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    Is your airbrush a single or double action? With a single, you get air and paint at the same time. Using a double-action airbrush, you must press down and pull back. Your airbrush tip could be clogged. Acrylics can dry very fast in some conditions. Clean the airbrush to be sure it is not clogged, and then try spraying water or solvent through it. The difference between a single and double-action airbrush is the paint delivery mechanism. A single-action airbrush delivers paint with only the press of a button. A double-action airbrush only lets air pass through when you press down on the trigger. It begins to let paint through when you slide the trigger back and allows more through as you pull the trigger back further. This allows you to adjust the size of the paint stream and the amount of paint passing through your brush as you paint. The ability to do this is the primary advantage of a double-action airbrush over a single-action airbrush.
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    Mr. Bones also made for my grandson.
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    A large batch of Halloween items in progress.
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    I made thes for my grandson a few years ago .
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    Handmade Wooden Halloween Ghost Cutouts - Set of 6 Silly Spooks 724117934 36s Shotcut.mp4
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    I gave the larger Wen filter. It works well for me, and I would greatly miss the timer and remote control. As for making the air filter with vacuum filters, good quality, cleanable filters are expensive. If I had to buy everything, it could cost as much as $150 to build one of these. One of the issues I have with these ideas is that they don't usually come back a year later and tell you how it worked for them.
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    I'll grab a futon every chance I get. Mostly they are bolt together and the metal bits are easy to find. Hitting a a metal fastener can destroy a saw blade.
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    That is only about half of what I have. If I counted right, I have ten airbrushes and maybe 30 paint bottles. Craft acrylics can work quite well if adequately thinned. I have also sprayed house paint successfully. The red, green, and yellow car bodies in the photo are craft paint, the cheapest I could get at Walmart. The blue, pink, and lavender colors are house paint. Oops, paint from Home Depot. One of the advantages of using an airbrush is the ability to get custom colors. Paint stores and places like Home Depot will mix custom colors.
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    Acrylics are very easy to clean up. I use cheap window cleaner from the dollar store for this. When thinning with water, I always use distilled water. There is no telling what is in tap water that might react with the paint, especially if I use bottles and want to save the paint that is left over.
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    I price my item using the replacement cost of the materials used. Many other things go into the price calculation.
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    I have a two-stage compressor with a 30-gallon tank that I use most of the time. I also have a Harbor Freight Compressor that was given to me. Much to my surprise, the Habor Freight compressor works fine. I can't attest to its durability because I don't use it much. The larger two-stage compressor is almost 40 years old and can be used for many things besides airbrushes.
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    I have a large collection of airbrushes from cheap china ones to Made in USA Badger airbrushes. If I could only have one it would be the Badger 155 Anthem.
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    This should give you some ideas.
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    Cheap Chinese airbrushes are throwaways. If you break or bend a needle, you will discover that replacement parts are hard or impossible to get. If you find the parts, they may cost as much or more than a new airbrush.
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    I use window cleaner (aka Windex) for cleaning my airbrushes when spraying acrylic paint. The cheapest I can get from the dollar store.
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    Yes, when adequately thinned and using a larger tip size. Craft paints tend to have larger pigments. All airbrushes are not the same, and all paints are not the same. You have to experiment.
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    Have you considered not painting the edges?
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    At any given time we have 6-8 tissue boxes open.
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    I bought it used on eBay. I had some extra space on a shelf that needed a book.
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    I have a book of patterns that says you are not allowed to reproduce anything in the book for any reason and later tells you how to use a copy machine to reproduce the patterns.
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    I cut 2x4 with #3 and #5 reverse tooth blades. In my experience the chatter comes mostly for cutting to fast.
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    It seems simple to me. Don't do it.
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    I did a quick look around and didn't have any trouble finding a black only laser printer for under $100.
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    I have two printers. An Epson photo printer that has not been used in years. It is an inkjet, and it costs too much to operate. It got shelved when I did the math and figured out it was cheaper to have CVS print the occasional photo. The second is a Brother HL3170CDW color laser printer. I print everything with it, shipping and Address labels, patterns, packing slips, and targets. It would be nice to have a second or third tray, but they are costly. The last I checked, trays cost almost as much as the printer. I would like to have a dedicated label printer. However, the math does not work for my situation. It costs me less than a penny to print a shipping label, and my volume is low. Zebra has one that I liked and almost bought until I discovered it did not have a wired ethernet port.
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