How to Fix a Clogged Airbrush

Video Transcript

"Welcome, my name is Lars Erik Robinson and my company is LarsEr Arts and All Around Art-tainment is my slogan, that means I can do anything that has to do with art, and anything with entertainment. I've been doing a lot of things with airbrush guns for my illustrations and today I thought I'd talk about a very important part that becomes frustrating if you've been experimenting with airbrush guns. If you have a clogged airbrush gun and you notice that it's splattering or if it's not coming out on you for example you push in, and you could tell it's still going, like that, see or it splatters, like it was doing right there, one of the important things, the first thing you can do is actually take the needle and pull it out and clean it off. So go ahead and wipe it off by pulling it away, pushing it into the towel and pulling it off. Make sure there's no paint stuck on there. Then try that. That's the first step, so see if that solves the problem. See that still didn't solve the problem, it's still going. So then the second step you would do is actually go ahead and take the paint out because maybe the paint's too thick. Put a cleaner in there, they sell a lot of different kind of cleaners. If you're just doing a water based, you could almost even just do water too if you feel like you just want to do water. But I have a special cleaner here that actually comes with the paint that I bought. Go ahead and spray it out by pushing down and pulling out the best you can. The quickest way is actually just go ahead and take your needle back and if you notice here you just pull it out again, put it into your cleaning bucket, and pull back. And be careful when you push back not to push too hard, to break your tip. Now you could feel that it's going a lot better, it's a lot easier now to pull back, it's not sticking on you, so then we can add the paint in there again, and we see if it works better. And if this does not work for you, the last resort is to actually just go ahead and take it all apart and let it soak and clean it all up. You can even take - and when you're taking it all apart you take one of these pipe cleaners, and you take this apart, and you actually push it all the way through and clog it like that with some of the cleaner. Okay. Well I hope that helps you guys understand a little bit better how to clean the airbrush gun. Thank you for joining me."