle (no cutout) & had a black body H model.

I love watching restoration/repair videos, especially when it's of tools/products that I like. I wish you did more of these!

Well done! I have/had several airbrushes over the years Grex, Iwata, Badger, but my workhorse has been my Hs. Plural. I had four at one time, but only now have my original I bought 40 years ago. Back in the late 80s and into the 90s, I built mostly 43rd scale cars for collectors, typically sold through the kit dealers ( a building service). Would build between 30 and 50 a month. Also built the occasional larger scale plastics, and a very lucrative product line customizing 1/18 die-casts (mostly Miatas and PT Cruisers, but also Porsches and Corvettes). I mostly used auto lacquers, Mr Color, and decanted Krylon. To that end, I had the Hs set up for different media and colors: One for clear coats , one for light colors, one for darks and primers, and one for metallics (built a walk-in paint booth which included filtered air and supplied air for a head hood). I replaced the air nozzle o-rings with ones made from Viton as I would swirl the entire front of the airbrush in lacquer reducer for between-color cleaning. All had the chromed metal handles as I like the balance and they look good (looks like those may be OOP). I had not seen that anodized handle before and will be ordering one =) A tip for those cups: epoxy them to a 1" diameter stainless steel washer and they wont tip over as easily (I also have several of these suitably marked for clear, light, dark, and metallics).

Mine is a older Passche H airbrush. It has the same labeling on the top of the airbrush that the one you have has. I bought it at a going out of business sale from a local hobby shop 25-30 years ago. Its still going strong.

VERY VERY IN DEPTH STEP BY STEP IFORMATIVE VIDEO..as i have yet to watch/see ANY OTHER FULL DISASSEMBLY N' CLEANING OF THE Paasche H Airbrush ANYWHERE On the World Wide Web!!!..Thank You Ever Sooo much For Sharing your Great Awesome Video With Us All!!!..Take Care, n' Stay Safe!!

I use mine to spray lacquer on my flutes and jewelry boxes I sell. It's a great little brush!

I have a VL that still seems to work well especially being 40+ years old. Thinking it is close to 45 years old. May need to think about a rebuild but it sprays well enough for what I need painting 3D printed models. Thank you for the video.

Just came into an old H, thanks for all the great info. 👍🏼

I just inherited one. Thanks for the video. It was very helpful.

This was the first "hobby" air bush that I bought way back in the 1970's or 1980's. They are still great for the money, even though I rock Iwata, H & D and Grex internal double action brushes now. Thanks for the video!!!!

Did basic refit on mine two years ago, I was able to get a chrome handle to replace the plastic one, helped the balance TREMENDOUSLY.... lookn good

fantastic video!! Well done !!! i love airbrush restorations !!!!!

Thanks for making this video. I just ordered a new Paasch like this one, nice to know it’s serviceable for years to come.

This was a great video! Very clear with everything I need for maintenance, along with an excellent demonstration of the airbrush function.Especially good because I ordered one only yesterday!😀👍👍

I appreciate the time you put into the video, very helpful. Best to you

Great Tutorial, the best!!

Nice, informative tutorial, thanks!

Excellent content and pacing, congratulations!

Excelent airbrush and vídeo, thank you.

Excellent job 👍

Hey nice video I've just bought one yesterday waiting for it to arrive now I know how to take it to bits lol. Good work.

If you lose the spring you can get another from an old ink pen. It's the same. I used one this way and it still works 35 years later.

I just want to say, I enjoyed your video. You did a great job! I work as an Ecclesiastical Artist and I do a lot of airbrushing and you can't beat the Passshe airbrushes. I use the H most of the time.

That is interesting. I have noticed the packing washer gets is hard to clear of all colour without removing for separate cleaning, which I do now every time. Does it need removing every time, even when the spay is clear and there is no apparent colour. What do you think? The problem of course is that having spent all that time, you may as well have used an internal mix brush. Incidentally: it is worth it finding a photographic processor/shop who can supply fresh from the bin 35mm film canisters. Use a scriber to poke through the lid a plastic tube so that it friction fits, and then poke a small hole for pressure equalisation. After work cleanup is simple. Wipe the canister with a solvent (usually turps or metho) piece of kitchen paper or the like, then flow through the tube from the top. Fill the now clean canister with thinner and put through brush until clean. Then take down of brush is simple. We are talking about - say - fifteen minutes, and not much thinner/turps/metho. I say again and again: 'Laziness is its own reward; the gift that keeps on giving.' OBSERVE SAFETY INDICATIONS. I try and avoid paints I cannot clean with turps or metho. If you can smell it, you're getting too much. Thanks.

Very good !

Watching your videos while painting is like college!

Great content!

A very nice educational and informative video. It is also very well filmed and edited. The background music was perfect and at a very effective volume as to not interfere with the narrative ...............................

Very nice video, super descriptive :)

Great video on basic upgrade/rebuilding of a Model H. Next is do a VL and Thayer and Chandler Model A

Tip. Screw on the trigger button BEFORE installing the spring and nut. Otherwise, great video and great job of showing how to work on an H. BTW one advantage the H has over internal mix is cleaning it after using lacquers or enamels. I have a VL and Vision, but for hard to clean paints, I'll stick with my H.

Thank you for this extremely informative video on the breakdown, maintenance and repair. There is a reason why quality costs a bit, but people do not realize the Paasche H is a huge value. I know the Chinese have cheap airbrushes that go for 20 a pop, but many are terrible from the get go, and almost all of them are not serviceable. Again thank you for the breakdown I need to service mine.

I'm just getting back into building models after being away many years. I hit the subscribe button on your channel, lots of fun to watch, very informative. My question is about airbrushing. When you airbrush, do you use a ventilated spray booth? Or is the amount of paint coming out so small that a booth is not needed? I will be assembling and painting miniatures, mostly.

Muito top valeu a pena conferir. ...

Great video and thanks for the restoration information! Where did you get your airbrush display stand?

Best instruction I've ever seen on the Paasche H series. Thank You. Where did you get the anodized handle?

Great video, and you've convinced me to finally try out the Paasche H that has been sitting in my drawer ever since I received it as a gift about 35 years ago. BTW, what size needle did you buy to finish the restoration?

I have one of these in near perfect condition

Love my H even though I got many others. Where did you get that cool stand at the end?

Good enough for Don Yost, then its almost too good for me! its all he uses and still prob the top model painter anywhere!

How pricey was all that?

Could you share the link were you got the parts?

Do you have a link for the airbrushstand at 14:28?

what are the parts# & name that you used to fix and restore?

Hello my friend can you name the parts that you purchased for the airbrush? I have passche H as well many years no repair done but I know it needs it thank you

Hey where did you order all the parts? I want to restore mine.

U need 100000000000000000000000000000000000000 subs

And all these parts cost three times as much as a new airbrush 😂

WAAAAY too much work - would take half a day just to clean this ol' thing! Parts now probably cost just as much as the airbrush did back in its day!

Cmon dude, that thing is a 100 yrs old and completely useless these days. Literally a €10,- Chinese brush does a better job.