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Ok, all you shoooter's of latex paint here's my question,I have a few Imex ship kits I'll be building and I will need to shoot latex paint(Tamiya) and I never have so I know I cut the paint with water but what is the ratio? and is it true I use glass cleaner to clean the airbrush thanks
for water soluble paints, use isopropyl alcohol to thin, it dries faster and wets much better. You can use glass cleaner to to clean up but I just use iso for that too.
Note that the iso makes the spray flammable so just be aware. Also you need good ventilation with iso. But it is worth the extra hassle.
"more" i'm not sure off, it's just that isopropyl alcohol is flammable to some degree. Add to that being sprayed in a fine mist, well, just take normal precaustions.
Larry, even with alcohol as a thinner, the latex spray is much less of a fire hazard than solvent based paint cut with a solvent based thinner. You could get a little flash fire if you had a flame source right at the tip of the air brush but that's about it. Solvent based paints build up a heavier than air fog if you don't have good ventilation when you're spraying. This can drift quite a ways and still be explosive. A friend of mine lost his garage and half his house because he was spraying in the garage with NO ventilation - dumb thing to do for a lot of reasons. This was in California, where hot water heaters are usually installed in the garage. It was a gas heater and that explosive fog reached the pilot light. He wasn't seriously hurt but, from what he told me, it was quite an explosion.
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