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[mar00cus]

Hey good folks!!! Well I just finished up another day at the flea market. It was ok i guess...my biggest problem is the airbrush guns.

Maybe i'm being lazy by not breaking it down all the way, but some of the inks get stuck or simply just don't work. I'm very upset with my white (worked once)

Have anybody just dunk the whole gun into the cleaner? Or is it best for me to break it all down?

I also wanted to know if the: Titan IV Airpro dual-action airbrush gun is a good product. Anybody have different guns in their business???

Ohh yeah, am I the only one having problems with my ink container? I guess the multi kit only comes with the plastic containers.

Thanks:rolleyes:


Tarvoris

[Maverick Airbrush Tattoos]

is very important. Often, when I'm at a long event, I just take off the end piece and the cone that fits over the needle and I wipe them off with alcohol or tatoff. If you don't clean your equipment properly after events and allow ink to sit in the lines and the gun, you will have problems when you go to use them again. What kind of ink are you using? I use Duratat and know for a fact that the white is too thick. I checked with Andrea (from Tat Int'l) and she said you can dilute it with distilled water. I'm not sure what the ratio is but I know you can find that answer in here or by calling Tat Int'l. Lots of luck to you!
Patty
Maverick Airbrush Tattoo
Rhode Island

[Parrothead]

is very important. Often, when I'm at a long event, I just take off the end piece and the cone that fits over the needle and I wipe them off with alcohol or tatoff. If you don't clean your equipment properly after events and allow ink to sit in the lines and the gun, you will have problems when you go to use them again. What kind of ink are you using? I use Duratat and know for a fact that the white is too thick. I checked with Andrea (from Tat Int'l) and she said you can dilute it with distilled water. I'm not sure what the ratio is but I know you can find that answer in here or by calling Tat Int'l. Lots of luck to you!
Patty
Maverick Airbrush Tattoo
Rhode Island


How can we use water to dilute the white when I have read in multiple post that using water in the center bottle of the pp will cause the ink to gunk up??? I'm confused??

[touchartist]

Ohh yeah, am I the only one having problems with my ink container? I guess the multi kit only comes with the plastic containers.

Tarvoris

What trouble did you have?

Rodney
Dallas TX

[Dinacolada]

I've had really good luck with soaking my guns in a Dr. Bronners organic soap and the guns will often work the next day. I always clean them out with tat off then give them a good soak if I don't feel like breaking them down. I shouldn't admit this, but I've soaked them for days and they sometimes still work.

[sinaz]

if it has been a long day at a multi day event i backflush my guns but i rarely clean them.
It is generally quite dead in the mornings so i spend the next morning carefully dissecting them and cleaning them out

[Parrothead]

Ironically enough Dr. Bronners soap is really good at getting the duratat ink off the skni. I just had recently purchased the soap (for unrelated reasons) and had a gun explosion. I looked like a smurf. Came home, washed with the soap and it all came off with no real need to scrub my skin clean off....
Never though about using it for my guns though.....
Will have to give it a try...

[choochootat]

Lloyd told me a couple of drops of water makes the white better. What about the black? It always seems thin, although I am still on my first big bottle I got back in July I am hoping the next bottle will be better. The other colors work fine, except, why can't we get a real yellow in duratat? The duratat yellow is not yellow, it is a different shade of orange. How does anyone get yellow? Just wondering. The other inks work great and look great, duratat yellow works fine, but it is not yellow. I know it is not just me, my girlfriend complains about it also. I think we could do more outstanding tattoos with duratat if we had more and REAL colors. A real yellow would be nice. The other colors I can make with my power pallette. I soak, break down, and clean my guns between every gig. I get a LOT of ink from the gun with pipe cleaners. I use a toothbrush to clean everything along with dollar general or family dollar window cleaner, works great. I have though gone a week and not cleaned my gun at the next gig, it worked fine but it was definitely dirtier the next week when I cleaned it. Also, I am cleaning my tips and cone about every third or fourth customer, I get spat when I don't. I have played with the air, and that seems not to help. My air is set at 20 compressor and 12 pp. I just do light layers, I think that is causing my tip to get gunky faster, as it comes from the gun it collects at the tip and dries faster since it is so light a spray. Anyone figured how to correct this problem? Am I doing something wrong?

Daryl

Daryl

[worliness]

guns down completely at the end of every event. We soak all the parts except the spring, trigger, and backing in either 91% alcohol or dollar general window cleaner. If we have a show the next day, we clean the guns completely that night. If we don't, we have went a week before cleaning the parts, but they are soaking. We have found that by doing it this way, the guns always work and they are soooooo much easier to clean. We use DuraTat, and we do have to clean off the tips quite a bit., but it is well worth it. We haven't figured out how to store our ink at the end of each show. Pouring it back and forth wastes so much ink, but too much air causes gunk! By the way we have a 7 gun system and we just got a spectrum 2000 to add to our set-up. How does everyone else store their ink?

[JOAT]

If you pour ink back and forth every event you will waste a lot. Get a second set of bottles and lable them cleaning bottles.Back flush into ink then run cleaner through spectrum. If you are using the spectrum weekly then leave it alone and clean the brush only.

[vslg1]

Can you not just cap off the bottles of paint instead of pouring them back into the original paint container..?

[drcorey]

Can you not just cap off the bottles of paint instead of pouring them back into the original paint container..?

yes, I have 2 sets of bottles for my pp.
one is for cleaning and one is for ink.

[etool]

of bottles. One for the system, one for cleaning, and one for when you are doing an event you are going to be really busy at. I say that because, if you have a back up set of bottles with ink already in them, when you are really busy, and OH CRAP, I'm out of of a color, all you have to do is, swap bottles, instead of dragging out your ink, pouring it into the bottle, ect ect. You just pull out color you ran out of, and there you go. Saves a lot of time, and you can get back to shooting.