One of the first things I found out is that airbrushes get addicted to being used. It isn't that big a deal once you get used to it,though. I learned that no matter how much solvent I ran through the thing,if I let it sit for more than maybe 2 days,the paint that remained inside ( you never get all of it) would get gummy.
So it just became part of the routine. If I hadn't done any painting for more than a couple of days,it was automatically a teardown,and using a hot solvent like lacquer thinner on the parts. And airbrush isn't really a very complicated machine,so once you've done it a few times,it isn't difficult and only takes a few minutes. The only thing that can really go wrong is if you lose a part,or drop a needle and bend the tip.
Figure it this way-nearly every paint and body shop in South and Central Texas has an airbrush somewhere,and damn near every one of those business places has no one working there that isn't a mexican. So they can't possibly be too complicated,or they wouldn't be getting used.
