Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
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Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
What is the recommended nozzle size for airbrushing enamels etc. on glass, please? I've done a search on the board . Lots of info on media, safety, but nothing I could find on nozzle/tip size. Look forward to some input. Thanks, Jen
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Kevin Midgley
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Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
More important is internal or external mix. Imho you only want external as they are easier to clean simpler mechanisms.
Tip size is determined by the material being sprayed as in will it go through or not. That you'll need to just find out with the materials you are using.
Now if you have an internal mix air brush there could be more places than just the tip to get it jammed up.
Really important is the air filtration system you are using. It is my understanding that the teeny sprayed particles are capable of floating around in the air for an hour or more before settling on your studio surfaces.
Given the various metals that could be part of the enamels safely removing them from the studio is of extreme importance.
Tip size is determined by the material being sprayed as in will it go through or not. That you'll need to just find out with the materials you are using.
Now if you have an internal mix air brush there could be more places than just the tip to get it jammed up.
Really important is the air filtration system you are using. It is my understanding that the teeny sprayed particles are capable of floating around in the air for an hour or more before settling on your studio surfaces.
Given the various metals that could be part of the enamels safely removing them from the studio is of extreme importance.
Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
Check out Rafael Schnepf's website--he sells videos on how to airbrush that would probably be of great assistance here. He sometimes monitors the board, so hopefully he will chime in.
http://www.rschnepf.com
http://www.rschnepf.com
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Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
Jen, it also depends on how much air pressure you use. The higher the air pressure the smaller the nozzle can be.
I've used a paasche h with ferro sunshine enamels and it's worked well. I will get the nozzle size and PSI settings for you in a few days.
I've used a paasche h with ferro sunshine enamels and it's worked well. I will get the nozzle size and PSI settings for you in a few days.
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Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
Thank you, Kevin, Cynthia and Peter.
Kevin, I note your advice and plan to set up the booth before doing any airbrushing. ‘Booth’ is a rather grand name for what will probably be a large sturdy appliance carton with cut-outs for air, filtration media and and an extractor fan. I had been saving a wine fridge carton, but it got recycled when I looked away briefly. (Can I justify the purchase of a second wine fridge?)
Extensive reading on-line and in books indicate that external mix brushes only come in single action models and I want to be able to do the finely-detailed work I like to do using traditional methods. It seems that requires the precision of a double-action internal-mix tool.
Cynthia, one of the first places I looked was Raf’s site. He’s such an inspiration. I just looked again and that section of his site is still under construction.
Peter, I look forward to receiving that information. I have a 7.5 h.p. compressor and a small 'contractors' model so air pressure won't be a problem, as well as moisture and oil traps and pressure regulators
Since posting my query I continued to look on-line and came across an old post from Don on another board. It provides an answer and raises another question:
“The tips are .035 and .050 mm orifice.”
Does that mean the tip and orifice are different sizes?
Don uses gravity feed airbrushes, which I’d already thought would be the direction I’d take as far less air pressure is needed and more control is possible (in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, that is).
Thanks again for the help. It's really appreciated. Jen
Kevin, I note your advice and plan to set up the booth before doing any airbrushing. ‘Booth’ is a rather grand name for what will probably be a large sturdy appliance carton with cut-outs for air, filtration media and and an extractor fan. I had been saving a wine fridge carton, but it got recycled when I looked away briefly. (Can I justify the purchase of a second wine fridge?)
Extensive reading on-line and in books indicate that external mix brushes only come in single action models and I want to be able to do the finely-detailed work I like to do using traditional methods. It seems that requires the precision of a double-action internal-mix tool.
Cynthia, one of the first places I looked was Raf’s site. He’s such an inspiration. I just looked again and that section of his site is still under construction.
Peter, I look forward to receiving that information. I have a 7.5 h.p. compressor and a small 'contractors' model so air pressure won't be a problem, as well as moisture and oil traps and pressure regulators
Since posting my query I continued to look on-line and came across an old post from Don on another board. It provides an answer and raises another question:
“The tips are .035 and .050 mm orifice.”
Does that mean the tip and orifice are different sizes?
Don uses gravity feed airbrushes, which I’d already thought would be the direction I’d take as far less air pressure is needed and more control is possible (in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, that is).
Thanks again for the help. It's really appreciated. Jen
Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
The airbrush I use now is a Iwata Revolution CR. It has a .5 mm orifice. An orifice size is a characteristic of a tip. A tip is an assembly of a couple of threaded parts, one of which better have an orifice.
I think a second wine fridge would be excessive. Unless they're used for keeping reds at storage temp. Having a fridge for white table wines and another for sparkling wines would be hoity toity.
I think a second wine fridge would be excessive. Unless they're used for keeping reds at storage temp. Having a fridge for white table wines and another for sparkling wines would be hoity toity.
Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
He posted carelessly. He meant .35 and .5 mm.Buttercup wrote:clip
Since posting my query I continued to look on-line and came across an old post from Don on another board. It provides an answer and raises another question:
“The tips are .035 and .050 mm orifice.”
Does that mean the tip and orifice are different sizes?
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Re: Airbrush nozzle/tip size for glass enamels, please?
Speak to him about that please, and thank him for clarifying that.
Good point about it having to have an orifice. Nothing worse than a constipated AB.
Further reading reveals the exciting news that tips and orifices, as suspected, are matched as small, medium or large.
As for the second wine fridge....given the sub-tropical climate here it would be for keeping red wines at cellar temp. Stop encouraging me. The existing wine fridge is turned on a day before a celebration so we don’t have even more coolers full of ice tripping up the unwary/unsteady and melting all over the place. The beer coolers are bad enough. I analyzed the relative carbon footprint of several commercial fridges producing bags of frozen water vs. turning on one wine fridge a day before it’s needed.
I don’t drink sparkling wines but what a marketing ploy....‘The Hoity Toity Fizzy Plonk Fridge’, bogan status symbol of the year......
Good point about it having to have an orifice. Nothing worse than a constipated AB.
Further reading reveals the exciting news that tips and orifices, as suspected, are matched as small, medium or large.
As for the second wine fridge....given the sub-tropical climate here it would be for keeping red wines at cellar temp. Stop encouraging me. The existing wine fridge is turned on a day before a celebration so we don’t have even more coolers full of ice tripping up the unwary/unsteady and melting all over the place. The beer coolers are bad enough. I analyzed the relative carbon footprint of several commercial fridges producing bags of frozen water vs. turning on one wine fridge a day before it’s needed.
I don’t drink sparkling wines but what a marketing ploy....‘The Hoity Toity Fizzy Plonk Fridge’, bogan status symbol of the year......