Airbrush Cleaner

How to Properly Clean and Maintain Your Airbrush
Cleaning and maintaining your expensive airbrush equipment is essential to the performance and longevity that you’ll see with the airbrush. Failure to clean your airbrush gun properly will mean that it will not operate like it should, and dried paint can build up inside of the gun and on the tip of the gun. For fast cleaning, running some airbrush cleaner through the gun will suffice. But you need to regularly clean your airbrush gun in order to maintain it properly – and this means disassembling the gun and giving it a thorough cleaning.

Badger Air-Opaque Cleaner		Createx Airbrush Cleaner		Createx Airbrush Restorer		EZ Air Airbrush Cleaner
Price: $5		Price: $8		Price: $11 - $14		Price: $6
Brand: Badger		Brand: Createx		Brand: Createx
Badger Air-Opaque Cleaner is economical and easy to work with.		A highly concentrated solution for cleaning airbrushes and screens between color changes.		Dissolves all that hardened dried paint and enamel safely.		EZ Air Airbrush Cleaner is formulated especially for airbrush illustration paints.
Intense Cleaner		Iwata Medea Airbrush Cleaner		Iwata Super Lube		Iwata Table-Top Cleaning Station
Price: $9 - $18		Price: $5 - $8		Price: $8 - $10		Price: $5
		Brand: Iwata		Brand: Iwata		Brand: Iwata
This environmentally safe cleaner unclogs airbrushes of textile paints and heavier acrylics.		More than just an ordinary airbrush cleaner, Medea’s high-strength, general-purpose cleaner is great for cleaning any airbrush or artist tool where acrylics, watercolors, gouache, inks or dyes were used.		A must for any airbrush user, Super Lube can be used on a regular basis to keep your airbrush needle and trigger from sticking or binding.		The Iwata Table-Top Cleaning Station provides a simple, environmentally sound way to clean your airbrush.
Master Airbrush Cleaning Kit
Price: $35
This kit includes everything you need for good maintenance on your airbrushes: 9-piece Micro Needle Set with Handle 5-piece Precision Mini Brush Set 2-piece Precision End Brush Set with Handle ½" Nylon Brush ¼" Nylon Twisted Brush Nylon Exterior Brush Airbrush Pick 2 oz (59 ml) Bottle of Water-based Airbrush Cleaning Solution 0.

Follow these steps for airbrush cleaning and maintenance:

• Clean the outside of the gun. Using a cotton swab that you have soaked in airbrush cleaner, work around the outside of the gun to remove paint that has built up there. You may need to use several swabs to clean this part of the gun.
• Blow a mixture of airbrush cleaner and water through the gun. This will remove much of the dried paint from inside the gun. If any paint gets stuck in the nozzle, scrape it away.
• Disassemble the gun (make sure that this doesn’t void your warranty). This is usually achieved by unscrewing the paint cap, the back end, and the nozzle. You’ll find detailed information on disassembly in the manufacturer’s instructions that shipped with your airbrush gun.
• Fill a cup with airbrush cleaner, and remove the smaller parts, like the nozzle and the cap. Allow these small parts to soak in the cleaner. Run a cotton swab that is soaked with airbrush cleaner over the needle; this will remove debris and paint.
• Soak a small bristle brush with paint solvent to clean the gun’s inner body. Fill a baster with intense airbrush cleaner and use it to flush out the inside of the gun.
• Dry of all of the parts using a clean towel.
• Follow manufacturer’s instructions for reassembly.