Reply To: Ultrasonic Cleaner for Airbrushes

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By the way, this does not replace cleaning.  You should still give your components a wipe down to remove the obvious clutter and cleaning inside the tip is always wise.  This just ensures you do a more thorough job than you can by hand before putting it away at the end of the day.  I’d recommend putting it through a few cycles the first time you use it to let it “catch up”.  When you fish your parts out of the bath water will remain inside them.  I like to blow through anything I can to remove moisture and leave them out to dry somewhere ideally dust free between uses.  That’s probably overkill and a few hours – overnight should be enough.

I did encounter one new problem from using a sonic bath.  Inside the part of mine that connects to the pipe there is a small screw used to adjust pressure or something.  The vibrations slowly turned the screw over many cycles and my airbrush started playing up.  It took a while to work out what the problem was (And the help of people on this forum).  Ever since then I remove that part before anything goes in the bath.

In case this isn’t clear, break down your airbrush before sonicing it.  Only wash the parts that paint could get to.  I leave the spring out of the bath too.