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Originally Posted by soundman98
the worst part of airbrushing is cleanup. it'll take 30 minutes to mix, fill, and spray a project the size of that model car, and 4 hours to clean everything up nice enough so you can use the gun again..
it's why harbor freight sells $20 HVLP auto spray guns. guy's will spray their real car and toss the gun in the end. cheaper and easier.
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Your doing it wrong then.
If your painting a car, how are you not using SATA RPS Cups or 3M PPS liners? Once you take the cup out of the equation clean up is just pouring some thinner in the opening while spraying and wiping the needle.
As for the airbrush... acrylics will always suck to clean but lacquer and enamel paints clean like a dream. Dump the paint, wipe the cup, fill the cup with thinner, spray a few times, cover the nozzle and spray (to back-purge the AB) and then spray some more thinner until what comes out is clean (usually 1-2 full cups.) With lacquer this is so efficient that you rarely need to disassemble the AB until you get to topcoating.
Both with disassembly of the gun or AB are under 2min tops for cleaning!
