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Posted: 3/1/2008 12:25:30 PM EDT
| How durable is it? I have a large air compressor that I use for a framing nailer. Is it too big for a air brush for Duracoat? Does break free harm the Duracoat finish? |
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Pretty damn durable. Wait for the full cure. Your compressor will have to have a couple of things (you may already have...). First, you will have to regulate the pressure somewhere between 15 and 60 psi, depending on what, exactly, you are spraying with. We use several different sprayers (from cheap gravity fed HVLP gun from Harbor Freight for the DuraFil, to Anest Iwata HVLP gun for most of the work, to Iwata airbrushes for the camo applications). Most importantly, the air has to be DRY. Let me say that again. DRY. No moisture and no oil. Do what you have to do to get it ALL out of the line going to your gun. So far, I haven't found any of the cleaning stuff that hurts it. Maybe something exotic, but standard stuff seems to have no effect on it. Woody Certified DuraCoat Finisher 
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What do you mean by this? I have a compressor from Harbor Freight that requires oil lubrication. Are you talking about getting the air out of the hose so there is nothing but paint coming out? |
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The air being supplied by the compressor to your paint gun/airbrush needs to be free of oil or moisture when it enters the paint gun/airbush. I run a regulated filter at each station in my compressor system, along with small in-line filters after the regulators and before the gun again. If you introduce oil or water into your paint through the air system, you will either get poor finish appearance or poor adhesion. Woody |
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The DuraCoat airbrush kit (the cheap one) is a Central Pneumatic (i.e. Harbor Freight cheapie). Their Paasche airbrushes are, obviously, by Paasche (respectable name, I just didn't like the ones we had). I'm not sure who makes their air gun (I used it during our Certification, but didn't think to check the brand). Here's what I use..... Anest-Iwata LPH80 HVLP mini gravity-fed spray gun for single coats, or for overall coverage on camo jobs. Anest-Iwata Eclipse HP-CS gravity-fed airbrushes for small parts, or for detail colors in camo jobs. Central Pneumatic gravity-fed HVLP spray gun for the Dura-Fil stuff. The DuraCoat instructions recommend a 0.6 tip on your HVLP guns (not that many out there). So, now that I've given you waaaaaay more information than you probably want... No. You don't have to use the DuraCoat sprayers. Woody |
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