Thread: sata jet vs. cambel hausfield

Tweet

you can use very small abit of lube behide the packing nut on the needle . when i painted every day i would take my gun apart and clean it in gun cleaner we back flush them and shops i worked at had gun cleaners .but i still would unbolt them and dip them from time to time reset the packing nut small parts if needed .i never did lube my needle. i have used cheap guns and nice guns i can make paint come out of any of them .like said air psi . thinner temp. and reductsion will come in to play as gun technic

a touch of Vaseline on the needle pulled back is the most i have ever done. not enough to get anywhere.
the savings from using the iwata has more than paid for its self and more. these guns would have made me a lot of money back in the 70's 80's .
but beware the cheap gun. you can create many problems with a cheap gun. yes you can get paint on it but there can be a host of problems later on. solvent pop and shrinkage being the main things.

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

you can use very small abit of lube behide the packing nut on the needle . when i painted every day i would take my gun apart and clean it in gun cleaner we back flush them and shops i worked at had gun cleaners .but i still would unbolt them and dip them from time to time reset the packing nut small parts if needed .i never did lube my needle. i have used cheap guns and nice guns i can make paint come out of any of them .like said air psi . thinner temp. and reductsion will come in to play as gun technic

I used to keep a smal tube of Badger airbrush lube handy for lubing packing and the needles on my guns and it worker great, especially on my primer guns. Primers like PPg K36 and the Standox hi-builds that set up like concrete would gum them up but the lube kept everything flexible...I even coated the threads to the caps with it to keep anything from binding them up