For the new folks

[Sabreghost]

Hey all, this is my first post. Firstly, i gotta say this is one of the most helpful forums i have ever joined. I am a professional musician from australia, making a good living out of it. Enough that my wife is a lady of leisure, lol. She has her hobbies though, orchids and butterflies. Music was once a hobby for me, but now i need a new one. I bought a paasche vl kit, a few tubes of el cheapo acrylic tube paint, and got some advice from the guy i bought the kit off. he said to water down the paint to the consistency of milk, which i've done. after painting a skull( complete with splatters, smears, streaks and blobs) i went online to see what was out there(apart from what i saw on u-tube). I came accross this site, and joined up, and have already found a half dozen solutions to what i am doing wrong. from the online lessons, to advice from everyone here, i can't wait to get into learning how to AB. unfortunately my wife is asleep in the next room, and i borrowed an enormous compressor from a friend(it scares the hell out of me everytime it kicks in, lol- one of the problems creating squigly lines that should be straight). As soon as i get the hang of it(and mt wife is playing outside with her orchids) i will be spending a lot of time here i think
cheers everyone!

[cotto clay]

Originally Posted by Shad

Hello all.. I just found this site two days ago and have been waiting since until now to thank each and every one of you. This is the greatest site I've ever encountereed. Last night was my first run at my AB. Where I live I couldn't find any other paint beside Createx( I know that is not what was suggested but its the only thing I could find without a credit card) Anyways... I filtered the paint(after forgetting to) having decent success finally. about one hundred dots later my brush quit on me. I cleaned it out and and the tip of the needle (using Mr. Johnsons lessons which I printed off for easy refeerence) and it still wouldn't shoot any paint, water Fine, clean out bottle Fine, paint not Fine. I'm using the VL with the needle that it came to me in( three marks). My compressor setting at 25 psi. Can anyone tell me what to do or why it stopped? I don't know what to do. I won't touch it until someone can help me sort this problem out. Thank you all once again.

Shad

It sounds like the paint bottle is the problem, the first thing to check is the little air intake hole in the top of the bottle. If thats clogged with paint it wont work so poke a needle through it. If that doesnt work, check the part that plugs into the AB for clogs and the tube that goes into the bottle.
With Createx you might have more success with spraying at around 35-40 PSI.
Good Luck