Airbrushing Powder Paint?

[Jiggin Joe]

I have been using Powder paint for a few years now and just recently started doing more the just a few jigheads at a time like 100's and dipping one at a time is very time consuming. So I would like to start airbrushing them but not sure of what kind of gun I should be using(where to get) and the basics of a good setup. I have a toaster oven i use to cure with and know i can heat the heads in it but would like to know if there is something i can make(buy) to hold say 100 jigs at a time pull out of oven put in a little booth and spray quick enough before the heads cool? any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

JJ

[smalljaw]

I have been using Powder paint for a few years now and just recently started doing more the just a few jigheads at a time like 100's and dipping one at a time is very time consuming. So I would like to start airbrushing them but not sure of what kind of gun I should be using(where to get) and the basics of a good setup. I have a toaster oven i use to cure with and know i can heat the heads in it but would like to know if there is something i can make(buy) to hold say 100 jigs at a time pull out of oven put in a little booth and spray quick enough before the heads cool? any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

JJ

I use a Badger model 260 hobby sandblaster to airbrush powder and it works really well but not for what you want to do. Airbrushing powder is a good way to blend colors evenly when using mutiple colors, the purpose you are looking at won't work because in additon to spraying powder you also spray air which cools the jighead rapidly. You may be able to do 5 or 6 in a single color on some type of rack but you'll never be able to do the amount you are looking at, I think the best way to something like that would be to have some type of large fluid bed that would let you dip a large number at one time. I do understand what you are trying to do but spraying isn't the answer, I've been doing it a long time and I can tell you that doing single colors is done faster in a fluid bed. The only way to do what you're asking is to get an electro static set up but be prepared to invest a few thousand dollars on a set up.

Edited March 5, 2010 by smalljaw

[Jiggin Joe]

I use a Badger model 260 hobby sandblaster to airbrush powder and it works really well but not for what you want to do. Airbrushing powder is a good way to blend colors evenly when using mutiple colors, the purpose you are looking at won't work because in additon to spraying powder you also spray air which cools the jighead rapidly. You may be able to do 5 or 6 in a single color on some type of rack but you'll never be able to do the amount you are looking at, I think the best way to something like that would be to have some type of large fluid bed that would let you dip a large number at one time. I do understand what you are trying to do but spraying isn't the answer, I've been doing it a long time and I can tell you that doing single colors is done faster in a fluid bed. The only way to do what you're asking is to get an electro static set up but be prepared to invest a few thousand dollars on a set up.

Fluid bed it is then thanks for the reply.

JJ