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.

Airbrushery

This is both sides of a piece of MDF I spray on to when I've got paint left in my airbrush reservoir. There's no plan to any of this, it's just what feels good at the time.

The panel is about 600x250mm.

Airbrush Stands

My Badger Patriot, complete with cap-keeper
turned from a little bit of ash.

I designed a bunch of stands for my various airbrushes for 3d printing a while ago, and put the files up on Thingiverse.

Originally, I had all the stands mounted together on a single piece of wood (sapele).

Multi-brush stand... old and busted

However, that proved not to be ideal, as the brushes were a bit too cramped together. I seldom use more than two at a time, so the whole stand took up more space than is necessary. And finally, when my Badger Sotar 20-20 finally turned up after ten months of waiting and increasingly strident complaining, and I designed a stand for it as well, I would have to re-make the wooden plaque to accommodate the extra stand.

So instead I've made individual bases for each stand, out of some kwila, which is dense and heavy, and which provides a good stable base that won't easily be knocked around. Now I can just get out the brushes I want for any given job.