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Joined: 25/11/2018 Posts: 1,284 Points: 3,878 Location: Southeast UK
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Hello all,
Here's a useful tip to save you pounds on airbrush cleaner aerosols. Some of the more experienced modellers may already know about this tip but for those that don't, I hope that it helps?
A lot of airbrush cleaning fluids sold under well known brand names are quite expensive and often only seem to work most effectively when trying to clean away paints sold by the same company, i.e. - Vallejo airbrush cleaner is specifically designed to clean Vallejo paints and works well? They do sometimes work on similar types of paints as in whether they are acrylic or enamel based but I've found over the years that not many will clean just about any type of paint from any manufacturer and in one formula.
One that I have found to do that is 'Badger' airbrush cleaner, it's brilliant stuff …. but …. it's expensive and it doesn't take long to use up a whole aerosol can as it's only sold in 200ml cans! However, there is a much cheaper alternative that comes in a 500ml can (that's 2.5 times as much!) at less than half the cost of the Badger product and which I believe is pretty much the same product with the same chemical make-up and even has the same smell! That product is used in the automotive industry for cleaning carburettors and works equally as well as the purpose made airbrush cleaner from Badger. I've been using carb cleaner for some time now and found that it has had no ill effects on any of my airbrushes and doesn't attack the airbrush seals as some powerful solvents can. I've also been told that automotive brake cleaner works equally well but I've never tried it so can't vouch for it's efficiency.
If you check out the price and volume differences in the two links below, you will see how much money can be saved. The carb cleaner I've indicated in the link is exactly the same brand as the one that I use, so I know that it works!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i...id=p2060353.m1438.l2649
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i...id=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Quite a saving for what is essentially the same product! Hope that helps and saves you a lot of money! 
Kev  Per Ardua Ad Astra
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Joined: 10/05/2010 Posts: 2,608 Points: 7,519 Location: Lincolnshire
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Great tip, will have to give this a try
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Nice Tip Kev, as an Iwata fan I generally use there Medea Airbrush Cleaner and it works very well for me with acrylic paints. The paint I have found over the yaers thats the worst for blockages and splurts is Lifecolour. Great when first opened but after a short time of storage you get the films of paint floating in the paint that if you dont remove them before adding to your airbrush just build up behind the spray tip and cause more problems. I regulary now use a mini sieve with opened Lifecolour paints to remove the floater films now. Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Rank: Master Groups: Registered
Joined: 25/11/2018 Posts: 1,284 Points: 3,878 Location: Southeast UK
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Thanks for looking in and your comments Graham and Andy, much appreciated and I hope that the tip is useful?
I'm not a fan of Lifecolor paints either Andy, their colours are usually pretty accurate but I don't like the consistency of their paint, it just seems a bit too gelatinous to me, even when thineed and as you say it does have that strange skin forming problem?
Kev Per Ardua Ad Astra
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