Airbrush Cleaning Jar

 

This is something I've been meaning to make for years, and have finally got around to doing. It's a jar for cleaning my airbrushes.

The jar itself is a big plastic peanut butter jar.

The black thing was designed in Blender and printed on my Ender 3. It has an inset ring in it that I've squished a bit of closed-cell foam into, and the foam has a hole cut into it that the head of the airbrush pushes into. It creates something of a seal around the airbrush head to minimize spray leakage.

I cut a matching hole in the lid of the jar and hot-glued the nozzle-sphincter to it, and drilled some little holes on the other side of the lid from it to release pressure while allowing a minimum of the spray to escape.

I can just load up the dirty airbrush with a solvent, jam it into the foam sphincter, and spray it through until it's clean. And there isn't a great cloud of aerosol solvent floating around my workroom.

Eventually, I'll have to empty it, but it will do quite a few rounds of cleaning before then.

Whorl Stone

 

Here's a little linocut I just finished. It's just about 90 x 80 mm.

The paper is nothing special; just 110gsm cartridge. The ink is Flint water-based black.

I didn't remember until I'd already started cutting that I hadn't finished flattening and sanding the lino, so there's some speckling apparent in the solid blacks. Ah well, I'm sure it won't be the last time I make that mistake.

Am I happy with it? Well, I'm never 100% satisfied with anything I make, but I will go this far: I've done worse, could be better.