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I think alcohol (denatured) would be better than soapy water for the final wipe down... other than that, yea, sounds like itll work

Yea... and they shipped it right back free too Now i know what a cheap airbrush feels like... if you wanna call it that... more like an airbrush replica

Im off work tomorrow... ill turn over everything in the shop

Im not that lucky... i have to find the thing before i can send it back... ive looked all over that corner without a trace... i even threw a few other things at that wall to see which way they bounce... that didn't help

Well i didnt know Iwata has a 5 year warranty on all their airbrushes... it doesnt cover "abuse", but they said they'd replace it anyway.... now i just have to find the rest of it so i can send it back

Hey, this looks pretty sweet.... and it comes with multiple needle/nozzle sizes... says .25, .38 and .66... i like the idea of having different sized needles Side note, i contacted Iwata today via email.. just an honest message/complaint.. didnt ask for anything from them.. but would be nice if they offered

Cost isnt really a limitation, more of a delay.... i just bought a boat last month, so its kinda difficult to justify another purchase with the wife this soon....... especially seeing as how the airbrush i just destroyed was a gift from her

Might have to... the one i got dont work at all... wont even spray water... sending it back Guess i can get back to making soft plastics for a while

I was going to, but it said shipping would take over a month

This isnt even what i ordered, but whatever, ill try it I just turned it on out of the box and it has the same problem as my old one, constantly spraying air Oh well.. guess id rather have a $16 piece of junk than a $100+ piece of junk Maybe itll get me by until i can blow another $100

That is really all i need... something that will throw paint on a lure when im finished building it..... not something im going to have to take apart, scrub and put back together 4 times after building a lure I dont have an artistic bone in my body.. the closest to detail i get is spraying scales over tule

This contraption really gave me a bad first impression of airbrushing... ive been thinking to myself that y'all must just be gluttons for punishment to continue putting yourselves through the frustration and hassle of constantly tinkering with and scrubbing this metal device instead of actually building lures

I tried that in the Neo... i was using water tho, not sure if thats why it wouldnt work, but i had to thin it down so far that it rippled when i sprayed it and just dripped right off the lure body

You do that in the bottles?.. or every time you spray?

Says it has 3 different needle/nozzle sizes.. biggest being .5mm... would be a real bonus if i could run my cheap craft paint thru it, i have a whole drawer full of that stuff, the Neo clogged instantly when i tried to use it

I just ordered the cheapest, no name airbrush i could find online... if it don't work, im only out 16 bucks... better than being out over 100 like the last one

I dont even know what size needle mine is.... so the bigger the needle, the less clogging?... that makes sense

Good input Also, my bad, i went back and edited the op... mine is (was) a Neo, not an Eclipse The valve body?... i assume thats the part that screws into the air hose?... i never figured out how to break that part down... well, its broken down now, but not in the traditional sense Thinking ill call Iwata tomorrow, tell them what happened, see if they'll replace it (if i can find all the parts)..... just don't seem right to me that a brand new tool should function so poorly... even if the user is functioning the same

I guess a better way to word the question: In terms of user friendliness, is there a difference between brands?... even sacrificing performance... ive used rattle cans to paint my lures for the past, ive lost count of how many years... just wanted to take the next step, not trying to paint the next Picasso

Thanks for the encouragement... kinda Patients is a funny thing, it doesnt always cross over from one task to another the way you'd think it would... i spent all morning designing and building a jointed wake bait... didn't get it on the first try, or the second, or even the third... but i did get it, and it turned out pretty good, all it needed was a finish that reflected the amount of work i put into it.... then, well, you know the rest of the story Ill own up to any user error on my part, as im sure there is one or two.. but my goodness, does it really need to be so meticulous to operate a paint spraying device??

I no longer own an airbrush I got an Iwata Neo last Christmas and barely used it because i spent 10x as much time cleaning it as i did painting with it.... i finally got over my frustrations and pulled it out again... i painted one bait with it, then it went to h*ll again... i spent almost 2 hours breaking it down and cleaning it over and over again today until my patients ran out and i threw it through the wall The problems i was having: - Air comes out the nozzle constantly, sometimes if i wiggled the trigger just right it would stop, other times it would not stop - sometimes paint would not spray at all, air comes out, no paint... but if i rinse the bowl out, it would spray water or cleaner just fine - when it did actually spray paint, no two trigger pulls were consistent... i would spray against the wall to make sure i had an even stream, then spray a lure only to get splatters or sputters... or one pull paint would come out, the next nothing As far as cleaning goes, i wasnt cleaning after every use, only when it started acting up (basically every other use).... ive broken it down as far as i possibly can, soaked every component and part in windex (or airbrush cleaner) and used the little wire tools in the cleaning kit to scrub every nook and cranny i could reach It can not be this difficult to put paint on a lure.... is there a painting tool on the market that isn't so ridiculously finicky???